Word: sexistence
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...response to Noah D. Oppenheim's column defending final clubs, I have but one question. What club is he punching? I'm just curious because I don't ever want to attend a party he might be a part of. I've read his "offensively arrogant," sexist opinions for some time now. If I were "confined [and] pumped full of alcohol," I might feel compelled to "find an easy target to eradicate injustice...
...behalf of women sports fans everywhere, I object to Daniel Habib's sexist and insulting depiction of the relationship between men, women and sports (Opinion, Oct. 2). As I initially glanced at Habib's headline and first few paragraphs, I smiled with recognition. I, too, have fallen victim to the dangerously time-consuming condition of baseball playoff fever, this year and every year. Habib dropped the ball, however, when he embraced stereotypes of sports fans as exclusively male and women as sexual objects competing with sports for men's attention...
...those who think that if we make someone say "Chinese-American," we can sensitize them to the plight of hyphenated Americans. Putting terms in others' mouths does not change the way they think. People who push to de-gender "chairman" into "chair-human-being" to make people less sexist are going to find their action does not change political attitudes. Because most proponents of political correctness use this "backwards conditional" too often, critics fairly call this policy mind control. Real political correctness doesn't try to brainwash people, but only targets those who think that they do not have...
COURTNEY "GIMME" LOVE AGE: 33 OCCUPATION: Singer, glamorized grungess BEST PUNCH: Said it was "silly and sexist" that Billy Corgan was being given so much credit for his work on her band Hole's latest album, Celebrity Skin...
...easy to interpret. But not easy to read. There is a flavor of dejection and hopelessness that leaves a bitter aftertaste, rendering some of the stories painful to get through. While the heavy reliance on interviews give The Unknown City a realistic outlook, it presents astonishing racial and sexist stereotypes in the process. As Buffalo experienced a 21 percent jump in blue collar unemployment from 1960 to 1990, interviewees search for someone to blame and inevitably point their fingers at the wrong sources. We hear people attribute their own unemployment to minorities, welfare recipients, women entering the workforce--almost anything...