Word: sexistence
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...intelligent female conversation around, for wives were generally little more than child-bearers and tea-servers. Kenji Mizoguchi, director of Utamaro and His Five--Women, (1946), is regarded as the women's champion among Japanese film directors, yet even he takes what in another context would be an extremely sexist attitude towards them. "He doesn't love me," says one of Utamaro's five women. "He loves women, all women; he wants to capture their souls." Like Utamaro the painter, Mizoguchi wants to capture their souls, to define their ephemeral charm and their intriguing, fascinating beauty. Mizoguchi loves his women...
...satisfactory until there is a 1:1 ratio of men to women throughout Harvard and Radcliffe. The Harvard-Radcliffe "non-merger" merger brought co-residential living; but far from assuaging the problems of uneven numbers of men and women, it highlighted the intolerable situation perpetuated by Harvard's sexist admissions policy...
...masculine singular pronoun when the subject is not necessarily male, for example, is considered to be blatantly sexist. Henry James' "We must grant the artist his subject, his idea ..." sounds as if the artist were always a man. Thus a search is under way for a set of sexless singular pronouns. A Women's Liberation lexicographer who styles herself Varda One has come up with ve, vis and ver. Others have suggested singularizing they, their and them to te, ter and tern. Someone has invented co, cos, co, which takes a pleasant form in the coself construction...
...Sexist attitudes toward women are more evident at the lower levels, among assistant editors and "gals Friday." Bright, well-educated young women may have an easier time than young men breaking into publishing, but they are often exploited for secretarial chores in ways that rarely apply to male beginners...
Both women have encountered difficulties and indignities because of their sex. For Billie Jean, sexist slights have often been compounded by tennis' traditional snootiness. In her first tournament, as a preteenager in Southern California, she was ordered out of a group picture because she was wearing shorts instead of a tennis dress. No one expects Robyn to wear a skirt while she is riding a horse, but her dressing facilities are inevitably second-rate; at Gulfstream Park, near Miami, she changes in the doctor's office...