Word: genderism
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Given that much of society is largely unfamiliar with many of the challenges that transgendered individuals face, Harvard’s decision to amend its University-wide non-discrimination policy to protect “gender identity” is a bold and highly commendable step. Since the formation of the Transgender Task Force (TTF) in 1997, the group of students, staff, faculty, and alumni who advocate on behalf of issues of gender identity has pushed for such an inclusion in the University-wide non-discrimination code. On Tuesday, the University’s general counsel told the TTF that...
...counterpart in the graduate program will be Katharine Park, who will replace current Director of Graduate Studies Mario Biagioli and holds one of the longest professorial titles as Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality...
Anyone who needs proof that not all feminists are monsters needs to look no further than the girls in Harvard’s sororities. Many of them are feminists, politically-minded women who do not want to be disrespected for a trivial thing such as gender. They enjoy the company of other women who are their friends, and take a special pride in and have fun being women, which does not go against supporting women’s rights...
...Manliness” skirts irrelevance by positing itself as a response to the current trend towards a gender-neutral society. Mansfield convincingly argues that the gender-neutrality revolution represents an unprecedented shift in human social organization: no society before our own has so programmatically sought to eliminate gender as a criterion for determining occupation and social role...
This makes the issue of manliness all the more salient because the gender-neutral society tends to dismiss it as incompatible with its ideals. Mansfield warns that male nature—the product of eons of evolution—cannot be put aside in a single generation. Moreover, he makes the case that manliness is worth keeping around for the good that it produces...