Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Masters and Chattels. Though he admits that women have been exploited, Howe points out that men have, too, and in the same way: as members of disadvantaged classes rather than as members of one sex or the other. Moreover, "males may have been 'masters' and females 'chattels...
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Why, Howe asks, "cannot intelligent and humane people look upon sexual differences as a source of pleasure?" From Sexual Politics, "you would never know that there are families where men and women work together in a reasonable approximation of humanness, fraternity and even equality."
That equality might be more easily attainable, says Lionel Tiger* in a recent New York Times article, if feminists recognized biology. No one can avoid the fact that menstruation appears to make a difference. In one study cited by Tiger, girls taking exams just before their periods earned grades 14...
When society accepts this difference, Tiger suggests, it can minimize the effects. How? By adjusting exams and work time (the flying time of women pilots, for example) "to the realities of female experience." When feminists ignore biology, claims Tiger, they may make it harder for women to compete for scholarships...