Word: genderism
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...This fall, WIB members have been dashing around in neon pink t-shirts to promote their Intercollegiate Business Conference, which took place Oct.13th. But forget the shirt’s hue (color-gender association is so over). It’s the words on the t-shirt that are most memorable: “CEO’s look better in heels.” The phrase is accompanied by a graphic of slender legs (presumably female) in a pair of pumps...
...shirt slogan is offensive, because it undermines the important ideal of gender equality in the business world, as do many facets of WIB itself—the very idea that a support group for aspiring businesswomen is necessary suggests that a person’s gender might play a part in how well she performs on the job. Likewise, in the case of this t-shirt, by suggesting that women make better CEOs, WIB is opening up the door for judgment on the basis of gender. This is exactly the sort of mistake forward-thinking social activists have been working...
...There are some more nuances that WIB seems to have missed in its t-shirt design. The motto seems to implicitly suggest that women “make better” CEOs than men do, which ties into the larger problem of linking professional fitness to gender. Perhaps WIB members did not intend this nuance, but then, they should have thought a bit more deeply about their slogan when they sent this t-shirt design to print...
...Five Lesbian Brothers, and Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver—the two founding members of the Split Britches Theatre Company—gathered Monday evening in the Fong Auditorium. The occasion was a roundtable discussion collectively sponsored by Harvard’s Program of Studies in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, the Course Innovation Funds, and Boston-area queer theater group Theater Offensive. LEAVING A LEGACY Both the Five Lesbian Brothers and the Split Britches are known for irreverent, satirical, and emotionally raw performances in queer theater, and members of both groups have been honored with the OBIE award...
...very blatant and explicit performance—the audience is fully aware that one actress is playing two very different characters, which suggests the ability of each person to manipulate their own performance and in a similar way. The play expresses the idea that political and gender identities are constructed via performance and aesthetics. It also explores how people so often define themselves and create performances in reaction to their perceived opposition...