Word: womanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...view of the subject that made me take notice, but rather the familiar construction of her comments: As an X, I feel Y. Too often in academic discussions, I've heard students preface their comments this way. As a woman, I feel that Aristotle was sexist. As a white male, I feel that Malcolm X was a dangerous thinker. As an immigrant, I feel that U.S. immigration laws are unjust. My identity as an X dictates that I feel...
...social occasion, and I was having a casual chat with a staff person from one of the lvy League sister schools (not Harvard/Radcliffe). This woman mentioned, in passing, that the presidents of these colleges held regular meetings, and, among them, the Radcliffe president was regarded as mildly ridiculous because she had the title and the salary and came to the meetings but had no responsibility for admissions, instruction, discrimination, tuition, housing, campus crises or other badges of office...
...wake of Tuesday night's rape of a Harvard-affiliated woman in Byerly Hall, concerned employees raised questions yesterday about the building's security system, which they say has been broken for over a year...
...understand feminism from those who would turn it into a mindless and meaningless hysteria. Feminism has not, does not and will never claim that all women are automatically right. Feminism is, as the popular bumper sticker proclaims, "the radical notion that women are people." Feminism suggests that a woman's place in life is determined by each individual woman...
...Jones' story was garbage. Her legal fees were funded by a conservative, and, hence, more than likely anti-feminist institute. Her case was ultimately thrown out of court. She used the money earned by the scandal for cosmetic surgery on her nose. This sounds less and less like a woman victimized by the president and more and more a pawn in a political game. Given this, NOW would have no reason to get involved. To do so would do nothing for women's rights and would, instead, be playing directly into conservative hands...