Word: sexistence
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...past that a woman President would bring the millennium: her explicitly feminine qualities would gentle the militaristic impulse, introduce new compassion to such fields as health care, housing and education, and render government deeply humane. But many theoreticians of Women's Liberation think that that argument carries a sexist seed. Says Gloria Steinem: "The truth probably is that women are not more moral, they are only uncorrupted by power...
...Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene-though not too often their best work. Playboy interviews, alertly conducted with subjects worth talking to-Saul Alinsky, Charles Evers-are the magazine's quality product. But they seem to belong to another world: the real one. Playboy, alas, has become the voice of sexist Middle America, and Hefner its Archie Bunker. When Playboy ventures into the '70s, it is with tokenism -a modest amount of pubic hair on his Playmate and four-letter words in his prose...
...jargon spawned by the liberationists has already moved into the vernacular. Expressions such as "male chauvinist pig (MCP)," "bra burner," "consciousness raising," "sex role," "role model," "sexist" and "sexism," "sister," "sisterhood" and "machismo" are now in common use, even among precocious preteen-agers. No cocktail party can be considered top drawer without at least one reference to the "myth of the vaginal orgasm" or to some "phallustine" (an MCP philistine). But some women want more. The language, they say, reflects centuries of male dominance, and is loaded with male chauvinist piggisms that must be thoroughly rooted...
...complaint that the Zorach nude is sexist. Levine responded. "This supplicant woman is not exactly the thing to have at Radcliffe," but the Pepper sculpture can hardly be accused of prejudiced representation of the feminine form. And the fact that it almost blends with the wall forces one to look at other corners of the building (forces one to engage oneself in the environment) to see whether the piece is unique, and it adds a pleasant lilt to the bottom of the corner as the steel broadens and folds outward from the wall...
...thinking is, I confess, an example of sexist anti-piggism. Alan Helmert Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature