Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before I saw So Fine, I tried to think up clever ways to describe what I was sure would be yet another tasteless sex comedy. How many ways are there to say dumb, unfunny, and sexist? I almost wished I had seen Bo's A Change of Seasons just so I could draw some comparisons...
...despite its impact, menstrual distress rarely has stirred medical interest. Some attribute the neglect to sexist bias by a male-dominated medical Establishment. Says Family Practitioner Penny Budoff of the State University of New York at Stony Brook: "Many physicians act as if pain is women's due and getting rid of it is almost sacrilegious." A more basic reason may be that doctors have been unable to explain the link between a bewildering array of physical and psychological problems and a normal physiological event. As a result, women have been urged to cope as best they can with...
...stripped of its violence in the 17th century, criticized in the 18th as unfair to stepmothers and sentimentalized by Disney in the 20th. Now Cinderella, and most of the major fairy tales, have attracted a set of critics who deride them as sexist...
Phelps is careful to avoid the word beautiful because she considers it sexist...
Once Angels was established, the producers toned down and then eliminated Charlie's sexist remarks and reduced both the S-M and indeed all sex to largely symbolic situations. It became fairly standard, for example, for one of the Angels to be trapped for long minutes in some burning building. The variety of threats seemed endless-the scalding steam bath caper, for one, or the cruise ship with the homicidal maniac aboard, or the time the face-lift farm was taken over by mobsters...