Word: sexistence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, Feinstein prefers snide references to Wilson as just another boring male pol ("Change is more than exchanging one pinstripe suit for another in Sacramento"). Though sartorial satire by a man about a woman candidate would be regarded as sexist, Feinstein is getting away with it. The latest distracting dustup started two weeks ago, when Feinstein heckled Wilson about his poor Senate attendance record. Go back to Washington to help out in the government budget wrangle, she taunted him, and I'll suspend campaigning. Last week Wilson returned to the capital because of the deficit showdown. Feinstein cheerfully continued campaigning...
Members of the Radcliffe crew team are protesting the sexist treatment they say they received at a recent regatta...
...uproar came last week when USA Today football reporter Denise Tom was barred from the Cincinnati Bengals' locker room by coach Sam Wyche after a loss to the Seattle Seahawks. "I will not allow women to walk in on 50 naked men," said Wyche. Calling the coach's actions "sexist," USA Today sent a protest letter to the National Football League demanding enforcement of the league's 1985 policy of equal access to players for male and female journalists. Late last week N.F.L. Commissioner Paul Tagliabue announced that Wyche, who had violated league media-relations policy twice before, would...
Last fall, a Michigan law school student interviewed by representatives of Baker & McKenzie accused the firm of asking her irrelevant and sexist questions. A Michigan investigative committee later supported the student's allegations...
While we do not endorse either candidate, we find the staff's treatment of John Silber unfair and irrelevant. True, Silber has clumsily offended groups whose support he desperately needs to win the governorship. But in its rush to paint Silber as a backwards racist, sexist and anti-Semite, the staff fails to recognize that Silber's gratuitous comments are nothing more than the unpleasant biproducts of his "straight-shooting" personality and his inexperience with the mass media...