Word: chauvinist
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Legion of Merit from Ms. magazine. "On weekends he's wearing his cowboy hat and driving his pickup," says Betsy's brother John, who is their next-door neighbor in Clear Lake, just south of Houston's city limits. "You'd equate that kind of Texan with a male chauvinist." Wrong. Watson describes her husband as "extremely self-confident and self-assured. And my success does not jeopardize his own masculinity or feelings of worth." But that power balance shifts the moment they walk through the front door. "At home, Chase is the center of the family," John explains. "Betsy...
...current appeal of such male chauvinist beliefs can be traced to Islam's response to Western expansionism in the 18th and 19th centuries. Fearing the erosion of their culture, the Wahhabis and others chose to assert values that set them apart, including the negative aspects of Islam's treatment of women. Modern Islamic fundamentalism is essentially a revival of this earlier reaction against the West...
Sexism pervades the athletic world, and Olson's mistreatment is hardly an isolated case. Just ask Jennifer M. Frey '90, a former Crimson sports editor who worked at The Detroit Free Press this summer. Like Olson, Frey was verbally attacked by a chauvinist athlete--in Frey's case, Tigers pitcher Jack Morris. Like Olson, Frey saw the offending organization's powers-that-be scurry to join the anti-feminist bandwagon. But this problem is not solved by opening the locker rooms...
...Moscow and shares his moderate views. But it was highly significant that the delegates bypassed Filaret, a hard-liner who had served as acting head of the church since the death last month of Patriarch Pimen. Leader of the Kiev diocese since 1966, Filaret is more of a Ukrainian chauvinist than is Vladimir and, according to dissident priest Gleb Yakunin, is seen as "a KGB puppet." He was third in the bishops' vote...
India's presence in Sri Lanka's northeast inadvertently brought even greater misery to the country's south. There, the extremist People's Liberation Front (J.V.P.), a Sinhalese chauvinist group, protested the foreign intervention with a barrage of murders and strikes that created near anarchy. The government replied by dispatching death squads to assassinate suspected J.V.P. cadres. The retaliation campaign worked -- since late last year the J.V.P. has been virtually inactive -- but at great cost. In all, some 17,000 people died in the attacks and counterattacks...