Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sally Frank, a Princeton grad who has spearheaded the campus-wide anti-sexist drive aimed at making club membership co-ed, last week reached an out-of-court agreement with the Cottage Club. Earlier this month, Cottage decided to admit women for the first time in its 100-year history in order to comply with a ruling of the state's civil rights agency...
...statement of an all too common position on sexism in American society. Excusing SI because "they've just given us what we asked for" expressed a resignation that cannot remain unopposed. Those of us who care about equality cannot condone a mass media that perpetuates the attitudes of a sexist society...
...Dartmouth tries to admit people whom they feel will be politically apathetic," Menon says. He charges that the college, and especially its deep-seated fraternity system, perpetuates sexist, homophobic, and racist ideas with a "massive indoctrination program...
Sure, compared to Screw magazine and the underground porn film industry which sometimes gets its "talent" by kidnapping, drugging, and then raping women on film, any mention of SI as "sexist" or "harmful" can be seen only as misplaced zeal, making the mag a victim of the anger and resentment it never imagined it would engender. And there are those who will find SI's title, "Ornaments of Society", a lighthearted, self-conscious joke--a joke on all who would take it seriousy as anything other than a shot of midwinter warmth, not to mention an ad-revenue extravaganza...
...that some of its suits resemble bottle caps, Sports Illustrated has been villified for exploiting women and for being sexist...