Word: genderism
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...which a student asks the teacher if a poet whom the class is studying is gay. After berating the student, accusing him of having a “grubby and ultimately rather banal little mind” and insisting that “the artistic temperament has no gender,” the teacher undermines his own efforts to evade the question when he immediately directs another student to read aloud one of the aforementioned poet’s works, entitled “The sweat of the young working boy stiffens my resolve...
Frankie J. Petrosino’s buck is subtitled “a new play about love, race, and the price of sex.” While the play hammers home the issue of race, some of the more interesting questions it raises regarding gender and sexuality are picked up but never sufficiently addressed, let alone resolved...
However, this strict, formal observance of a code between the accepted interaction between blacks and whites becomes almost indistinct when it comes to relations of gender depicted in the play...
...Harvard first-year is hatching a devious scheme. It may seem obvious that the admissions office wants female pre-frosh staying with female students, but apparently this is never explicitly spelled out. This clever first-year, capitalizing on the ambiguity of the situation and what he believes is the gender ambiguity of his first name, has attempted to pass himself off as a female student to host unsuspecting female members of the class of 2006. “Call me S. Vanderweil. No wait, that’s too obvious, call me Stefan V,” says Stefan...
Vanderweil says he had no choice but to resort to this gender-bending hoax. “All the girls at Harvard already know I’m a dirty sleazebag,” he says...