Word: sexistence
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These are small battles that she and her co-stars can often win. Overall it is hard to see how they can win the war. The show is inherently sexy and therefore, by some definitions, sexist. Says former Producer Rick Husky: "What we're talking about is a B exploitation movie, not even a B. We understood that we needed to exploit the sexuality of the three girls, and that's an obvious reason for its success." Indeed...
...alarming--as Brown-Beasley himself has noted--that these procedures--which provide Harvard such amazing latitude--are essentially part of the University's affirmative action plan. What besides the cumbersome appeal procedure is to prevent a racist or sexist supervisor, for example, from using the escape clause to justify abrogation of "progressive" discipline...
...delegates urged that women be admitted to the priesthood. One of the 520 women delegates seemed to speak for the meeting when she said that Catholicism has lost members who "no longer can believe in a church that discriminates against women." The meeting also appealed for an end to "sexist" language in liturgy and church documents, an enterprise that is currently engaging some Protestants and Jews (see following story...
Three years ago Cooperman decided that she could no longer tolerate the word man in her surname because of its sexist connotations. So she began using the name Cooperperson in her business and private life, explaining that it served as "a consciousness raiser." Soon friends were calling Ellen, who is divorced, and her child Brian (a nine-year-old male person) the Cooperpeople. But when her bank and credit-card companies steadfastly refused to list her as Cooperperson because it was not her legal name, she went to court to legitimize her name change. Her petition stated that Cooperperson "more...
Hubbard wants a bunch of women to go off to a closet to construct a reality. If we assume Hubbard's sexist bias that they would construct a different reality than a mixed group, then they would necessarily also come up with a lot of ideas that a mixed group could have shot down in a jiffy! What a way to blow time and energy! And what's preventing a woman from proposing ideas in a mixed group anyway...