Word: genderism
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...Myers:I hope we have this conversation as a public. I'd love to have this conversation with her, but I hope we also do as a country. I don't think gender is Hillary's only obstacle. And I don't think it's all men's fault. Sometimes, we are our own worst enemies. We don't take enough credit for our own accomplishments. I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people...
...Myers:Well, I did live through the Gennifer Flowers episode, so, yes, it is difficult. The outside world perceives you're lending your gender to the defense. Here's a woman saying she believes the president. It's a greater burden on a woman, but it was uncomfortable for everybody. It's just too bad when those issues take center stage...
...longer tolerated in most schools. However, American educational attitudes toward homosexuality remain lamentably ambivalent. On the one hand, Lawrence King felt comfortable enough in his school environment to come out at such a young age. On the other hand, many young people who have unconventional sexual or gender orientations are subject to merciless teasing (and in this case, ultimately death) because of attitudes that schools have not done enough to curtail. If homosexuality were presented to children in schools from a very young age as an acceptable facet of diversity (as race and religion are), we would certainly...
...York Times’ “100 Notable Books of 2007.” Tomine, who dicussed “Shortcomings” at the Brattle Theatre yesterday, sat down with The Crimson to talk about education and inspiration, comic book aesthetics and culture, and representing race and gender in his art.The Harvard Crimson: Considering your upcoming visit to Harvard, what role did your college experience play in your work?Adrian Tomine: Distracted me and slowed me down probably. I wasn’t going to art school. I was going to Berkeley as an English major...
...Masen Davis, executive director of the Transgender Law Center, told the New York Times that “more and more kids are coming out in junior high school and expressing gender different identities at younger ages.” He suggests that this trend indicates a greater degree maturity on the part of adolescents. His error is to mistake the use of adult sexual categories for maturity...