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According to the syllabus, for instance, in its fifth meeting, the course discusses menstruation: “We will discuss the social and cultural stigmatization of women’s menstrual cycles and the concept of women’s genitals as ‘dirty.’” If the FemSex gang is implying that stigmatization of menstruation exists at Harvard—that female undergraduates are shunned for five days or so each month—then I guess I’ve missed the red tents inside the Yard. Alternatively, if FemSex facilitators...
...role as the world's back office over the past few years has hammered home the idea that the world's best companies are customer focused. Employees at firms processing customer feedback forms from Europe or taking calls for companies based in the U.S., for instance, take the concept that customer is king with them when they start their own businesses...
...course, other points of tension remain, such as the concept of black identity, especially now that Harvard’s black students come from every corner of the African Diaspora and level of the socioeconomic ladder. Celebrating Black History Month is no longer as simple as paying homage to a few Black American leaders or addressing the problems of urban America, because those issues are no longer of universal significance within the black community, as many feel unable to relate to a “shared” experience of historical struggle. At Harvard, an increasing number of students...
...National Center for Men, a male-advocacy group based in Old Bethpage, N.Y., says biology is a factor. "At a certain point during arousal, we don't have complete control over our ability to stop," he says. "To equate that with brutal, violent rape weakens the whole concept of rape." His group has created a "consensual sex contract" to be signed before intercourse...
This logic has inflamed feminists and editorial-page writers. "The decision is philosophically from another century, from a time when our rape laws were based on the concept of women being property of men," says Berkowitz, whose organization will push for a legislative remedy if Maryland's highest court doesn't reverse the ruling. In the meantime, the defendant is serving a five-year sentence, and the legal world continues to debate how quickly--if at all--a man must go when a woman says...