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This weekend, hundreds of high school and middle school students from all over the West Coast stood in applause of a man whose words hadn't yet been made clear. They stood before his translator had made his meaning clear. Adolfo Pérez Esquivel speaks Spanish and his words rang true.

On Feb. 19, seven people - students, faculty, Barometer staff and Mary Zelinka, assistant executive director of the Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence - sat down in the conference room of the Barometer to discuss sexism in media. This is the first part of the forum series, which is about "-isms" in media.

This is a column I have been wanting to write for quite sometime now, but know - just from the conversations I have with friends - that it is a subject matter that gets some people riled up. So, I will preface this column by saying my intent is not to rile people up.