Word: genderism
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Kudelka’s decision to cast women as the step-sisters, as opposed to the traditional strategy of employing men, was rooted in the hope that they would pull off the shtick and slap-stick humor with more high-brow jest than the gender-bending farce. Cornejo herself was more naturally entertaining at ABT than were Tempe Ostergren and Megan Gray here, but both are leggy beauties who mugged with aplomb...
...night. Community members gathered at the Cambridge City Hall to provide recommendations to a GLBT Commission that was formed in February 2004 by the Cambridge City Council. The 15-member committee is responsible for monitoring the city’s policies and practices with regard to sexual orientation and gender identity. A third of the meeting was devoted to group discussions. Participants were asked to respond to questions about how Cambridge could further integrate GLBT awareness into education and city’s social and religious scenes. “We should have some piece of curriculum...
...tsunami,” Lim said. “[Every] three days, the same number of people who died in the tsunami are dying from hunger.” Lim highlighted the obstacles to achieving the other Millennium Development goals—which include targets for social indicators like gender equality and primary education—as long as widespread hunger persists. He called poverty a self-perpetuating “vicious cycle.” The Stand-Up rally also featured many students who have successfully implemented relief projects in Africa. David M. Sengeh...
...exclusively Homo sapien mating tactic. As it turns out, color plays a big role in interactions between the sexes. Males typically are more colorful in order to attract females, though in the case of the Red-necked Phalarope, an arctic shore bird, the color and gender roles are reversed. It’s the females who attract the males with their brilliant colors and leave after the arrival of their young—the males care for the offspring. For the wrasse fish, color is closely linked to gender, so much so that they change color throughout their lifetimes with...
...When I came back to Korea, I did not tell anyone what I did in China.” Last night’s event was sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association as an opportunity to educate Law School students interested in Asian studies and gender justice. “Under current standards of international law, what occurred with the comfort women would be illegal,” said Ryan Y. Park, the club’s political and outreach chair. Park, a second-year student at the Law School, met Kang in 2007 in South Korea...