Word: genderism
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...renown a quarter century after philosophy professor Homer Kelly graced the pages of Jane Langdon’s 1978 Murder in Memorial Hall. Chase’s economics department colleague Henry Spearman plays amateur investigator extraordinare in the 1986 novel Fatal Equlibrium. But smart and sassy Nikki Chase shatters gender and color barriers to become the first fictional African-American female Harvard professor-cum-sleuth...
Carlisle also notes that perhaps Harvard’s relatively small size and homogeneity may hold some responsibility. “Race, class, gender and nationality aside, we’re all students and we’re all about the same age,” she says, explaining this may make it difficult for the College “to create that sort of community...
...recent proposal by the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) to remove the gender designation from 24 single-occupancy bathrooms would not, at first glance, seem to constitute a pressing item on any political agenda. If only the BGLTSA moniker wasn’t attached to the proposal, it could be seen as a demand for most students’ mere convenience, not for transgendered persons’ civil rights. After all, when you’ve gotta go, you should be able to go, without the oppressive or “transphobic...
...Winthrop House, Mather House, Eliot House, the De Wolfe St. apartments, the Science Center, Widener Library and University Hall all have single occupancy bathrooms labeled for men or women. After the results of the BGLTSA bathroom study were released last week, Currier House immediately changed the markings on four gender-specific single-occupancy bathrooms. Currier House also put up gender-non-specific signs on two other bathrooms that did not have bathroom signs on the doors. The changes in Currier House show that the bathroom accessibility demands of the BGLTSA can be quickly implemented. The administration and House Masters should...
There was more to the Kids than drag, though, and more to their drag than easy yuks. They were postfeminist men having absurd, dark fun with gender roles and p.c., long before The Man Show dumbed both subjects down. As Bruce McCulloch recalls in a bonus-disc interview, for instance, his girlfriend's being hit on by leches inspired Cabbage Head, a vegetable-pated boor who claims women who won't sleep with him are bigots. ("It's because I have a cabbage for a head, isn't it?!") The Kids were also among the first TV comics to deal...