Word: genderism
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...editors: Re: “Harvard Lags in Grad Parent Aid,” news, Apr. 12. Angela Sun’s article on Harvard grad schools’ lack of support for students expecting a child was a hard-hitting piece, bringing up a human rights, gender equality, and health care issue that has long been ignored by the Harvard administration. Where are the services for expecting students? Harvard is unabashedly pro-choice and through its many departments offers abortion services, funding elective abortions through the University Health Services (UHS) health plan. And yet when it comes to services...
Jessica C. Coggins ’08 is a women, gender, and sexuality studies concentrator in Cabot House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...radio shock jock described the Rutgers women's basketball team, on the April 4 Imus in the Morning, as "nappy-headed hos," he packed so many layers of offense into the statement that it was like a perfect little diamond of insult. There was a racial element, a gender element and even a class element (the joke implied that the Scarlet Knights were thuggish and ghetto compared with the Tennessee Lady Vols...
...rummaging in his subconscious for something to suggest that some young black women looked scary, and coming up with a reference to African-American hair and a random piece of rap slang. (Maybe because older, male media honchos are more conscious of - and thus fixated on - race than gender, much of the coverage of Imus ignored the sexual part of the slur on a show with a locker-room vibe and a mostly male guest list. If Imus had said "niggas" rather than "hos," would his bosses have waited as long...
...Imus uses jokes to establish his power, in other words. He's hardly the only humorist to do that. But making jokes about difference - race, gender, sexual orientation, the whole list - is ultimately about power. You need to purchase the right to do it through some form of vulnerability, especially if you happen to be a rich, famous white man. But the I-Man - his radio persona, anyway - is not about vulnerability. (The nickname, for Pete's sake: I, Man!) That's creepy enough when he's having a big-name columnist kiss his ring; when he hurled his tinfoil...