Word: genderism
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...There’s no such thing as a ‘saw-na.’ It’s ‘sow-ow-na!”); another, of Uruguayan descent, explained the finer points of gender roles in Uruguay, as well as why she found bad Uruguay-related puns so unfunny; a third taught us Greek invectives. Neither was cultural identification a phenomenon limited to my room; at the activities fair held for first-years, representatives for organizations like the Hellenic Society gave out candy and encouraged students to sign up for e-mail lists. Though...
...turns out, SAA and BGLTSA are not so irreconcilable. Western culture has been inundated with so many out-of-the-closet stories that it seems like we’ve seen them all. Even that ultimate gender-bending symbol—the drag queen—has become cliché; witness the Adams House jocks who were vamping it up on Drag Night last Friday...
...land. The fetish of femininity is so powerful, that it’s just not as fun to go against the grain. So although women do participate in the event, the main acts and personalities have usually been male. At best, Drag Night allows us to flirt with the gender binary, without taking any serious risks. At worst, it celebrates expectations of femininity that women would rather do without, and ridicules the reality of trans experience...
...side—an opportunity from which men are too often barred these days. It’s true; these are the days of Schwarzenegger, Viagra and “The Man Show,” and I’m the last person to stop men from questioning gender norms. But how does drag do that, exactly? To most, excessive hair removal, artificially high voices, painfully high heels, and lots of “excuse me’s” and “I’m sorry’s,” doesn?...
...mockery of trans people and trans lives. Drag Night, at least in its current incarnation, doesn’t bring “diversity” or “tolerance” to Harvard (two claims made in a recent Drag Night e-mail). Instead it makes gender transgression something to shave about, dress up and sing a song for. After the night is done, we can go back to our dorm rooms and put our boxers and khakis back...