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...Said Rossler: "It's important that the men's movement not be portrayed as antiwoman. Sexism has affected us as detrimentally as it has affected women." In fact, the women's movement seems to be as much model as bugbear to the wounded males. Like feminists, conventioners complained about sexist ads, including two showing a female pulling a male toward her with his tie. "The tie represents a sexist noose or perhaps a leash," said Fredric Hayward of Sacramento. The men celebrated small victories. In response to lobbying by a fathers' rights group, the city of Syracuse has agreed...
...three months, the students have been compiling a 220-page book entitled "How Harvard Rules," which promises to raise a few eyebrows. The $8 paperback, to be released in January, will critique and analyze the nation's oldest university, which publicists charge "shelters rampaging Cold Warriors, ferociously racist and sexist theoreticians in the social and natural sciences, and corporate apologists masquerading as 'value-free' academics...
...take exception: (1) that "women don't constitute a community like Blacks do;" and (2) that "courses defined as 'Women's Studies' are non-scholarly, partisan and more often than not, guts." Are members of the "intellectually enlightened" Harvard community expected to condone such beliefs that border on the sexist...
...Rape" have apparently done very little to change certain stigmas. Further, what is all the more frightening in this particular case is that I consider this friend to be a fairly enlightened and intelligent person. He is not some sort of neanderthal and has never shown himself to be sexist or racist or prejudiced in any way before. Our interpretive difference was subtle, yet very important...
...harried committee, facing a 1988 deadline, hopes to produce a revised hymnal that will offend no interest group among the liberal denomination's 9.2 million members. High on the agenda is eliminating any language that might be deemed sexist--not least because by the end of the century a projected 40% of Methodist clergy will be women. Thus God of Our Fathers is to become God of the Ages, and out go Harry Emerson Fosdick's rousing lines: "Grant us wisdom, Grant us courage,/ That we fail not man nor thee." In some cases, traditional texts have been retained...