Word: sexism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story of a love affair between the wife (Jane Fonda) of an unflinchingly patriotic Marine Corps captain (Bruce Dern) who is sent off to fight in Vietnam and a disabled and disillusioned veteran, played by Jon Voight. But beyond that, this film is about the aggression, insensitivity, and sexism; about the types of thought (or lack of it) that render these things acceptable. Although the film is set in Los Angeles in 1968, at the beginning of the Tet Offensive, it is not a specific criticism of our Vietnam policies. Rather, it attempts to prove that the then--and perhaps...
...treason and righteous rebellion, to be largely a matter of timing. Witness a current ad campaign by the California Milk Advisory Board and an aborted one by Finnair, the Finnish airline. The milk ads, which a few years ago might have seemed merely innocuous, are under fire for alleged sexism and racism; the Finnair ad has been withdrawn because of protests that it made light of a subject of growing concern to feminists, judges and others: wife beating...
Although I agreed with some of what Nicholas Gunther wrote in his article Men, Women and Sexism (February 9), much of what he said disturbed me deeply. There is less discussion among both men and women of our generation about sexism than there was a few years ago, when feminism was a 'new' issue. With this decreased discussion I feel there has been a growing confusion about the issues involved and their implications...
Gunther goes on to complain about what might be called reverse sexism. "What is about women is interesting, what is about men is dull...women playwrights and authors, even of dubious quality, are hoisted into the national spotlight. We are expected to listen to women not because they are brilliant musicians but because they are women...
...First Amendment protects not just the right to advocate love and sunshine, but also the right to advocate racism, sexism and many other obnoxious things. To dramatize that point, the American Library Association, whose members are often in the center of such controversies, produced a film entitled The Speaker. The 42-minute color movie describes a fictional controversy that develops when a high school student committee invites a scientist to explain his belief that blacks are genetically inferior to whites. The speaker, who is never actually seen or heard, is finally banned by the school board...