Word: genderism
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...appointing Gutmann, Penn has become the first Ivy League school to appoint two female presidents in row, a development that Rodin has said would mark an important milestone on the road to gender equality in academia...
While there shouldn’t be a gender double standard when it comes to proper sexual behavior, this does not mean that women should undermine the sanctity of sex in order to gain equality. There’s a healthy middle ground that the show has failed to promote. Our generation needs to remember that treating a guy like an incidental accessory is not empowering, and being independent does not mean avoiding commitment. While I admit I will still be glued to the television screen when the final episode is aired, I can assure you that I will...
That is beginning to change as commitment ceremonies become common and families become more accepting (Monti's four children adore Neill). In some ways, gay couples have an advantage, says John Gottman, who counsels both straight and gay couples at his institute in Seattle. Because there is no gender divide between them, "gay partners discuss problems more positively, with more humor and affection than heterosexuals...
...Mars and women are from Venus or something like that," says Monti, "in a same-sex relationship, communication would be a slam dunk." Instead they found they had the same kind of miscues and hurt feelings that they had faced with their husbands. "Just because we're the same gender," says Neill, "doesn't mean we think the same." --By Michael D. Lemonick. Reported by Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles
...question is, Can even recreational use be unhealthy? A 2003 online study by Texas Christian University found that the more pornography men watch, the more likely they are to describe women in sexualized terms and categorize women in traditional gender roles. Mark Schwartz, director of the Masters and Johnson clinic in St. Louis, Mo., says porn not only causes men to objectify women--seeing them as an assemblage of breasts, legs and buttocks--but also leads to a dependency on visual imagery for arousal. "Men become like computers, unable to be stimulated by the human beings beside them," he says...