Word: genderism
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...accident that the nations with the least respect for women's rights are also the most stagnant in every other way. There will be no future for the Middle East beyond the perpetuation of its present agonies unless there is a fundamental revolution in its approach to gender and power. EDWARD FOX Toronto...
...China convicted and expelled her. The scholar, whose son and husband are American citizens, was one of several academics with U.S. ties arrested this year. But she is vowing to defy Chinese threats to keep silent and has spoken openly about her experience. The bespectacled sociologist's controversial specialty? Gender studies...
...idea. In books like The Invisible Dragon and Air Guitar, he has proposed the heretical notion that we should trust our responses. If you like it, it might be good. This seems self-evident, but for years the academic discussion of art was focused on issues of race, gender and class. Pleasure was beside the point. If that moralizing tendency is in eclipse now, it is thanks partly to the persuasive power of Hickey's ideas--and his writing, which is flip, brainy and plainspoken...
...Japanese did celebrate in the streets, but there was a hitch. Under current rules, only a male can be Emperor, and since Naruhito's brother has two daughters, there remains no legal heir to succeed Naruhito on the Chrysanthemum Throne. (Remember, folks, Japan's our ally, so this little gender-role eccentricity falls under "acceptable cultural differences.") There have, however, been eight Empresses in Japan's history, and the birth has renewed debate over changing the rules of succession again. But you haven't come a long way just yet, baby...
...societal pressure towards casual sex is not exclusive to the female gender. Despite its profundity on the topics of sports, fashion and beer, Maxim, the male Cosmopolitan, is full of tips on how to get laid. Throughout history, young men who happen to be virgins have been derided as unmasculine and abnormal. Nowadays, however, with the very present danger of STDs, men may risk annoying, painful and even fatal diseases in their attempt to fit into society’s mold...