Word: unisex
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...prices, at least, suggest an intuition that good times lie ahead-although, of course, Paris originals are always expensive. The frocks are romantically opulent, pointing away from unisex or any parody of male dress. Maybe women feel sufficiently liberated by now to allow themselves frankly "feminine" dress. But are women ready for such high costume-and would they feel comfortable in such operatic garb? At any rate, Saint Laurent seems to have decreed a turn away from politics (women a few years ago were wearing army shirts and cartridge belts) toward a different, Ballets Russes fantasy. The question is whether...
...Hamlet some day be forced to say "What a piece of work is people!") They predictably bridle at "he" or "his" used as pronouns when the sex of the antecedent is unspecified (everyone will get his comeuppance). The plural pronouns "they" and "their," they suggest, could become singular, unisex pronouns. Purists will howl, but the usage (everyone will get their comeuppance) is already lamentably widespread...
...amendment?"Equality of rights under law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex"?made many voters, especially women, nervous. The anti-ERA lobby, led by Phyllis Schlafly?a conspicuously liberated woman who at 51 is working for a law degree?conjured up the prospect of unisex public toilets, an end to alimony, women forced into duty as combat soldiers. In fact, the effects of the ERA are not known, and some constitutional lawyers argue that it would be better to rely on specific antidiscrimination laws rather than on an amendment that might have unpredictable social results...
...rights under law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex." But in recent months, ad hoc groups of traditionalist women sprang up in New York and New Jersey to denounce the proposed state equal rights amendments as antimarriage, anti-family and likely to lead to unisex toilets. Pamphlets emblazoned with the inevitable picture of the gaping shark from Jaws warned that equal rights for women could mean the "ruination of America," and lead to homosexual marriages, loss of widows' benefits and the mass drafting of women into the U.S. armed forces. The impassioned campaign caught...
Actually, the brevity and broad phrasing of the amendments seemed to feed suspicions of hidden meanings. Said State Senator Karen Burstein: "If someone came away believing there was even a 1-in-100 chance of unisex toilets, then she'd vote against ERA." Columbia Law Professor Ruth Ginsburg added: "A lot of women don't want to buy anything they don't know. It's fear of change...