Word: sexistence
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...reading the newsletter, and everyone is either squeaking and beeping with outrage or laughing at those who take it seriously. I do find offensive the charge that men become rapists after reading such drivel--that we cannot think without our testicles getting in the way. If that isn't sexist, let's scrap the term...
That done, it seems necessary to examine the various reactions of the participants. The people who demonstrated outside the party last Saturday (most of whom are women) and who have kept up their frontal assault on the Pi, were justifiably appalled and upset by the brutal and sexist language used in the newsletter "parody" (according to most sources, previous newsletters make this one look like a passage from The Feminine Mystique.) But their response has been so varied, attacking sexism at the Pi at Harvard, in society in general, as well as bringing up the questions of the brutal rape...
Central to understanding the intricacy and power of sexist attitudes is the relation of public words and images to concrete actions harming women. Students have shown correlation between pornography and rape, and it seems obvious that the constant emphasis placed on an objectified vision of women's sexuality and on women's supposed passivity and masochism, in the media and elsewhere, do much to shape prevailing attitudes wherein sex is expressed as violence and women are seen as the willing victims. To say, then, that the statements in the Pi Eta newsletter are merely, in the words of a Crimson...
...estimation of them, or are threatened with sexual violence men are forced to conform to "macho" models of brutality and insensitivity. The authors of the "Dissenting Opinion" state that perhaps when the Pi takes part in "actual sexism" punishment will be warranted. What could possibly be more sexist than the propogation of these kind of images of women and men, and the threat that poses...
...picket line has dispersed, we fear that the Pi Eta will become just another isolated incident. But we cannot, and should not, rest easy, secure in the belief that an injustice has been exposed and the problem solved. We are all still guilty of more subtle manifestations of sexist views, which regard women as objects to be valued and given meaning...