In his letter, the president said such an action would have implied university approval for all other works in the Matsunaga show, which contained prints that might have offended women.

In Yeats's Ghosts, Brenda Maddox suggests that the poem is "designed deliberately to offend women" and labels it as "offensive".

The General Motors Corporation has pulled a TV commercial for its small Cadillac Catera because of concerns that the ad might offend women.

In its eight years of publication, it has offended blacks, women, homosexuals and others.

Earlier this month, Cadillac pulled a commercial that featured the model Cindy Crawford in a tight black leather dress after the company became concerned the ad might offend working women.

The piece took a tone that could only offend women; he called Bancroft Hall, the school's single, mammoth dormitory, housing 300 women and 4,000 men, "a horny woman's dream."

"My goal was not to hurt people or offend women," he says.

"According to their traditions, the Karachays will never offend women - there is no doubt of that."

This offends feminine women.

"They were worried that it would offend women," she said.