Word: sexistence
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...move was not sexist. It was simply part of the notion that all life's problems could best be corrected through technology. In difficult births, a midwife was clearly no match for a trained obstetrician, often backed by hospital facilities. In the U.S. at least, a steady shift to doctor, and then doctor-plus-hospital deliveries soon threatened to turn midwifery into a lost art, and in many states an outlawed one. Old-fashioned "granny" midwifery is still in decline. But delivery by professional nurses and trained lay midwives is now becoming more popular in the U.S., though...
...failed to follow through, the perplexed commission did not decide officially whether a ladies' clothing store has the right to refuse a man permission to try on its merchandise on the premises. Questions: Can anyone in the real world take such an issue seriously? Should the drive against sexist discrimination lead to the negation of all social differentiations between the sexes? No was the answer hinted at in Portland, Ore., by the civil rights division of the state labor department; the division informed a worried bar owner that, well, yes, he was within his rights in refusing to allow...
...chronically overweight. Surprisingly, as though a fighting force no longer retained the right to prescribe fitness standards, the Corps backed down and reinstated them. Many such cases clearly fall beyond the frontier of the ridiculous. It is amazing, if laughable, that a young woman in New York City charged sexist discrimination when the Yankees turned her down for a job-bat girl-that would have required her presence in the men's locker room. And where, if anywhere, are the merits of the argument advanced by the lefthanded postal clerk in Kentucky who charged that the U.S. Postal Service...
...whether its purpose is malign or not. Exclusive societies of professionals (lawyers, doctors, engineers) exist for perfectly decent reasons. And certain groupings of artists for different decent aims. Yet, federal funds were briefly withheld from a Connecticut school on the ground that its boys' choir, by existing, encouraged sexist discrimination-and never mind the unique musical reasons why boys have always been assembled into singing groups. Government bureaucrats looked ridiculous in that instance because of their failure to admit a common-sense truth: some exclusivity-by race, sex, color and creed as well as by calling-arises...
...result, the dialogue in Les Sauvages is not tight enough, the chase scenes ramble on and on and the characters seem to be thrown together rather than playing off each other for maximum comic peaks. More disappointing, however, is the fact that Rappeneau has failed to correct the sexist treatment of women so common in such comedies. Embodied in such catch-all phrases as "charming" or "crazy" lies a blatant sexist attitude which suggests that women wearing nothing but loosely buttoned men's shirts three sizes too large for them, or women who irresponsibly knock over lamps, smash holes...