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WHAT'S ANOTHER WORD FOR SEXIST? As a vigilant guardian of feminist orthodoxy, the Coalition of Labor Union Women has released its eagerly awaited Hits and Ms.s awards for 1990. Among the top transgressors: Apple Computer. One of the firm's software programs has a thesaurus that offers only a few synonyms for woman, including "female partner in marriage, wife, lady and Mrs." But when it comes to the entry for man, the list runs on and on: "member of the human race, human being, body, creature, individual, life, mortal, party, person, soul, mankind, flesh, humanity, humankind . . ." What? No "higher...
Titled "Annihilation of Women Though Media and Pornography," Dines-Levi's lecture addressed the ways in which pornography desensitizes both men and women to sexist statements. Although she cited a wide array of studies to establish a connection between pornography, Dines-Levi said that the matter essentially came down to a question of common sense...
...recent trend throughout the U.S. toward restricting offensive speech on campuses is disturbing. Although racist, sexist and homophobic speech should be abhorrent to all, attempting to prohibit them is not an adequate solution...
...final fallacy underlying the staff position is that abhorrent ideas must always be driven into the light so they can be combatted. Personally, our primary interest is not necessarily seeing how racist, sexist and homophobic our classmates are. We would prefer to study in an academic environment where all groups feel safe to exchange a wide range of ideas...
...Among members of ARAC, for example, support for the mere existence of the military was wrong. The questions of the necessity of the military and of the possibility that Harvard students could change it from within were simply irrelevant. Many of the PC ideologues dismissed the military as homophobic, sexist, racist, classist, anti-intellectual and--God Forbid!--violent. Since the military is so clearly evil, we should not pay the least attention to its supporters...