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Word: sexists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...once embodied but has now rightly rejected. They are socially elitist, akin to the exclusive rich, old boys' clubs of days past. As the clubs are male-only and often create an uncomfortable environment for female guests (who, admittedly, enter the clubs of their own free will), they are sexist. One part of the Owl's new policy, which stipulates that at least one of a member's two guests must be female, is another example of that sexism. The College has chosen not to recognize final clubs because of their male-only status...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Closing Their Doors | 2/10/1999 | See Source »

...company--band, tech, and business--to women. Alumni say that just a decade later the Pudding show was known as one of the few communities on campus that was accepting of openly gay students. This clearly runs contrary to Johnson's claim that the Pudding show contains "sexist and homophobic discourse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hasty Pudding Theatricals Fair and Equal Organization | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...claiming an audience finds males in drag funny, but not females in drag. The humor arises from the supposed "lowering" of the male and from a ritualized disgust with male-male love. Examples of these prejudices abound in recent scripts, as do examples of racial prejudice, unshakably welded to sexist and homophobic discourse...

Author: By Matthew E. Johnson, | Title: Time to Put Women in Drag, Too | 12/10/1998 | See Source »

While we're at it, let's examine the strength of TFs in general, release the findings and see how the quality of teaching can be improved. Likewise, the discussion about and search for talented female professors should continue, and the sexist environment of the final clubs should be made better known to first-years...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Coming Back to Feminism | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...publication, or a student who stepped up to a microphone on Widener's steps to declare that a woman's place is in the home, or that left-handed students are unfit for Harvard? Would some in the Harvard community insist on silencing speech that they considered offensive, racist, sexist or homophobic...

Author: By Adam R. Kovacevich, | Title: Stifled Into Silence | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

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