Word: sexistence
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...present in a few individual members of the group. People who purport to be especially sensitive to the suffering caused by prejudice should be careful how they characterize any group of people. To orchestrate a widespread media campaign designed to represent hundreds of people as racist, sexist Nazis working in the tradition of those who would "engineer consent to genocide" indicates a moralistic opportunism rather than any appreciation of what the opposition to racism truly concerns. Surely the propositions SFTP holds about the class bias of sociobiologists are hypotheses about the real world to be tested like any others...
...deal with these issues. A number of American movies have re-evaluated the roles of men and women throughout the decade. The cycle began when Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge and Paul Mazursky's Blume in Love first used comedy to expose the hypocrisies of the bright but sexist American male. After the women's movement took hold, films like Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Mazursky's An Unmarried Woman went further by trying to spread a new, liberated feminine ideal to a mass audience. Since then, there has been...
Like all stars, she is a packaged commodity; if she stops selling, she gets tossed into the leftover rack. Rydell explores her relationships with Rudge, her grubby English manager (Alan Bates), with her sexist, drugged-up back-up band, and finally, with her voracious audiences. As long as Rose remains the archetypal star, both blessed and cursed with a great voice and an even greater need for love, the film succeeds...
...their attitude toward working with men. Molony says many women could get along with men in a much more relaxed situation when they were protesting together. But she adds, "One of the things that made me very feminist was being put off by very radical men who were more sexist than anyone else." Living in the same Houses with men helped alleviate the macho image many men harbored, but it did not dissolve it completely, she adds...
Nevertheless, one wonders what role mankind might be expected to play in any non-sexist order. Asked what help men might be to the new-woman's cause, Wittig answered, "Not much." Probably true...