Word: genderism
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Last week, film star Jane Fonda donated an impressive $12.5 million to the Graduate School of Education to endow a professorship in the name of Graham Professor of Gender Studies Carol Gilligan. The professorship is meant to be filled by an academic who will study the effect of gender on childrens' development and learning--Gilligan's area of expertise. We have sorely missed a professor devoted to this area, as Gilligan has spent much of the past few years teaching at New York University as a visiting professor. This endowed professorship, however, will ensure that Harvard will always boast...
...important makers of rotgut liquor. (Census officials say it's because their jobs contribute nothing to the national economy, not because their activities are illegal.) India's highly visible transsexuals, known as hijras, came close to burning their saris when census officials would give no quarter on gender and listed them as men. The country's estimated 30 million Christians charged that they were being marginalized because the poor and low-caste faithful could not claim "untouchable" status. And being a member of the "scheduled castes"?jargon for India's downtrodden?brings benefits, like privileged access to schools...
...talked of "reaching the unreached," Swaminathan said developing countries are threatened by major social divides, especially gender gaps and unequal access to technology...
...Then, at last, at the end you come to an apparently original piece called "Gender-Bending Hyjinx," starring Lovey, a full-figured redhead who goes ga-ga over her friend's "cross-dressing glam-rock boyfriend." She convinces her aesthete boyfriend to go drag, and revolting "hyjinx," involving strap-ons and vomit, ensue. It's classic Bagge: dirty, unapologetic, satiric and extremely funny...
Africa is being threatened by its own culture of male pride, intimidation, sexual entitlement, carelessness and gender- neutral cruelty. Don't blame the West for the epidemic of AIDS. This particular crime against humanity is being perpetrated by a culture in which the criminal is also the victim. Prevention should be the key strategy, but until the African culture opens its eyes to its part in this tragedy, it will be a losing battle. PATTI LAMB Richmond, Texas...