Word: genderism
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...almost every way other than gender, he says, such as race, ethnicity or social class, the club was diverse...
...nation, to serve up marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Last summer also started off well for the cause of equal rights, when the Supreme Court rightly ruled in last June’s Lawrence v. Texas that states could not outlaw consensual sex between adults of the same gender...
...civil institution of marriage to all need to be reiterated. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, ruling this fall that the Commonwealth’s constitution bars the state from refusing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, hit the nail on the head: banning homosexuals from marrying within their gender creates an artificial, inherently unfair second class of citizens. Massachusetts’ denial of marriage licenses to gays and lesbians was hardly the first time that those in charge of the American government did their best to deny its promise of freedom to all. Centuries of women, ethnic and religious minorities...
...give credit where credit is due, only the margins of Harvard—the Committee on Degrees in the Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and those courses taught by departing Lecturer on the Study of Religion Brian C.W. Palmer ’86—are totally closed off to dissenting voices. The recent appointment of Niall Ferguson, who will enjoy a dual appointment to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School, proves this well enough. His apologia for the British empire and his recent argument that America is and should be an empire are hardly...
...advice of a researcher, named their son Brenda, and had him castrated and put on a regimen of hormones that they hoped would turn him into a girl. The case was hailed as proof that behavioral differences between the sexes are learned. After Reimer discovered the truth of his gender at 14, he stopped taking hormones and adopted the name David. He eventually married and tried to live a conventional life. Reimer had been depressed since the suicide in 2002 of his identical twin brother...