Word: genderism
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...clear, the growing practice is controversial, viewed by some as a potential attack on civil liberties. But after Tuesday, the American public may be shedding its qualms. More than half those interviewed in the TIME/CNN poll said it would be acceptable to profile by age, race and gender to help identify suspicious passengers. And thanks to a new software program dubbed the Threat Image Protection System that will soon appear on X-ray machines across the nation, the FAA will periodically be able to paint virtual images of guns or explosives onto the monitor to test and better prepare screeners...
...hairy-backed war tactics” of Golda Meir in the Yom Kippur War of 1973? She responded with force, as she had to. So may President George W. Bush, as he may have to. Sometimes, the correct action of the state involves the use of force. Gender has nothing to do with...
Only 14 years after this gender-based decision, the magazine The Art Amateur would remark, “There is nothing that men do that is not done by women now in Boston.” The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston took this quotation as a cue to laud the woman artist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In its most recent exhibit, “A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940,” the MFA draws from its own collections, as well as private collections to show...
...link to portrayals of women, or anything very much beyond sinister apocalyptic omens, is vague at best; the song is perhaps more a tribute from Tori’s days in her early metal band Y Kant Tori Read. The album’s closing track is a gender-bending version of Joe Jackson’s “Real Men,” in which the question about “who the real men are” becomes yet more doubtful in Tori’s endlessly transforming, role-playing world...
...populations. Women don’t hijack planes with an explicit intent to kill thousands of innocent workers in a statuesque office building. Women don’t kamikaze themselves and 91 innocent passengers into a governmental monument filled with employees. It may be cultural construct, it may be gender stereotype, it may be biological influence. But women don’t do this...