Word: gendered
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...Clifford M. Marks ’10 is an Economics concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He has hips any “gender illusionist” would envy...
...looked down at the menu in front of me. It was stamped in big letters: “Happy Birthday, Eleanor. 80 Years Young!” At the bottom was a collage of the dancers (or “gender illusionists” as the restaurant billed them). There were four tonight—a bonus compared to the usual three...
...incident is faintly reminiscent of one of America’s most notorious hate crimes, the 1993 murder of Brandon Teena. An adult when he was murdered, Teena had endured bullying throughout his life for his gender transgressions. Born female he began, at a young age, to identify and live as a man. When an adult he moved to the small Nebraska town of Falls City, hoping to live peacefully as a man and, perhaps at some point, to undergo sex change surgery. Teena dated women and befriended guys successfully, until a couple of his friends discovered his secret. Aghast...
...often erroneously referred to a lesbian, who had taken on a male identity to avoid the stigma of dating women as a female. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the reaction was how, in the wake of a murder prompted by the urge to punish the transgression of gender roles, no one could resist the urge to somehow fit Teena into some kind of explainable category...
Like final clubs, which became completely privatized in 1984, fraternities and sororities are not officially recognized by Harvard’s administration because they explicitly restrict membership on the basis of gender. This unofficial status, and the astronomical price of Cambridge real estate, limits the presence of Harvard’s Greek scene. While a group like Women in Science at Harvard and Radcliffe can host speakers in the Science Center lecture halls and OAASIS can hold meetings in the Adams UCR, without official university recognition Harvard Kappas, Thetas, and DGs are not permitted to use common campus spaces...