Word: sexistence
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OPPRESSION IS A difficult subject, particularly when the oppressors are so often unaware of their oppressive actions. Unfortunately, it's often easy for rallying victims to become oppressors themselves. In Karen DeCrow's Sexist Justice, reverse sexism often tarnishes a basically bright and accurate description of legal sexism--the kind that is written into the law--in the United States...
DeCrow is a lawyer. Her book is well-researched; in fact, it is a good compilation of those legal inequities which negatively affect women. But it is a poor representation of feminist philosophy. The book is overtly sexist. Men are hate objects...
...Sexist Justice does give a fairly accurate picture of the problem women encounter in obtaining good jobs, maternity leaves, abortions, and their own names--in short, equal rights. One of the most outrageous tyrannies waged against women in DeCrow's book is the difficulty of obtaining credit. In many instances where a husband and wife both work, the couple applying for a mortgage is not allowed to include the wife's income in the application, particularly in cases where the woman is of childbearing age. In order to count the income, many women have been told by banks...
...previous criticism of Morrissey and tempered its support for Allen. It cut off funds for the padlocked the offices of the campus newspaper, which had continued to protest the prospective firing of Allen and at least nine other faculty members. The paper had also alleged racist and sexist administrative policies...
...community which allows patronage inevitably prolongs injustice, and permits subtle racism and sexism, despite any anti-sexist or anti-racist beliefs the community may hold. It was against just such a system that the progressive reforms of the sixties were aimed. On the University level, the form these reforms took was the affirmative action program, which requires that before any appointment is made, a through search must be held for those normally excluded from the selection process. Those normally excluded, not surprisingly, turn out to be women, blacks and other minority group members...