Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watch the protest one of the SWATers called me "Fashionably apathetic." I walked away, but within a minute I realized the protester's rudeness. I returned to the rally, faced them, and bellowed: "Excuse me! Which one of you just called me 'Fashionably apathetic'?" The chanting stopped and the woman who had insulted me stepped forward. I explained to her that the remark was uncalled for, and that one would not gain support by insulting passers-by. The SWAT members weathered my comments until I said, "I disagree with what you're saying." Immediately a member initiated a chant again...
...disturbed by some SWAT members' behavior Saturday. The snide remark of my fashionable apathy strikes me as akin to the arrogance, condescension, and elitism that SWATters purport to protest. I hope this doesn't characterize all members of SWAT. I thank the woman who insulted me for hearing and acknowledging my complaint. I was surprised SWATters chanted while I explained myself--a group that expects others to hear their argument will not hear another. I was even more suprised that a group advocating civil rights tried to limit my freedom of speech...
...Fair Lady, Henry Higgins put the question in a bouncing lyric: "Why can't a woman . . . ((ta-ta-ta-dum)) . . . be more like a man?" Last week the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a major sex-discrimination case, Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, that touches on some further questions that Professor Higgins never got to. Can a woman be too much like a man, at least in the eyes of some male colleagues? And if her career suffers because she strikes them as gruff and hard-nosed, is she being penalized for qualities that might be treated as assets...
...Hopkins was hired as a manager in the Washington office of Price Waterhouse, the giant nationwide accounting firm. Four years later, she was nominated for promotion to partnership, the only woman among 88 candidates that year. She looked like a winner. Despite the demands that go with being the mother of three children, she had helped bring in between $34 million and $44 million in business to the firm and had billed more hours in the preceding year than any other candidate...
...like a man, or too feminine," says University of Miami law school professor Mary Coombs. Still, common sense would seem to rule out some costumes. Says dean Roger Abrams of the Nova University Center for the Study of Law in Fort Lauderdale: "I think neither a man nor a woman can be outright sexy and be an attorney." Wait until they hear that over...