Word: genderism
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Such issues were revisited last Saturday in Boylston Hall, where a mini-film festival and series of faculty discussions sought to address Disney’s cultural and commercial impact on America. Opening with the critical documentary Mickey Mouse Monopoly, the film festival—entitled “Gender, Ethnicity and Disney”—came out early against Disney’s powerful influence...
Embedded messages about race and gender are arguably even more damaging. Harvard Medical School professor Carol Newberger argues in Monopoly that Beauty and the Beast implicitly encourages young girls to stay in abusive relationships. With the title characters’ relationship at times resembling domestic violence—she is isolated from her family and imprisoned—the film suggests to viewers that it is the job of the abused to, in Newberger’s words, “socialize and excuse” the abuser...
...still a civil rights activist,” he said. “We should all be Americans first, not judged by race, status, gender or sexual orientation...
...years of British and Irish life' for razor-sharp vignettes of the fates of women in judgmental male-dominated societies...These jewel-like stories vibrate with thickly textured detail and vigorous period language. Donoghue's colorful, confrontational historically based fiction is making something entirely new and captivating out of gender issues. One of the best books of the year thus far. Like Andrea Barrett, Donoghue has staked a claim to her own distinctive fictional territory...
While Radcliffe is eager to further the academic interests of female undergraduates, Faust said it will maintain distance from issues of social life. Faust added she does not want the Institute to be a “bucket in which [the schools] can deposit their radioactive gender issues...