Word: genderism
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While classroom dynamics are difficult, I feel even more sorry for both sexes outside the classroom, where middle school consciousness of gender looms over my students more than anything, except maybe the MCAS. Today at lunch, my table of girls decided they weren’t going to eat lunch for fear they might gain weight. While these 11-year-old girls agonize over every sandwich, their male counterparts are showing off their muscles and manhandling smaller boys to flaunt their strength. One of my students doesn’t understand that sports aren’t everything?...
...time when they are forming identities, it seems that society is handing these middle schoolers pre-packaged gender roles. At our talent show last week, the final—and most popular—song was “Take Ya Home” by the supposed fiancé of most of my female students: the rapper Lil BowWow. The chorus, which several female students sang in the background while dancing provocatively, glorifies the rapper, ending: “I mean you run through my mind like all the time to the point that I just wanna take ya home...
...these years, we thought MICHAEL JACKSON was beyond race, beyond gender, beyond defeat. Now we learn he loves to trumpet his ethnicity and is willing to admit he can fail. The problem is, he's having trouble accepting responsibility for that failure. Angry that his last album, Invincible, sold only 2 million copies in the U.S., Jackson is blaming his record label, Sony, for not promoting the CD with ads on his TV special, among other things. So the dethroned King of Pop rented a bus and, clutching a picture of Sony Music chairman Tommy Mottola sporting demonic horns...
...says the rules of acceptance have been simple for her. "As pilots, we are graded by our compatibility with the person we're flying with, by our professionalism and abilities as pilots," she says. "The grades are given out regardless of race and gender. It's satisfying to see that women in the cockpit are now unremarkable within the pilot world." She doesn't think she approaches her job differently than a man, except perhaps in one respect. "I'll admit when I don't know something," she says, laughing. "I'm not sure some of my colleagues would think...
...government official says Burns' financing savvy had a calming effect on Wall Street last fall. "Male or female, if an executive can help an airline grow in the toughest economic environment in years," observes consultant Hamlin, "then he or she will be rewarded regardless of gender." That's what women have wanted for years...