Word: sexistence
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While we sympathize with RUS’s concern that social life at Harvard is often anemic and even sexist, letting women into final clubs will do little to improve the lot of the average Harvard woman (or man). Indeed, having women in the clubs could make the Harvard social scene even more fragmented and insular. Instead of inviting all campus women for parties, the final clubs might simply have events for their own members, further restricting the number of students who ever make it past a final club’s doorstep. The problem with final clubs...
While there are an increasing number of female groups on campus, such as the new all-women social organization the Isis, the male clubs still represent “the old boys network” and the University’s elitist, sexist past, RUS members said. Getting women into final clubs is more of a statement than a solution to the problems that final clubs represent, Jackson said...
...person was female, he preferred that she be attractive and the wife of one of the writers, as he subscribed to the prevailing idea that women didn’t write first-rate literature. With only a few exceptions, female poets were turned away from the Grolier, often enduring sexist comments from the male poets who made passes at them...
...says Tanenhaus, a self-described feminist. “They might look at a bag of mine and say, ‘Look, this represents females as a soulless empty sack.’ But I don’t think it’s sexist, because [the bag] could be a really girly man’s legs after...
...fanaticism and, ultimately, desperate violence invites almost a directly opposing response: if men are savage brutes, controlled by their hormonal and emotional status and tempered only by women, then women are by nature incapable of anything in the realm of aggressiveness. Isn’t this just as blatantly sexist an assumption as the one Cohen displays...