Word: sexistence
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...says the turning point came during winter break of his sophomore year, when he came out to his grandparents--"sexist, racist, homophobic people," according to Thomas--in a mobile home park in Anaheim, Calif. His grandparents were horrified. And Thomas was glad...
Although he acknowledges that such an activity would be considered sexist today, he says for the Class of '42 things were different. Both women and men met at the Old Howard, Munson says...
Leonard said Henaghan "issued a sexist command"and referred to her as a "girl...
...them why, and they'll tell you: The clubs were racist and anti-Semitic as long as they could be. They have been sexist from day one. And they are violent...
...Whatever sexist attitudes men carry into medical school, they are intensified within the fraternity of physicians. "It's amazing how isolated doctors are," says Smith. "Training doesn't root out their biases and insensitivities. Instead, a subculture envelops them and reinforces each other's stereotypes of patients." A common mnemonic used in medical school to help identify women who develop gallstones is "fat, 40, with four kids." $ Says the author: "It took forever for me to see slender, unmarried women as candidates for gallbladder disease." Prejudiced and mistaken notions also can govern the treatment offered to black women, lesbians...