Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consider myself an ardent teminist, and at no time this past fall was I appalled or embarassed by the material in Biology 7b. I sometimes think that women who consider themselves activist feminists feel it a solemn duty to eradicate from their surroundings all things which they view as sexist. Jokes about sex are forbidden, especially in lecture, and even straight physiological information about the functioning of sexual organs is subject to criticism. It was very clear that some of the negative comments made about lecturers in Biology 7b were motivated out of prudery, under the guise of feminism...
...star--in fact, he is the only intelligent being in his book. Sometimes he's open with his conceit: "But I had guts, all right. Better to act modest though." More often he simply takes to demeaning all those around him. His professors are generally insulting, harsh, sexist, and self-satisfied. His fellow students are completely absorbed in their books, frustrated, awed, and for the most part heartless cowards. According to LeBaron, they aren't even interested in what they study...
...article claims that this year the Committee asked Debbie Jacobs. Harvard '81 why she had participated in the Take Back the Night March. That claim and the context in which it appears suggest that the Massachusetts Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee was both sexist and unsympathetic to the goals of the Take Back the Night March. Contrary to the article, the truth is that...
...McCarthy asked the question not because she is sexist, but because she lives near Harvard Yard, observed the March, and shared the marchers' concern for the safety of women. As it happens, Ms. Jacobs did not participate...
...said publishers' lists of unacceptable "sexist" terms were part of a 'ruthless Gestapo-like" censorship movement, but later defended her participation in the campaign to end violence and sex on television as an exercise of her First Amendment rights...