Word: genderism
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Neither manager could respond to my concern, voiced as a feminist, that a strip club undermines any progress our society has made toward gender equality over the last 30 years. Or that the very use of the term "gentleman's club" is a return to an era that most women would rather leave behind...
...weeknights and weekends, a few choose to strip and a lot choose to leer at the world famous Big Al's, the city's neon-lit tribute to gender equality...
Businesses are paying attention. Computer firm Lucent Technologies has added "gender-identity characteristics or expression" to its equal-opportunity policy. The University of Iowa has similar language, and in February, Rutgers adopted more limited protections for "people who have changed or are in the process of changing" their sex. Last year Harvard allowed an incoming female-to-male freshman to live on a male dorm floor. Campus groups have asked the college to formally protect transgenders, but Harvard being Harvard, the university is studying the issue. Transgenders are pushing ahead in the courts as well. In a little-noticed...
...sensitive and expressive, and on the other, we saddle them with the culture's outdated notions of masculinity. The result is what Pollack calls the ever present "boy code"--a stoic, uncommunicative, invulnerable stance that does not allow boys to be the warm, empathic human beings they are. The "gender straitjacketing" starts, Pollack says, during the early years, when boys suffer their first and most momentous trauma: premature separation from their well-meaning mothers. Fearful that maintaining a close connection will result in the shaming of their sons (name calling from peers, disapproval from adults), mothers disconnect, usually...
...insult, reserved for women who want to conquer the world and all its men. But a woman's success is seldom a point she wants to "rub in" to members of the opposite sex. She may wish to be viewed as an individual, not as a representative of her gender. Sadly, our society is one that cannot differentiate between someone's proving a point as a woman and proving herself as a person. LAUREN RUTLEDGE, age 16 Okemos, Mich...