Word: genderism
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...Gender balances are also in question. Despite the impending loss of one of only two female members, the selection committee did not choose a woman to replace...
...ordeal that follows unfolds like a gender-bending version of The Story of O. Helplessly, the dancer must submit to his captors' sexual demands and to an excruciating but not disabling form of mutilation. His body is made the centerpiece of a pornographic banquet; he is forced to dance, chained and naked, before an invited audience of masked guests. The women, faces always hidden, refuse his pleas for an explanation of why they are doing this...
...belief that WWF is undeniably horrible as an institution was only been confirmed by my ring side seat. The morals, gender codes and so-called patriotism it condones make my stomach queasy. The wrestlers are over-paid to do nothing (they don't even look particularly good in those spandex things), and, as performers, could use some work. Wrestling lessons would be at the top of my list, with a few lessons on acting as a close second and haircuts a definite third. As I watched yet another wrestler gesture at his groin, I realized that my mace was futile...
According to DJ Schmeejay's research, six things are guaranteed to make people laugh, regardless of race or gender: 1) watching someone get kicked in the genitals, 2) a hapless person falling down stairs, 3-5) two people beating on each other in form or another, and 6) adults dressed as twins...
...same time, however, the violence is staged in a public arena, and arenas tend to cross economic and even gender lines in a way that home performances don't. In some ways, WWF acts both ways: you watch it on TV but it's also in a public arena. And it even travels around so that it becomes a sort of court, a sort of "for the people" activity. If you remove it into a more private space--say, now it's going to be at the Kennedy Center--it's going to be quite different...