Word: sexists
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...person Institute of Politics' Student Advisory Committee are women, and Philips Brooks House Association only this year had its first woman president. Additionally, the notorious Final Clubs (though their independent status makes it difficult for the College to take action) continue to give Harvard's social scene a sexist twist...
...just wasn't our century. American women only got the vote in 1920 (and a rest room near the Senate chambers only in 1992). For most of the past 98 years, much of the world's female population has been voteless, voiceless, illiterate, ground down by toil and sexist restrictions. When I griped to my daughter about the shortage of our kind among the top 20 leaders, she sighed at my paleofeminist pique: "But, Mom, it's just the 20th century. You know, the bad old days...
...curators fear that her use of negative racial imagery, like over-sexed pickaninnies, perpetuates harmful stereotypes rather than subverting them. One established black artist, Betye Saar, even launched a letter campaign which challenged people in the art world to question whether they found Walker's work racist or sexist...
With so much left to our imagination, we grow nervous about what's going on in the silhouettes' shadows. Yet if we start to fill in the blanks, Walker engages us in the racist or sexist scenes we so badly wish to condemn...
...daring enough to be self-reflective. For many men, this will require seeing women's humanness, especially in a sexual context, as vividly as we see our own. It will require noticing and confronting the sexist and rape-conducive distortions of women as they're being fed to us. At the very least, we owe it to the brave Harvard women who have so silently picked up the pieces from their experiences and put their lives back together. And at the very least, we owe it to the women who, before the year is over, will have their lives torn...