Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attempt to prevent Charles from going hunting. This behavior is symptomatic of a person who, apart from being emotionally unstable, is unreasonably demanding of her spouse. Imagine if Charles had thrown himself down the stairs in an attempt to stop Diana from going to her gym. What sexist double standards we live by! CHRIS DWYER Bondi, Australia...
...many Harvard females get along fine with commonly-used terms that happen to end with the suffix "-man." For instance, no Harvard or Radcliffe women's athletic team uses gender-neutral terms, i.e., nobody says "person of defense" instead of "defenseman." The word "freshman" no longer has any sexist connotations...
...scabrously derogatory manner to men's assumed ineptitude in things domestic, notably cooking. Had a male commentator reported with the same dismissive derision that a woman was incompetent at checking the oil in her car, he would be decried, vilified, crucified and possibly emulsified for making such a sexist remark. I guess women do not like men in the kitchen any more than men like women in the boardroom. FRANK J. BRADLEY Dallas...
...right. Left-wing protests of pornography and "hate" speech, in general, helped legitimate growing right-wing censorship campaigns. Their targets differed--activists on the right focused on sex and AIDS education, the study of evolution, literature about homosexuality and changing gender roles, while the left focused on speech considered sexist or racist--but their guiding principles were the same...
...other papers. Still, you were baffled. "What really is an Ombudsperson?" you wondered. You rushed to the dictionary to uncover this SAT word long forgotten. There you were shocked to find only a listing for an obviously archaic word, ombudsman. You were disgusted. Noah Webster must have been a sexist...