Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have found many Southerners to be anti-intellectual, unchallenging, sexist and racist. I have struggled to feel comfortable with a society where racists threatened to blow up my grandparents' home because my grandfather helped desegregate the state university in the 1960s. I have struggled to accept a society where intelligent, aggressive women subvert their ambition and fire to be attractive to the men around them. I have struggled to cope with the fact that most of my high school classmates went on to perfectly good schools, joined perfectly good fraternities and sororities and are well on their way to alcoholism...
...Knowing the people who were on the committee,it is outrageous to accuse any of them of racistor sexist attitudes. The process was fully openand fair," said Pforzheimer University ProfessorSidney Verba '53, who chaired the searchcommittee...
...Hanson and Levin cases are vivid reminders that defense attorneys frequently try to portray female victims of sexual crimes as either sluts or teases. "Blaming the victim is a very sexist defense," says Kelli Conlin of the National Organization for Women. "It started with rape cases. The idea was 'She asked for it.' " In recent years, though, new rape-shield laws have excluded from trials evidence regarding a rape victim's sexual past, except any previous relationship with the alleged attacker...
...surprising, considering she began her career as literary wunderkind at "the Yale School" of criticism during the '70s, under mentors such as Derrida and de Man. She attacks former teachers and colleagues at the rival institution, with the exception of Derrida and de Man, for their blindness to sexist biases...
Well, I didn't. I felt instead that lumped under the same rubric were a number of cross-motives. People were demanding an end to anything from "date rape" to "this sexist shit" to "the patriarchy." Some were crying, "People unite" and others, insistently, "Women unite." I wondered how the men on the march felt about that. I wondered, also, how they felt about the polite request that they walk at the end of the procession, so that those women who felt the need to be separate could be. One cheer went, "Gay, straight; Black, white. Same struggle, same fight...