Word: sexistence
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Consumer groups have cited some toys as being too sadistic: for example, a do-it-yourself guillotine set that is fortunately too small for a child's head. The New York chapter of the National Organization for Women denounced one toy as sexist: a semi-nude doll that is strapped to a platform while a pendulum dangles above her. For the first time, doctor play kits are selling better than nurse kits. Mothers are telling their daughters that they no longer have to settle for being a nurse; doctor kits get them off to a more liberated start...
...scattershot entertainment. As it traces the steps which lead poor Dick Nixon to blow up the world in the midst of the '72 elections (with a final Dr. Strangelove plot twist that the show's narrator brashly admits has been stolen from the film). Nixon! verges on the sexist, racist, and anti-Semitic--not to mention, its occasional lapses of taste. Of course, it's all meant in a spirit of fun (right? yes, right would I put you on?) and the Yiddish words get the biggest laughs of all. (Would somebody please tell me what's a Schwartz?) Even...
...condemn as dangerous and unscientific, the racist, sexist, and anti-working class theories of genetic inferiority propagated by R. Herrnstein, W. Schockley and A. Jensen. There is no scientific warrant for ascribing to genetic factors the oppressed conditions of classes and ethnic groups...
Some National stewardesses decided that the idea amounted to a personal rather than a commercial proposition, and was a blatant sexist pitch. Three of them on a Halloween flight from New York to Miami displayed a cardboard cutout of a wrinkled witch in boots and military-type jacket with a Fly Me button. "If the ads would just say, 'Fly with me,' " complained Stewardess Ilene Held, "we'd be asking people to fly as part of our airline. It's the live stuff that gets to men, that makes them think...
...second proposal, an effort to "integrate theory and action" called for "concerted efforts in the lectures and discussions of this course no longer to use sexist language." The proposal specifically called for a ban on the use of "Man," "Men" and masculine pronouns "to refer to all people...