Word: genderism
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Maybe the best way to convince people that you're giving away the male gender's dark secrets is to confirm provocatively what they already believe. (See also The Other Half's blowing the lid off why men don't look at maps.) But at best, these series show TV arriving at a more nuanced understanding of manhood. In the dreaded '70s "sensitive man" era, feminist guys tended to simply, implausibly, deny what made them different from women. The postfeminist backlash of the '90s gave us the chest-thumping likes of Comedy Central's The Man Show. Today's post...
...book turns that conventional wisdom upside down. If colleagues are sisters, the book holds, then look out: the workplace will be fraught with rivalry and dysfunction, because women often betray and undermine one another. (Think Linda Tripp.) "Without fail, in 20 years of conducting conferences and workshops about gender differences in business, almost every participant we've encountered has acknowledged that women damage other women's career aspirations," write authors Pat Heim and Susan Murphy, with Susan Golant, of In the Company of Women: Turning Workplace Conflict into Powerful Alliances (Tarcher/Putnam...
...women who disagree with some of the book's conclusions, if not its premise. "The work force is like anything else," says lawyer Janie Smith of Business and Professional Women USA. "You're going to have people who get along, and people who don't get along, of both genders. My personal experience has been that for the most part, women are pretty supportive of one another." Besides, says Smith, what's considered bitchy in a woman is seen as assertive in a man. "If you could remove the gender, I'm not sure you would come to the same...
...enter his exhibition space and see only white walls and a rusty pipe; it’s often a few minutes before they see the struggling figurines that they are walking over. Such a delayed reaction calls into question the perceptions of passive violence in our society, and the gender-less figurines provided a clever comment on the status of the glass ceiling in the new century...
...grunge scene what Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols were to punk rock—what began as an esoteric musical offshoot of political turmoil (in the case of punk, economic and social turmoil in late-1970’s Britain; in the case of indie, rebellion against traditional gender roles in music and disdain towards the mass marketing of an art form) was deliberately sold as bandwagon rebellion. As Bart Simpson said while the Smashing Pumpkins played in front of him at Lollapalooza, “making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel...