Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Union leaders have portrayed a sexist Harvardadministration with a patronizing attitude towardwomen. "This struggle centers on sex...discrimination," union leaders said at a rallylast month. "This negotiation is a test of theUniversity community's commitment to real equalityfor women...
...Byron White, John Paul Stevens and Harry Blackmun -- took a different approach, attempting to find a way of accommodating so-called hate-crime laws that are drawn more narrowly. Left in doubt were hundreds of campus speech codes and bias-crime statutes throughout the country aimed at racist and sexist conduct...
Political correctness has invaded space! nasa and the EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY have buckled under fussbudget accusations that Buck Rogers terminology is sexist. As a result, NASA will no longer refer to "manned" flights but will describe the missions as "habitated" and "unhabitated," or "crewed" and "uncrewed." Says a nasa spokesman: "We have been ordered to delete any reference by sex, on the grounds that 'manned' flight is crude and 'crewed' is p.c." Even so, some sociologists are still not satisfied. They prefer "space flight by human beings." Female astronauts find these linguistic aerobics foolish. Says one: "Common sense...
Other tracks deal with child abuse and drive-by shootings, and there are none of the patently sexist raps of earlier years...
...Most religions are sexist, racist andhomophobic," says Dubowski, "and it's only in thiscentury that that has changed...