Word: chauvinistic
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...before you wince in pain and cry out that we have already been through this, spent years agonizing over Fair Harvard’s most controversial lyrical change, rest assured: This is not a chauvinist attempt to restore the patriarchal language of our dear hymn. I simply want to suggest correcting one glaring, but easily fixed grammatical and connotative mistake in one of our university’s most cherished traditions...
...before you wince in pain and cry out that we have already been through this, spent years agonizing over “Fair Harvard’s” most controversial lyrical change, rest assured: This is not a chauvinist attempt to restore the patriarchal language of our dear hymn. I simply want to suggest correcting one glaring, but easily fixed grammatical and connotative mistake in one of our University’s most cherished traditions...
...became “monstrous” towards the end of the affair.He controlled Mallory’s pen, editing out parts of her writing that deepened a heroine’s character beyond her role as a mere sex object, Mallory said.“He was a chauvinist,” she said. “He subjugates.”But Mailer overwhelmed Mallory with his talent as a writer and his deceptively charming personality. She was eager to learn the trade of a writer.“I was a bit like an empty vessel going...
...girl in a positively gorgeous coat. Even the men seem to have improved. I even saw one in a well-fitting shirt—a big improvement! Of course there will always be the terrible Harvard fashion traditions, like pants embroidered with spouting whales. Like the many chauvinist institutions on campus, I doubt they will go away or let women above a holding-pen type basement, unless we band together and protest. (Look what disassociating ourselves in 1984 has gotten us: nothing!) But hey, I don’t want no hateration in this dancery. I want to congratulate...
...rivalry articulated by getting wasted at 10 a.m., the jingoism about arbitrary placement in a dorm, and a week of pomp and circumstance make a school spirited. These are all rituals, in which it’s easy to go through the motions, get drunk, and wear a vaguely chauvinist House pride t-shirt...