Word: genderism
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...her” no longer suffice, a person can only shy warily away from the shudder-inducing “it” and mumble inaudibly. Has political correctness finally exhausted the capacities of the English language? Wesleyan University has turned to a gender-neutral alternative: “ze.” “Students use it to refer to people who have requested it as their pronoun,” Zach Strassburger, a member of the Weseleyan Trans/Gender Group, wrote in an e-mail. “They are mostly but not entirely students who identify...
...fewer than four articles (including a staff editorial, not to mention two e-mail transcripts) were published surrounding the incident—more in one day than about any other single topic this school year. If there needs to be a discussion on campus about the role that single-gender unofficial organizations play in our social scene, let’s have it, but let’s have it openly, rather than by making what amounts to a series of poorly concealed personal attacks that capitalize on an unfortunate and understandable mistake...
...something that brought together all these groups.”Lee said that Diversity & Distinction was intended as a “cross-identity” publication.“The idea was embracing diversity in a broad sense, not just race [but also] class, religion, sexual orientation, and gender,” said Lee, who is also a Crimson editor.The magazine has come a long way in 10 years, said Geoffrey A. Fowler ’00, the 1998-1999 editor of Diversity & Distinction and now a foreign correspondent at the New York Times, adding that the first several...
...ventures run the gamut from medical clinics staffed by retired doctors and nurses to legal clinics for disadvantaged children. New activities like these are attracting more men to volunteerism, which has historically been dominated by women. At Taproot, men make up 38% of the membership. The gender revolution--in which more women have gone to work--has reduced the traditional pool of female volunteers even as expertise-based assignments are drawing in more men. "Because we are now in a knowledge economy," Steinhorn says, "knowledge is what both women and men can contribute...
...athletics department does take proactive steps to recruit and hire diversely across gender and ethnic lines,” he said, noting that Harvard advertises open positions on outlets including the Black Coaches Association...