Word: sexistence
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...Scary Thing. Black businesswomen often contend that the toughest prejudice that they face is not racist but sexist. Rosanna Wright, 30, president of Wright-Edlen Advertising Inc. in Los Angeles, takes the most optimistic view. "White men find it easier to work with a black woman than with a black man," she says. "They don't expect women to succeed, so they figure that they might as well help us along. Still, it's a struggle." Adds Shirley Barnes Kulunda, an account executive with Manhattan's J. Walter Thompson ad agency: "When white businessmen look...
Bella Abzug might dismiss that last part as sexist condescension, but then again she might not. For all her rhinoceros qualities, she is deeply feminine (pace, Women's Lib) and, as former Campaign Manager Doug Ireland says, "vulnerable as a lady." She recently withstood withering political satire at a correspondents' dinner but burst into tears when someone mocked her robust figure. Arthur Goldberg is said to have won her over once by remarking that her pictures did not do her justice...
...order, one could with some justice blame women for passively tolerating that violence, since for some time now they have constituted more than half of the electorate. To imply that they are more humane and peace-loving than men is to make not only a dubious claim but a sexist...
...pathetic. Any man who has to get his kicks by displaying himself in front of a bunch of weary, bleary-eyed Radcliffe girls must first find himself in pretty desperate straits. But ideologically, the issue is even more alarming. For the moment, consider it an act of sexist chutzpah and listen to the remaining evidence...
...Radcliffe girls may be privileged enough to experience all Sybil, electrifying confrontations in one fun-filled morning. All Radcliffe girls can check off at least a few and elaborate on them. But what is absolutely vital to every legitimately sexist street confrontation, is that the women must never feel as though she is being singled out for her individuality, her good spirits, or her charm. A street confrontation is never personal; it is always, in Buber's terms, and I-It relationship, never I-Thou. The woman must always be made to feel like an object under appraisal. Slim...