Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harassers' motives and possible psychological makeup, they include chapters on female faculty members who do not feel themselves in a position to intervene on behalf of female students; on the politics of lodging and following through complaints, and on the difficulty of related problems such as "sexual hassle," or sexist and offensive remarks in the classroom, which do not threaton directly but reinforce women students' awareness of their lack of maneuvering power. Nevertheless, their basic insight rings out clearly: such confusion is no excuse to let harassment continue. Nor is the issue so confusing, as some college administrators like...
...contentions of these activists rest upon two shaky assumptions. The first is that pornography directly fosters a sexist or aggressive attitude towards women. Studies have attempted to demonstrate this, but the most they have been able to show is a correlation between these attitudes and pornography. Some have pointed out that the increasing availability of pornography has coincided, with a large increase in sexual assaults. But most experts believe that rapes were grossly under-reported in the past, so the real increase in the number of assaults can only be guessed at. Furthermore, the role of pornography is not well...
...these women to improve their own lives. But Friedan's criticism was aimed principally at middle class housewives. Later feminists recognized that women's problems are not merely self-imposed by a certain socioeconomic class of woman, but are endemic and imposed by a historically sexist society...
University disapproval of the newsletter, with luck, will inspire a strong anti-sexism in the same league as the Pi Eta Speakers Club, the majority makes an unfair and uninformed connection. In so far as the final clubs are sexist by virtue (or lack thereof) of not admitting women, the link is obvious. However, grouping the clubs together assumes that the final clubs house the same dangerous mentality about women as the Pi Eta, and it also lessens the offense itself...
...clubs are sexist by historical tradition, not by intentional malice--just as Harvard was a few years ago. Harvard has gradually been moving to the ideal of equality from men and women, and it is this example that must be followed. Final clubs do not admit women and therefore, by definition, are sexist, a gradual integration of women into the clubs is a good and necessary thing. However, now is not the time for those pseudo-idealists who profess a fundamental "opposition" to all the world's evils, to jump on the Pi Ett condemnation bandwagon in order to "expose...