Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST WEEK, Jean kilbourne brought her now-famous slide show "The Naked Truth: Advertising's Image of Women" back to Harvard. In it, she shows how advertising's sexist imagery systematically dehumanizes women...
...some merit. Advertisers want to sell products, and therefore they perpetuate the myth that women can achieve happiness only by being objects of beauty, by adorning themselves with every type of jewelry, clothing and make-up imaginable. As long as the thirst for the almighty buck remains unquenched, this sexist treatment will continue...
...Said Rossler: "It's important that the men's movement not be portrayed as antiwoman. Sexism has affected us as detrimentally as it has affected women." In fact, the women's movement seems to be as much model as bugbear to the wounded males. Like feminists, conventioners complained about sexist ads, including two showing a female pulling a male toward her with his tie. "The tie represents a sexist noose or perhaps a leash," said Fredric Hayward of Sacramento. The men celebrated small victories. In response to lobbying by a fathers' rights group, the city of Syracuse has agreed...
...three months, the students have been compiling a 220-page book entitled "How Harvard Rules," which promises to raise a few eyebrows. The $8 paperback, to be released in January, will critique and analyze the nation's oldest university, which publicists charge "shelters rampaging Cold Warriors, ferociously racist and sexist theoreticians in the social and natural sciences, and corporate apologists masquerading as 'value-free' academics...
...Rape" have apparently done very little to change certain stigmas. Further, what is all the more frightening in this particular case is that I consider this friend to be a fairly enlightened and intelligent person. He is not some sort of neanderthal and has never shown himself to be sexist or racist or prejudiced in any way before. Our interpretive difference was subtle, yet very important...