Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chanel advertisement for lipstick is a particularly blatant example of the publicity exploitative, sexist advertising practices that make profits by perpetuating sexually submissive images of women. Chanel, an international corporation, helps set standards for female perfection, nationally and internationally. The priority is global profit at the expense of an enlightened world attitude toward women. The public female ideal, which becomes internalized as private ideal as well, to be emulated is a sexually submissive one. The healthy development of women as individuals and the healthy development of society as a cooperative community of equals will continue to be stunted so long...
Whereas many agree that the ad is offensive, overtly sexual, and in poor taste, it is not intuitively obvious to some why the ad is sexist. There are two reasons why it is sexist. First, women are objectified in order to sell products. Second, implicit in the Chanel ad is not only that women must use cosmetic products to be sexually appealing, but that they must also perform the appropriate acts. The lipstick perched between lip-sticked lips symbolically links the two ideas of sex appeal and of unequal sexual (and other) status. The cultural norm of female beauty allows...
...ratio of tenured women faculty at Harvard to men is "abominable," Millett said, adding, "Harvard women are a classic case of being assimilated and smothered." Students at Harvard must refuse to be diminished, minimalized, and colonized by sexist practices, Millett urged...
...service, the Teletype technician was given an "administrative discharge" even though her enlistment had nine more months to run. Would the Marines be just as tough in the case of a male who appeared in, say, a Playgirl centerfold? Yessir, said a corps spokesman, "We're not sexist...
...where will it all end? Among the hundred or so complaints received by a Government council monitoring sexual harassment on campus are several demands that professors be punished for "sexist" teasing and joking...