Word: sexistence
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...narrow vision of the function of the Undergraduate Council and the role of its chairman. His decision is a symptom of all that is wrong with the council and with the way the community views it. Second, for the leader of the student government to identify himself with a sexist and elitist organization is an affirmation of values that we believe are anti-thetical to this community...
This is no way to imply approval of the final clubs. They were rightly dissociated from Harvard because of sexist and discriminatory policies. The undergraduate community would be a better place without the clubs. Their very existence is a sad commentary upon Harvard-Radcliffe student life. I deplore the decision by Richard Eisert (or anyone else, for that matter) to join a final club. But that does not provide a basis to judge his ability as chair of the council. Gina Cattalini '87 President, Radcliffe Union of Students
LAST WEEK, Jean kilbourne brought her now-famous slide show "The Naked Truth: Advertising's Image of Women" back to Harvard. In it, she shows how advertising's sexist imagery systematically dehumanizes women...
...some merit. Advertisers want to sell products, and therefore they perpetuate the myth that women can achieve happiness only by being objects of beauty, by adorning themselves with every type of jewelry, clothing and make-up imaginable. As long as the thirst for the almighty buck remains unquenched, this sexist treatment will continue...
...sexist advertising, or any other problem facing capitalism, is to be combated, Americans must become more committed to political activism. Surely the first step is to recognize that indifference, not big government, is society's greatest economic enemy...