Word: sexism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formula while gambling that the courts might now be more lenient about nudity. Instead of Esky the bug-eyed lecher as a trademark, Hefner created the Bunny. Facing Playboy's runaway success but unwilling to become a "skin book," Esquire made a wobbly retreat from barbershop sexism. Soon its advertising men protested that Esquire had become too stuffy and intellectual...
Vampires have always plagued such hysterical misogynists as August Strindberg, who saw women as the bloodsuckers, preying on the very soul of Man. Dracula is Our Champion,the only man capable of fighting back, of beating women at their own game. The whole thing smacks of sexism increased exponentially by psychosis, but that, after all, is what we go to movies for, to satisfy our primitive urges without actually acting them...
Islam's Sexism...
Jane O'Reilly's report on the "Iranian Women's Revolution" [April 2] lucidly and sensitively covered an often misunderstood issue. Rather than take the easy way out and slur Islamic principles as the root of Middle Eastern sexism, she has demonstrated that it is the patriarchal interpreters of Islam who have perpetrated women's oppression. That practice, I might add, is surely not unknown in many Christian sects as well...
...disturbed at the headline on the Caryn Curry profile, "Basketball Star 'Plays Like a Man'". This headline does nothing but reinforce the double standard and sexism that prevails on the subject of women's sports. When someone tells a woman athlete, like Caryn, that she does her sport like a man, it is taken as a compliment not because women are trying to emulate men but because playing like a man is synonymous with playing well. The way our society exists today, to be a good female athlete is to deny the mold that has encompassed women for years...