Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make love to get a good beat." Washington's 4,200-member police department includes 333 women, about half of whom are assigned to patrol duty with men. No formal complaints have been filed, but D.C. Councilwoman Willie Hardy is investigating several verbal charges of sexual harassment. Though the U.S. Attorney's office has dropped the case for lack of evidence, the police department is investigating the alleged rape of a woman cop by a sergeant during a stakeout of an office building. All of which suggests that the life of a female on a big-city force...
...EQUALITY: Are Women Really for It? No, says Rutgers Anthropologist Lionel Tiger. His new book Women in the Kibbutz (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $10.95), written with Israeli Anthropologist Joseph Shepher, argues that traditional sex patterns are so strong they have even overwhelmed the declared ideology of sexual equality in Israel's rural collectives...
...during the 1770s saints were scarcely visible and holiness was rare. Some good and heroic activities were performed by frail, errant and often irreligious people. Certainly, multitudes of decent folk led conventionally moral lives. But a second look at the past will be jolting to those who think that sexual waywardness and permissiveness are recent inventions. Public figures could keep mistresses and acknowledge their illegitimate children-as Benjamin Franklin did-without losing their good names or even their reputations as moralists. George Washington had to chase Philadelphia prostitutes from Valley Forge. In New York 500 "ladies of pleasure" kept lodgings...
...ENEMY. Never mind all those smooth-talking partisans of "men's liberation" joyously chanting "Oppressors, arise and recognize your own oppression!," fresh from their discovery that men as well as women suffer from rigid sexual stereotyping. No use trying to pin the blame on some anonymous entity called "the system" which makes both sexes squirm unhappily--not even if the system turns to be none other than that ogre capitalism. After all, Marxist theory may say one thing, but in practice socialist countries still uphold the nuclear family and discriminate against women. Every man--socialist or capitalist--is a sexist...
...even more to the point. In the first place, it is nonsense for men to say they have nothing to lose from a movement dedicated to eradicating male privilege. Men are the enemy, after all. Furthermore, males who proudly declaim their own "liberation"--meaning their rejection of sexual stereotypes--stumble noticeably between theory and practice, especially when practice involves concrete sacrifices. "Most women find out that a little bit of crying does not root out the deeply embedded patriarch," the Sourcebook comments dryly. This is not to say that men can never be legitimate feminists--a group...