Word: genderism
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...That policy is very heteropresumptive,” said Stephanie M. Skier ’05, the group’s co-chair and a Crimson editor. “The University classifies people by their gender and makes people check only one box, ‘M’ or ‘F,’ and there is a significant part of the student body that is ignored in that...
...Even if there’s only one student who does not feel welcome by this University because of their gender, that is unconscionable,” she said. “I wouldn’t want the fact that it’s not happening to a majority of students to be an excuse to ignore...
Marcel A.Q. LaFlamme ’04, the public relations chair of BGLTSA, said that the current housing policies were objectionable because they were based on an overly simplistic notion of gender...
...very heterocentric presumption that the reason men and women don’t room with each other is sexual attraction” motivates current policy, said LaFlamme. “There is a larger ideological critique of the way that single-gender rooming is established as a given...
Women tend to steal for pleasure more than men, but that gender disparity might reflect a reporting bias: women are more likely to be perceived as unbalanced. Kleptomaniacs also tend to suffer from other mental disorders, such as anxiety or depression. As a rule, they steal regularly--on a weekly, and sometimes daily, basis. And most important, they are well aware that what they are doing is wrong; they tend to experience intense regret after the deed is done...