英语词汇sexist的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	sexist
词源	sexist. A relative newcomer, based on racist and coined in an 11/18/65 speech by Paulette M. Leet, director of special pro- grams at Franklin and Marshall College. Sexist refers to a per- son whose attitude or behavior is based on traditional stereo- types of sexual roles. Said Ms. Leet in her speech: “When you argue . . . that since fewer women write good poetry this justi- fies their total exclusion [from taking English courses], you are taking a position analogous to that of the racist—I might call you in this case a ‘sexist.’ . . .”
随便看	there-s a one-eyed man in the game there-s as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it there-s a sucker born every minute there-s many a slip twixt between cup and lip there-s no love lost between them there-s no there there there-s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos there-s nothing new under the sun there-s the rub there was a little girl there were giants in the earth in those days the rich are different from you and me the richest corpse in the graveyard thermos the rock thersitical the same dog bit me thesaurus the scene opens the schilder technique the screw plot the second city of the world the sensation is momentary and the position ridiculous the september night the settlement of the west

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