Word: genderism
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...supply Abigail with some sort of useful masculine agency. Unsurprisingly, she becomes a damsel in distress soon enough, and Cage pumps up the virility. Riley, of course, is left on the sidelines as a site of emasculation and phallic failure. The end of the film affirms these yawn-inducing gender politics when Riley complains that he only got a tiny bit of the reward because Gates was too noble to take any more of it. Riley becomes the stereotypical gay doppelganger—materialistic and annoying—while Gates comes off as selfless, noble, and dead sexy...
...sexually aggressive woman, and now the demure lady is back. But women’s roles shouldn’t change with the hemlines each season, nor should they be reduced to a binary distinction. As Lyn Mikel Brown, an associate professor of women’s gender and sexuality studies at Colby College, told the Orlando Sentinel, “‘modesty’ sounds like pre- or post-feminist jargon for stepping back, acting nice, not making waves… I worry that what will follow is a push for girls to be more accommodating...
...marriage amendment warned of dire consequences if the initiative failed: “Every public school in Montana would be required to teach your children that same-sex marriage and homosexuality are perfectly normal. Natural marriage is extremely important for future generations. Men and women are distinctly different. Each gender brings vitally important, and unique, elements to a child’s development. Saying that children don’t necessarily need fathers or mothers is saying that one gender or the other is unnecessary. A loving and compassionate society always aids motherless and fatherless families. Compassionate societies never intentionally...
Social Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality concentrator
...Bradley S. Epps, who is professor of Romance languages and literatures and of the study of women, gender and sexuality, said Summers “is in an asymmetrical position vis-a-vis faculty, students and staff...[H]e can draw lines and make grand statements as to the inviolability of the lines that he draws in a way that is untenable for others...