Word: genderism
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...three decades since, Daly has written seven books in the field of feminist theology and philosophy and a dictionary for "wicked women." And, true to form, she has remained at he center of several self-generated controversies sparked by inflammatory comments on the shortcomings of the male gender...
Another alternative to closing club doors thathas been considered in the past is making clubsco-ed, which would prevent them form violatingCollege gender equity policies...
...anyone describe such exclusionary casting methods based on gender as anything but discrimination? The real question is not whether the Pudding discriminates against women, but whether such discrimination is necessary for the production of the Pudding's humorous, engaging, and, at times, professional art form. If one discriminates in the name of art, one should able to prove that the art require such discriminatory practices...
When beautician Polly Tishun (Michael Kennedy '99) blooms from her stuttering shy-girl cocoon and becomes a sexy, successful presidential candidate, we not only see gender-bending acquire an occupational valence but also a post-feminist re-telling of the American teenager's Bildungsroman, embedded in a politicized pulp paradigm that we have not seen since the 60s (aka Celine Dion). Kennedy is fully aware of all the dimensions of his character but still manages to add symbolic layers even as he sheds tactile ones...
...General Lee Aliar, Jason Mills '99 skillfully evades our sympathies--the moment he is threatened, he turns into a shell-shock poster child and begins writhing all over the floor. He turns into a worm. Furthering this redoubling of the gender-turn as species-turn, Bryan Leach '00 plays an anthropomorphic (albeit morphologically impaired [a la Rilke's Archaisicher Torso Apollos]) dog, a stereotypical Scotland Yard scrub, who's neutered jokes wear thin, to say the least. Also included in this category is Donatello Mywife (ably, even riotously, acted by Michael Roiff '01) because he is: a) Italian...