Word: genderism
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Chief among the proponent’s claims is that establishing a Women’s Center would signal Harvard’s strong commitment to gender equality and the value of women in this institution. But we fail to see how relegating women’s resources to an outpost in the Quad fosters equality of any kind. As a symbolic act, this Women’s Center proposal is a farce...
Harvard certainly owes its women a strong institutional commitment to gender equality, but the Women’s Center as a mere token gesture hardly constitutes this kind of commitment. While proponents’ goals merit support, the Women’s Center does...
...concern? What about being arrested for entering the ‘wrong’ bathroom? Granted, I know of no Harvard-specific examples of transgendered individuals (or any other individuals, for that matter) being arrested for entering the bathroom of the ‘wrong’ gender, but there are certainly incidences of this in the ‘real world...
...interactions with professional proctors during exam period. For the record, I do not identify as a transgendered individual, but I am a somewhat androgynous-looking (both by choice and by genetics) woman who often has trouble ‘passing’ as a member of my own gender. I certainly would not feel more comfortable entering a men’s restroom, although it is entirely possible that, in some instances and some clothing, I would have no trouble doing...
...also offended that the authors would equate ‘mere convenience’ with the aforementioned plight of transgendered individuals attempting to find a safe bathroom. For one thing, a straight, non-gender queer individual can easily enter an opposite-gender marked single occupancy restroom and, if approached on exit, shrug and explain that he/she really had to go; I have done it in gas stations, and really nobody cares. But a trans individual (or even a queer individual such as myself) trying to enter a public, multiple-occupancy restroom faces the threat of verbal and physical abuse, angry...