Word: sexists
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...Senator, now standing for re-election, has been running into some mighty irritated women voters on the campaign trail. Many are still miffed over his treatment of Anita Hill during the Thomas hearings. Specter wanted to clear that up by making a commercial stating that he is not a sexist, but wiser heads on his campaign staff talked him out of it. On top of that, he's been getting no respect from potential voters watching JFK in Pennsylvania movie theaters. When it is mentioned in the film that a young Warren Commission lawyer named Arlen Specter dreamed...
...Times's prior insistence that it would fight the women's claims all the way. Indeed, the suit had become a huge source of embarassment for the renowned newspaper, which had until that point stood firmly as one of the great bastions of liberalism. Startlingly disparate salary figures and sexist private memos written by top Times executives, which were handed over to the plaintiffs by court decree, threatened ominously to bring the great edifice down. The media, of course, was more than willing to give the Times a taste of its own medicine and happily engaged in a feeding frenzy...
...harassment that persists in many precinct houses tempts female cops to try to blend in and be one of the boys. All too often that means enduring the lewd jokes transmitted over police-car radios and the sexist remarks in the halls. In most places it means wearing an uncomfortable uniform designed for a man, including bulletproof vests that have not been adapted to women's figures. The atmosphere is made worse because about 3% of supervisors over the rank of sergeant are women, in part owing to lack of seniority. Milwaukee police officer Kay Hanna remembers being reprimanded...
...reading of art. He is certainly willing to admit sociopolitical truths in his writing. He acknowledges in his essay. "The Erogenous Zone" that "the visual may play a more important role in the sexuality of men than women, but this is difficult to assess because of the extent of sexist traditions in modern image-making...
...officers, who have previously condemned the Bee, called the Cliff elitist and sexist and compared it to the all-male final clubs...