Word: sexists
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...support we are all going to need, was evidenced in the article in the magazine on mothers and their sons. It quoted a dozen women, all feminists, agonizing over the question of how to raise their sons. The women despaired of being able to counteract the influence of a sexist society, and were afraid that raising their sons to be gentle and sensitive would expose them to the ridicule of their more macho playmates...
...they would run were so damn complicated--the prices, times, and length of programs varied as randomly as the images in an avant-garde film. This, in fact, is what they tend to show--Off the Wall sees itself as an alternative moviehouse, showing shorts, experimental films video, non-sexist and non-violent film. Now they've changed to showing programs for longer stretches, and the program of shorts they're running now is there is their kick-off flick. Short films by Lindsey Anderson (If, O Lucky Man!), by Mel Brooks, by Roman Polanski, Brian DePalma, Truffaut, Godard...
...male/female admissions quota. ("I don't think it would be realistic or even necessarily fair," she says.) But still she is not totally immune to doubts shared by those who claim that equal access--Harvard style--is not all it is cracked up to be, that sexist attitudes will continue to pervade the admissions process. "Sometimes I wonder," she says, "Am I kidding myself, are there really scoundrels around who're going to undermine the whole thing...
Korda's only previous book, published in 1973, was called Male Chauvinism! How It Works. He dreads being thought a sexist, but occasionally has difficulty with the notion that women might become powerful. "Any job a woman does is downgraded the moment she has proved she can do it," he remarks airily. He adds that "if a woman were elected President and chose a male Vice President, we would doubtless see the Vice Presidency transformed into a position of serious responsibility and power, while the Presidency was downgraded until the President and Vice President could be treated...
Politically, young lesbians are facing an identity crisis. They feel torn between the gay liberation movement, which they find male-dominated and sexist, and the feminist movement, which often seems embarrassed by them...