Word: chauvinist
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Even though they may now be calling themselves "femaleists," they're still singing the same old feminist refrain: "We're not inferior to men. If anything, we're superior (so stop oppressing us by forcing us into outdated, limiting sex roles, you chauvinist men)!" Enough already! Instead of wasting time and energy exploding what remains of the old sex-role stereotypes, let's move on to the more difficult and important task of creating new, updated sex roles. Do we really need to determine who actually did the hunting in prehistoric times or prove that women have it in them...
...World (due from Random House in May). But it's Angier, who has already won a solid reputation (and a Pulitzer Prize) at her day job, who most decisively lifts the concept of the human female out of its traditional oxymoronic status. You gotta love a self-described "female chauvinist sow" who writes like Walt Whitman crossed with Erma Bombeck and depicts the vagina as a "Rorschach with legs." Woman: An Intimate Geography is a delicious cocktail of estrogen and amphetamine designed to pump up the ovaries as well as the cerebral cortex...
...women embrace biology, which male-chauvinist diehards still equate with "destiny," won't they have to give up something else--like dignity and free will? The popularity of evolutionary theories featuring man-the-hunter from Mars and his Venusian sidekick, woman, has led many feminist scholars to assert that biology is a sexist "ideology," not a science, and Darwin just another dead white male with an ax to grind. In the mid-'80s, the influential French feminist theorist Christine Delphy advised thinking women to "ignore" biology, and in this country there were mutterings that research into sex differences should...
...chauvinist governments, like those of France and South Korea, will probably resist foreign takeovers. And niche manufacturers like BMW and Porsche, whose ownership is largely in family hands, may also remain independent. Almost everyone else is vulnerable...
...There was an unwillingness to allow for all of us to have our own humanity, as if the men at Radcliffe were as much a part of the problem as any 'male chauvinist...