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Many people get very defensive when charged with being anything other than completely tolerant, but this self-conception simply is not very realistic. We have all grown up in the same world, which tries to to teach us very intolerant values. We have all swallowed homophobic attitudes: straight, bi and gay alike. It is fruitless to waste energy sidetracking the issue to defend our egos to each other; we must take what we have and make it better. There is no use for complacency here, only improvement. Elizabeth Flax...
...group of people. Homophobia is a pernicious force of social control. The same homophobia that makes me afriad to go to a dance with my boyfriend prevents Congress from adequately funding AIDS education programs. Meanwhile, the disease spreads and threatens everyone. That same homophobia may discourage some women--gay, bi, or hetero--from taking a Women's Studies course because they fear being stereotyped. Homophobia involves us all, regardless of who we love, or how we define our sexualities...
...think twice before denying homophobia around us. The Crimson recently paraphrased students as saying that the Saturday meeting was about deciding "how much toleration of different sexual orientations is necessary." That very statement is fraught with homophobia. Total toleration and even celebration of all sexual orientations--homo, bi, and hetero--is not only necessary, but is in the best interests...
Students also have bi-weekly, one-on-one meetings with tutors. This sort of tutorial program should be carried over to the other laboratory science departments. At present, other departments have either optional tutorial programs or none...
Stampfer's findings, which are published in today's New England Journal of Medicine, were part of the eight-year Nurse's Health Study conducted by the Medical School. The data were based on bi-annual questionnaires of 120,000 women from 11 states, Stampfer said...