Word: genderism
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What people say when questioned by a pollster about their political ideology, current events and the issues of race and gender is often vastly different than how they truly feel. The problem is that, even if it's just a voice over the phone, there's another person's expectations to live up to, another person's judgment that might come raining down with the "wrong" answer...
...Last fall in Malaysia - a moderate Muslim nation, like Indonesia, that is battling radical Islam - the leader of a top political party refused to meet with me because of my gender. A more liberal underling was sent in his place. He declined to shake my hand but was intellectually curious and appeared to relish the occasional tough question. "She's a feisty one, isn't she," he commented to TIME's Malaysia stringer, a male. Our stringer gave a noncommittal shrug. Back in Makassar, Tatap and I took Ikhwan's sermon without protest. Sometimes even flowers have to pretend they...
...journalists and consumers,” Maier said. Stein will research political activists’ use of the media to gauge government tolerance and assess the risk of participation in anti-regime activities. Goodman, who was awarded the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary, will examine a possible new gender gap in news media and the Internet. Goodman, a 1963 graduate of Radcliffe College and a former Neiman Fellow, has published several books and worked for Newsweek magazine, the Boston Globe and other publications. Halperin, founder and editor of ABCNews.com’s “The Note...
...Religion” in the online course catalog many times when searching for classes on women’s issues. Maybe that’s why this class is worth a look. The Divinity School’s Leila N. Ahmed and Ann D. Braude explain how gender can be used to analyze religion. Escape the old Faculty of Arts and Sciences and take Religion 1009 at the Div School...
...Sarah Silverman Program may just be the closest that boutique cable comedy comes to a date movie: a little heartbreak for her, a little peepee humor for him. Silverman doesn't like to speculate on the show's gender appeal: "I just like to think of myself as a comic." But she may have ended up unwittingly rebutting Christopher Hitchens the best way possible: by having, and getting, the last laugh...