Word: genderism
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More than half the characters on Grey's Anatomy are African American or female, although Rhimes insists she didn't write race into it at all. Her script for the pilot had no physical descriptions other than gender. But it came naturally to her to cast that way. "Shonda sees the world through the eyes of human beings. That's the bottom line," says Washington, who says his role as the brilliant surgeon has finally allowed him to break away from playing so many stereotypical thug roles. "Her characterizations are definitely her strong suit," says ABC Entertainment chief Stephen McPherson...
...council also approved the 2006-2007 Handbook for Students, amending the current statement about harassment to include those targeted “on the basis of...sexual identity.” The addition reflects a decision reached by the Harvard Corporation on April 3 to include gender identity in the College’s non-discrimination policy...
...Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) in a lecture last night at Harvard Hall. “I was working on the Princeton policy, and the H-word was bandied about quite a bit,” she said. Last week, Princeton’s administration added provisions for “gender identity and expression” into its nondiscrimination policy. Harvard announced a similar decision on April 11. The speech was this year’s Papadopoulos Lecture, coordinated by BGLTSA in memory of Nicholas Papadopoulos, a graduate of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS...
...think the UC’s restructuring decision is not what the student body wants.” THE UC GETS RELIGION At Monday’s meeting, the UC also voted to fund events sponsored by student groups that limit membership or officership on the basis of gender or religion. Haddock had ruled the previous week that the bill to amend the council’s nondiscrimination policy had not garnered the requisite two-thirds majority. But in what Haddock described as a “parliamentary twist,” a further review of last week?...
...Catholic organization Opus Dei [April 24]. Any group that is exclusive, isolated and secretive cannot be truly Christian. Just like the press investigations into the protection given to pedophile priests, your article will help the Roman Catholic Church cleanse itself of its secrecy as well as the flaw of gender-determined and gender-dominated leadership. So absorbed are the church leaders in promoting and protecting their agenda that they fail to fulfill their role in the truthful representation of Christ. Etta Albright Cresson, Pennsylvania, U.S. Your article on Opus Dei made plain the dangers of fanaticism and extremism within religious...