Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Editorial Chair Joanna M. Weiss '94, who as theCrimson's clerk chaired Sunday's executive boardmeeting, said that while she feels Stoll displayed"extremely poor judgment at that time," he is notinherently sexist...
...worked with Ira very closely in the pastthree years--on special projects, on the summerCrimson--and have never found him to be sexist,"she said...
...preface, "are not those who are usually found beautiful . . . Funny noses, big mouths, teeth all crooked, hair in the ears -- I'm not at all against such things. Older people don't necessarily appear worse to me than younger ones." Of course, Dubuffet's nudes in the 1950s are sexist, as sexist as Rabelais -- those rosy-brown, squashed-flat, gross and scarily funny "Corps de Dames" that form such a spectacular counterpart to the women De Kooning was painting on the other side of the Atlantic at about the same time. But no moral nitpicker today could accuse Dubuffet...
Their indictment includes a list of sexist statements taken from the magazine. Some of Inside Edge, to be sure, is pretty atrocious. The article "How to Tell When a Woman Wants it Bad" advises men to treat the casual brush of an arm as a sure sign of foreplay: "An accident. Yeah, right. It's never an accident." Looks like sexism ... sounds like sexism. Yet the men behind Inside Edge vehemently insist that their magazine is not misogynistic. They say it's funny...
...gives Inside Edge too much credit. Peninsula is invidious because it is written intellectually. Its arguments, however disturbing, are stated logically and convincingly; its unreasonable agenda is couched in reasonable terms. Inside Edge editors claim simply to write a magazine that guys would like to read. Even the most sexist Inside Edge copy is far too vapid to pass for intelligent discourse...