Word: genderism
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Politicians are increasingly using religion and gender to manipulate their public images and win voter support, Wendy Kaminer, a fellow at the Radcliffe Public Policy Center, told a gathering of 20 people in an address Wednesday afternoon at the center...
From religious concerns, Kaminer moved on to discuss gender politics, in front of the mostly female audience...
Furthermore, the privacy analogy between being forced to live with a member of the opposite sex and a queer member of the same gender is correct. We are raised, in this culture, with a very strong personal privacy taboo around the opposite sex, and a queer person fills that role. I can't imagine how it could have been productive when I was in college to force me to live with a woman who wasn't comfortable with the idea of disrobing in front of me or me changing in front of her. Fortunately, my roommate did not have...
Women like Williams have taught me that feminism has little to do with anger and nothing to do with hate. The cause does not concern placing blame on men as a gender, it concerns a female's reconciliation to herself, her self-identification and her self-love. It concerns my right to choose what I want to look like, what I want to be when I grow up, and how I get to then from now and from before...
...little girl, a sexless kid, I never considered that my gender would factor into my life except in clothing decisions and prom dates. I see now how every decision I make is affected by my being a woman, how it affects my place at this school, on this planet, and in my mind. Williams sings a song entitled "When I Was a Boy," which focuses on the jolting change from androgynous youth to adolescent and adult society, where gender determines rules for behavior and lifestyle...