Word: genderism
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...Tripp's claim proceeds from what Jonathan Ned Katz calls "epistemological hubris and ontological chutzpah." A scholar of 19th century sexuality, Katz explains that the terms homosexual and heterosexual did not exist in Lincoln's time, and that fact is just one piece of evidence that the concepts of gender, sexuality and same-sex relationships were radically different in Lincoln's world. In those days, men could be openly affectionate with one another, physically and verbally, without having to stake their identity...
...published in 1980, officially listed tobacco dependence and transsexualism as disorders. "Tobacco dependence" may have been discovered to be a special disorder, worthy of its own category, so that smokers could collect from insurance companies for therapy. When "transsexualism," or discomfort about one's anatomic gender and the desire to change, was made an official disorder, Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz derisively claimed to be suffering from "transchronologism" because he was dissatisfied with his current age and wanted to be younger...
That selective amnesia requires an effort of will by the women directors, and of good will by the male bosses who employ them. "I never look at gender or hair color or clothing," avers Steven Spielberg, who chose women to direct three of the 24 episodes for his Amazing Stories. "I look at talent." But every baby mogul knows he must be a businessman first, a booster second. Says Mark Canton, president of production at Warner Bros.: "Nobody hires a woman just because she's a woman. The stakes are too high to be an idealist...
...kind of person for one year,” says Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology Theda Skocpol, who emphasized that the University needs “a more sustained commitment to make sure that we’re recruiting the best people to our faculty regardless of gender and race...
...search process continues to be very rigorous…I think the possibility that standards will suddenly be lowered is very slight,” Ryan writes in an e-mail, addressing possible concerns that special attention to gender diversity would lower standards of merit and scholarship in tenure searches...