Word: sexistence
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...liberal is a self-conscious awareness. It means seating two blacks at the head table when there are only a handful of their brothers among the 300 paying guests. It means not eating your salad until someone announces that it is made from Union lettuce. It means hissing sexist speakers. Or, as the post- Love Story joke goes, being a liberal means always having to say you're sorry...
...fairness, Mailer transcends his sexist prejudices and does quite a job on Sister Kate, a beautiful and sensitive one perhaps, but nevertheless, a job. He hammers away at the "flatiron" of her mind, calls her to task for slight flaws and gross insensitives in her argument...
...Radcliffe and Harvard students must support the Women's Center, not merely because, in this case, a police bust is so abhorrent, but because by doing so we recognize that the women's concerns are our concerns. We must come to terms with the implications of living in a sexist society, implications that every one of us faces every day of our lives...
...their science and their art. And on the radios, rock stars singing about fucking their totally dehumanized (except for maybe how they look) girlfriends; and the women singing mostly about loving their men, or being lonely for men. But both the culture and the counter culture are entirely sexist in nature, and male-created, male-produced, male-dominated. And then there's advertising, which sets up "ideal" images of people who want and need and use the kinds of things that capitalism produces-things that don't fulfill our real needs, but feed false, alien needs and wants; the artificial...
...what kind of progressive facade exists, your personal lives are just as fucked over by men as any other woman's. Being "bright" becomes another way of being attractive to men. Radcliffe women, privileged guests at this male institution whose education is outrageously irrelevant to women, have a whole sexist Radcliffe mythology-beginning with the competition with other women to get admitted here, believing themselves to be without the problems of other women because of money, class, education, intelligence, expectations of satisfying jobs, probably being able to afford to pay other women to take care of their children, Mrs. Bunting...