Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This sense that women are unwelcome pervades academic life. It begins with the sheer numbers and feeds on discriminatory treatment, either passing or studied, by male colleagues, supervisors or professors. The unease can take shape with a sexist joke or offensive innuendo; it takes root with a supervisor's comment--reported in the survey--of "Shut up, you bitch." When women faculty feel reluctant to speak their views in faculty meetings because of such remarks, or female students stop seeking advice from a sexist professor, their academic freedom is curtailed. Furthermore, their reticence then perpetuates stereotypes that women are academically...
...will surprise Mr. Grant to learn what is commonly known: The Pi is exclusive and diverse because it is sexist. All are not welcome. Only men are, That Mr. Grant overlooks this innocuous exception and claims that everyone is welcome to join night make one wonder about how he conceives of women. In what category of existence would he place women. so that it would he logical to make the statement "all are welcome." (Without another relevant, the word "all" must here refer to "people.") Does such thinking betray the true attitude of the Pi? And is it this attitude...
Sexual harassment may sometimes be the result of unintentional sexist behavior, but is also used to express hostility to a woman being "out of her place." Regardless of the motives, sexual harassment is a degrading and painful experience...
...woman to a new position is commonplace--though in the city of Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher, the matter-seems far less debatable than elsewhere. Rather, it neatly avoids the undertones that unavoidably creep into more extensive coverage. The wild enthusiasm over Sally Ride's flight wasn't sexist; but the most scrupulous editor couldn't avoid addressing the question of whether it was more difficult, somehow, for a woman to orbit the Earth; whether the milestone was womanhood's for evolving to that point, or NASA's for abandoning a benighted state of consciousness. The line between those...
...such as when Blacks in a St. Louis ghetto steal the station wagon's hubcaps while Chase asks for directions, or when the teenage daughter of some ridiculously hick relative brags that daddy says she is the best french kisser. These stereotypical characterizations--while occasionally funny in the racist, sexist world of the National Lampoon magazine--are completely gratuitous in a movie of this type...