Word: genderism
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Also, many Houses have struggled to even gender ratios among their populations, which have become unbalanced due in part to mostly-male or mostly-female blocking groups...
...friendship group," Lewis wrote in the e-mail message. "It's large enough to accommodate most close friendship groups, including groups involving both men and women, but small enough to ensure that students from one block will get to know other students in the House and to enable the gender ratios to be well balanced everywhere in the future...
...addition, the size change will allow the Houses to pinpoint the ideal gender ratio...
...perfecting is another. If doctors can someday tinker with a gene to help children with autism, what's to prevent them from tinkering with other genes to make "normal" children smarter? Technology always adapts to demand; prenatal sex-selection tests designed to weed out inherited diseases that strike one gender or the other--hemophilia, for instance--are being used to help families have the son or daughter they always wanted. Human-growth hormone was intended for children with a proven severe deficiency, but it came to be used on self-conscious short kids--if their parents could afford as much...
...most of Midler's routines, including her bawdy Sophie Tucker jokes ("I was in bed last night with m' boyfriend Ernie...") and her farewell song to Johnny Carson (You Made Me Watch You). He helped Billy Crystal with the '90s' most sit-throughable Oscar shows, capped by the 1993 gender-bending song parody (to the tune of The Tender Trap): "Those eyes/ Those thighs/ Surprise!/It's The Crying Game." He was the writer when Whoopi Goldberg performed before President and Mrs. Clinton--and when Ted Danson did his blackface bit at a 1993 Friars Club banquet. "He told...