Word: gendered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Salieri, and in the play and film Man to Man she was a woman in Nazi Germany who assumes her dead husband's identity. Once, at an airport security checkpoint, she was herded into the men's line. With her short hair and lanky frame she can seem either gender, or the best of both - a super-androgyne with a sex appeal as complex as it is irresistible...
...college admissions office often touts the school’s diversity, showcased by a wide array of ethnic organizations, religious communities, and groups such as the Harvard College Queer Students and Allies (QSA), an umbrella group for students of different sexualities and gender identities...
...Owens acknowledges that the QSA has been very gender-integrated, and Kellaway says that when she was cochair of the organization, the board had representatives from every race...
...These problems are neither new nor uncommon. What has happened at Harvard—and to the gender equality movement in general—is something that is as dangerous as it is strange. In our post-sexual liberation society, a woman is now encouraged to embrace her sexual autonomy until an unspoken, invisible line dictated and measured only within her own head is crossed, at which point she is catapulted into decorated victim status. In advocating this philosophy, the movement reduces women to passive victims and, worse still, takes away from the women who are victims of truly egregious...
...mentality in which we blindly protect the women in our lives from supposed male predators is not compatible with our can-do credo, through which we encourage the same women to grab life by the horns, even in the realm of sexual risk-taking. What we need in the gender-equality debate is not another half-assed website, but instead a campaign that can effectively adjust to our times...