Word: womankind
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Much of Western opposition to homosexuality is based on Judeo-Christian teachings, particularly biblical prohibitions ("Thou shall not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is an abomination"). Laws based strictly on religious injunctions are unconstitutional unless they serve a compelling secular purpose. In the case of antihomosexual statutes, the social goals are vague and difficult to pinpoint but real to most people. Some law writers say such statutes preserve the American family concept. Others suggest that they guarantee continued propagation of the species. Still others say the goal is discouragement of promiscuity, or the adherence to a philosophical-moralistic...
Charlie's Angels: the show is yet another human sacrifice to the almighty god Nielsen and a giant step backward for womankind...
...wanted to give meaning to my own time, to be the unattainable luring love that drives men on, the angel of light, the best of the universe made womankind, the living sacrifice, the end! Shit." −Carla (in Kennedy's Children...
...liberation from Sonny is a personal triumph, but it carries no ideological example for the rest of womankind, so far as Cher can see. As for being a sex symbol for males, that too is mostly in the eye of the beholder. It is true that after leaving Sonny she involved herself for more than 15 months in a much-publicized romance with David Geffen, 31, innovative president of Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records. "Look, I've traded one short, ugly man for another," she zinged-typically -when she and Geffen ran into Singer-Songwriter Paul Simon. Then, a few months...
UFFRAGETTE! VAUNTS the courage and will power of womankind and this is its strength; but it does not expose the struggle for what it was: a fight against overwhelming political and cultural odds, for a moral purpose. The facts are all there in the musical, but its reliance on music-hall interludes and weak male characterizations undercuts the desperate courage which drove the women to fight until they...