Word: genderism
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...Department of Education began an investigation this week into the College’s new sexual assault discipline procedure, acting on a student’s complaint that the policy violates the Title IX gender discrimination statute...
...engaged.) This winter, along with a new edition of The Bachelor, ABC will air The Bachelorette and has chosen Rehn, a physical therapist and dancer for the Miami Heat, to choose one guy from a smorgasbord of 25. ABC says it is hoping the series will help examine gender roles. Asked if a woman dating multiple men will be as palatable to the public as a man in the same position, network president Susan Lyne replied that the series "will force all of us to look at those double standards." In that case, maybe it should...
Clearly, single-sex education is not the easy solution to rescue gender-tortured middle-schoolers. In my all-girls enclave, middle school was far from a breeze. My class dealt with eating disorders, exclusive discussions of dating and the cool jeans to wear. Although I avoided the sexual tension during classes and the need to impress my crushes during recess, identity angst will never be far from middle-schoolers...
...also happen to think that my students are lucky to be hashing out their gender identities while still in training bras. For me, learning to relate to the opposite sex had to come sometime, and while I had small jolts of it during high school, I look at the beginning of college as my middle school, condensed into a few months. The first few weeks of my first year were nerve-racking. I wondered whether it was really okay for me to see boys without taking extra care to make myself look good. I had trouble identifying flirtatious behavior...
...still not be the expert on gender relations, but any help I can give my students might just lay aside some of the terrors of middle school. And maybe then, in the long run, it’s good that the boys and girls are learning how to deal with each other and societal expectations now. It doesn’t get any easier...