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Jessica C. Coggins ’08 is a women, gender, and sexuality studies concentrator in Cabot House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...School. Reality disappoints. Scrolling through posts, the most viewed posts includes a YouTube video of an unidentified Harvard Law student with a 40 oz. duct-taped to her wrists that she unsuccessfully tries to remove for a good three minutes. The blog also includes derogatory comments on the gender, sexuality, and appearance of various law students, including some from Harvard. But Law School student Adam R. Sorkin thinks these harsh remarks represent the feelings of only a minority of the student body. “It’s easy, if you don’t have friends...
...classification of women as “the Other” in male-dominated society. While Beauvoir was of course not the first theorist to talk about self and Other, she did claim that men project their own insecurities on woman, devaluing them in order to privilege the male gender...
...Man” on urbandictionary.com. Apparently, it is a term used to describe any class of people or an individual person who wields power and uses that power to oppress. I was familiar with this slang—but this was a party specifically addressing gender-related issues...
...sure of ourselves, we will not need a women’s center, because we will recognize that the Science Center and the Barker Center are just as much ours as any man’s. We will not rail hysterically against any suggestion of “innate gender differences,” but will rather curiously consider where XY and XX do diverge. Women’s frenzied wailing about our oppression at the hands of men only obscures the fundamental feminist truth: that we are all human beings with more in common than...