Word: genderism
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...Gender relations are also different online, where young men and women flirt openly across the borders and obstacles that have been placed between them. In one internet cafe in Beddawi camp in northern Lebanon, one teenager leaned over to show me his girlfriend in Gaza, smiling out at him through a grainy, time-delayed webcam shot. Men and women can communicate with an ease and frankness that Palestinian social mores are less permissive of. In his IM window, the young Palestinian book-ended a flirtatious message to his Gazan girlfriend with a line of heart and angel icons. He flashed...
...Germany. “Knowing about the specifics of different [judicial] models will encourage the search of dialogue among legal scholars from different systems of adjudication,” Mendes said. After his talk, he answered questions from students and professors about issues of affirmative action, health care, social, gender, and racial inequalities. “We are now celebrating 20 years of the enactment of the 1988 Brazilian constitution. This is actually something quite remarkable,” Mendes said, noting that Brazil is currently experiencing the longest period of democracy in its history. “The constitution...
...follow, the interpretive ambiguity it causes is not only a source of confusion, but also one of enjoyment.“Mnemonic” weaves together several related storylines in which all characters are desperately searching for something, using female players for male characters to emphasize the irrelevance of gender for human experience. In the first, a man called Virgil—wonderfully played by Madeleine A. Bennett ’11—tries to locate her lost lover. In the second, Virgil’s lost lover, Alice (Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08) searches throughout...
...Palin as his running mate.“A MANLY MAN”Government Professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 explained the presidential race in terms of his book “Manliness,” which mourns the lack of manliness in a “gender neutral” society.“The race between McCain and Obama is the classic match-up between a manly man and a sensitive man,” Mansfield said. He added that McCain’s ‘manliness’ would translate into a more aggressive...
...Barnes. Now, 11 years into the recording career of second-era Elephant 6 group Of Montreal, Barnes is still trying to find the right way to get out whatever the fuck is inside his head. But for anyone who’s been following the Kevin Barnes genre-bending, gender-bending bender, “Skeletal Lamping” will feel just about right, if a little bit disappointing. The follow up to last year’s critically acclaimed “Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?” sees the reintroduction of alter-ego Georgie Fruit...