Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kilson denied the charge but admitted kissing her on the forehead as a spontaneous gesture of affection. He was formally reprimanded, the first known action in a sexual harassment case at the university. Said his accuser, Helen Sahadi York of Brooklyn: "I just saw him as patronizing and somewhat sexist-he calls every woman a gal-then it was very obvious when he kissed me." York insists the kiss was "psychologically damaging in itself," and registered her complaint "out of feminist consciousness and to test the system. I think it's very important that a sexist act receive public...
...Tooby's characterization of our depiction of hundreds of sociobiologists as "racist, sexist Nazis" is simply untrue and indicates that he has never read our literature or heard us speak. This might account for many of his other mistaken impressions of our position as well. As Nature (Nov. 22, 1979) noted in a full-page article about our forum: "Members of the Group (SftP) emphasized that they were not branding all those who write about sociobiology as extremists--but were drawing attention to the potentially dangerous connections between ideas expressed by scientists and the social and political climate in which...