Word: gendered
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...BGLTSA release acknowledged that the Foundation was not responsible for Pinkett Smith’s comments. But the Foundation has pledged to “take responsibility to inform future speakers that they will be speaking to an audience diverse in race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender and class,” according to the release...
Students said that some of Pinkett Smith’s remarks concerning appropriate gender roles were specific to heterosexual relationships...
...three years hence, thou wilt give a speech at a woman’s conference that will really rile up some crazy radicals. Even though you showed the importance you ascribe to gender imbalances in academia by attending the conference in the first place—not to mention through your previous actions—and even though your speech will be firmly grounded in facts, a lot of activists who don’t know anything will get pissed off at thee...
Anonymity on the Internet, and in particular gender anonymity on the Internet, has often been framed in a rather ugly light, marred as it is by media portrayals such as in the 2004 movie “Closer,” in which Clive Owen has a steamy romantic online rendezvous (can an online rendezvous really be steamy?) with someone he believes to be a woman, only to find out that it’s actually Jude Law. But this is anonymity nonetheless, and it is a powerful force in shaping who’s who on the net: when...
...been much like the Harvard tenure process: a ruthless and uncaring judge. It distributes great fortune in a way that to the eyes of mere mortals often looks plain capricious. I don’t know whether the tenure process is blind to identity—to lineage or gender or whatever—but the Internet most certainly is: on the net, somebody could be anyone, and it’s almost impossible to expose false claims of persona. And that means, among other things, that on the Internet, anyone—race, gender, and even sometimes talent...