Word: sexistence
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That thought comes close to the theory?less prevalent now than a few years ago?that women in positions of leadership would somehow humanize public affairs and gentle down the truculent, aggressive style practiced by men. It is a sexist notion, attributing superior virtues to women. As Smith's Jill Conway says, "There are lots of inhumane women in the world." (Two women who went far to prove that point were Lynette ["Squeaky"] Fromme and Sarah Jane Moore; both made attempts on the life of President Ford...
...Clyde Atkins last week ordered the stewardesses to vote again on the pact. He specifically enjoined the hostesses' leaders, who were accused of sabotaging the first balloting, from campaigning for rejection. Even so, the outcome may be close. Having been angered for years by National's "sexist" advertising ("I'm Barbara. Fly me."), the hostesses seem determined to strike National like it has never been struck before: at week's end they were within a few days of beating the 116-day walkout record set by National's striking ticket clerks...
...regard to those who oppose ordination of these eleven women. We can all sympathize with their frustration, but that is not the issue. Nor is the problem the irrregularity of their ordination, since the Church will probably validate their orders next year. The real issue is theological and not sexist, as they allege. The article left the impression that the problem lies in ingrained institutional prejudice when this is not the case at all. There are sizable segments within the Church who oppose the full ordination of women on Biblical and theological grounds; and regardless of the temper...
...nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear." Some may feel that Brownmiller places undue emphasis on this one manifestation of the subjugation of women. But rape is still the most extreme manifestation of sexist cultures; women will continue to be oppressed as long as they continue to be victims of sexual abuse--demeaned by those who attack them, demeaned by the society which doubts their word over the word of their male attackers, and demeaned by the world that insists they were born...
...addition the book, edited by Rabbi Chaim Stern of Chappaqua, N.Y., drops "thee" and "thou" in addressing the Deity (only "you" is now used) and downplays expressions like "our fathers," which are now deemed to be sexist. It also incorporates the words of moderns like Alfred North Whitehead and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and these lines from William Blake: "It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements,/ To hear the dog howl at the wintry door, the ox in the slaughter house moan;/ To see a god on every wind & a blessing on every blast...