Word: gendered
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...imaging software used only displays outlines of each passenger—anything exciting thankfully remains blurred—and security employees, who are required to be of the same gender as the scanned passenger, view the images in small, private rooms. Furthermore, images are never stored or distributed for any reason...
Katharine E. S. Loncke ’08 is a social studies and women, gender and sexuality concentrator in Cabot House. Deena S. Shakir ’09 is a social studies and Near Eastern languages and civilizations concentrator in Leverett House. Thomas S. Wooten ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House...
...Harvard, several powerful all-female student groups (I’m not talking about social organizations in this area) exist, such as the 300-plus member student group Harvard University Women in Business (HUWIB). Though groups like HUWIB are not explicitly anti-male, the fact that they are essentially gender exclusive and the nature of their mission statements suggest an underlying negativity against the other sex. The group purports to aim to enable women to be more able participants of the global marketplace, but I fail to see how alignments on the basis of gender improve members of the marketplace...
...defense of these various forms of reverse sexism is that women were oppressed for so long—American women have had the vote for less than a hundred years, for example—that these forms are acceptable, necessary even. Yet if it is a state of gender equality we are striving for, then enhancing divides between the genders undermines the mission. To command the respect of society, it is helpful to respect that society to begin with...
...dwelling on anti-male sentiments or fostering anti-male behavior, we will have reached an impasse. Feminism cannot survive unless we shed the mentality of, “I once was oppressed, therefore I have the right to behave badly.” When it comes to gender equality payback is not only a bitch—it’s completely ineffective...