Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tocqueville myself, but I'm not sure that a defense of the moneyed elite was what Alexis had in mind when he wrote his tome. The final clubs are wealthy, prejudicial associations with a long sexist and racist heritage. They are bastions of old-boy networking and prep-school traditionalism, with wealthy alumni now working at Merrill Lynch and the State Department who fund the clubs and their beautiful limited-access buildings. As Law Professor Alan Dershowitz says, "the final clubs are where Harvard students learn to discriminate...
...joined a final club because of the comaraderie. I went inactive because I believe that the same opportunities should be extended to the women of Harvard/Radcliffe College. By not doing so, the clubs--intentionally or unintentionally--perpetuate sexist stereotypes. Unfortunately, these views were by and large ignored in the article at the expense of constructive discussion...
...specifications: "This art should reflect | life in all its positive aspects (e.g., truth, justice, courage, liberty, etc.). It should engender feelings of well-being, hope, promise and such. It should not produce or reflect negative attitudes, political expressions, or feelings of futility. The art should respect sensitivities against sexual, sexist, race, ethnic or other related slurs . . . It should be forceful in style and manner; and be breathtaking in its beauty...
...also know this is not the case and that, in fact, some have probably already committed this crime. Let us assume, though, that "the guys we know" would never do such a thing. Somehow, this is not very comforting. Because rape is only the tip of the sexist iceberg. We all know about the paucity of women professors; that male students dominate section discussions; that many women have become anorexic and bulemic in an attempt to fit the model set by, yes, that Budweiser ad. It is easy to shrug these things off because all of us are elites...
...current program has a racist, sexist and imperialist bias," Katz said, noting that one-third of Stanford students are members of a non-Western ethnic background...