Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reading the newsletter, and everyone is either squeaking and beeping with outrage or laughing at those who take it seriously. I do find offensive the charge that men become rapists after reading such drivel--that we cannot think without our testicles getting in the way. If that isn't sexist, let's scrap the term...
...must deal with the women who went to the party on Saturday, and who have continued to defend Pi Eta. The message of their words and actions are the most disturbing of this entire affair. As for the women themselves, it is clear that they have so internalized the sexist mores of society that they have developed extreme cases of self-hate. They claim that the reason they went to the party was that they knew the newsletter was "not intended to be taken seriously, and...does not represent the attitude of most of the members of the club." More...
That done, it seems necessary to examine the various reactions of the participants. The people who demonstrated outside the party last Saturday (most of whom are women) and who have kept up their frontal assault on the Pi, were justifiably appalled and upset by the brutal and sexist language used in the newsletter "parody" (according to most sources, previous newsletters make this one look like a passage from The Feminine Mystique.) But their response has been so varied, attacking sexism at the Pi at Harvard, in society in general, as well as bringing up the questions of the brutal rape...
...truly "courteous and considerate" and thus do not hold any of those naughty things in the newsletter as their true beliefs. This is one interpretation of the apparently civil treatment of women at the Pi. Another is that these men can be civil and violently sexist at the same time. The message that rings clearly out of this affair is that the surface liberality that minorities are accorded at Harvard and in society is merely a thin veneer which hides the unchanged prejudices of white, male America. If Jesse Jackson, with all his sensitivities about the problems of minorities...
...estimation of them, or are threatened with sexual violence men are forced to conform to "macho" models of brutality and insensitivity. The authors of the "Dissenting Opinion" state that perhaps when the Pi takes part in "actual sexism" punishment will be warranted. What could possibly be more sexist than the propogation of these kind of images of women and men, and the threat that poses...