Word: sexistence
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...stripped of its violence in the 17th century, criticized in the 18th as unfair to stepmothers and sentimentalized by Disney in the 20th. Now Cinderella, and most of the major fairy tales, have attracted a set of critics who deride them as sexist...
Phelps is careful to avoid the word beautiful because she considers it sexist...
Once Angels was established, the producers toned down and then eliminated Charlie's sexist remarks and reduced both the S-M and indeed all sex to largely symbolic situations. It became fairly standard, for example, for one of the Angels to be trapped for long minutes in some burning building. The variety of threats seemed endless-the scalding steam bath caper, for one, or the cruise ship with the homicidal maniac aboard, or the time the face-lift farm was taken over by mobsters...
...consider myself an ardent teminist, and at no time this past fall was I appalled or embarassed by the material in Biology 7b. I sometimes think that women who consider themselves activist feminists feel it a solemn duty to eradicate from their surroundings all things which they view as sexist. Jokes about sex are forbidden, especially in lecture, and even straight physiological information about the functioning of sexual organs is subject to criticism. It was very clear that some of the negative comments made about lecturers in Biology 7b were motivated out of prudery, under the guise of feminism...
...star--in fact, he is the only intelligent being in his book. Sometimes he's open with his conceit: "But I had guts, all right. Better to act modest though." More often he simply takes to demeaning all those around him. His professors are generally insulting, harsh, sexist, and self-satisfied. His fellow students are completely absorbed in their books, frustrated, awed, and for the most part heartless cowards. According to LeBaron, they aren't even interested in what they study...