Word: genderism
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...place--a family room rather than a bedroom--and watch where your children are clicking. Teach your kids safe computing: though talking to strangers can be a fun part of online communicating in chat rooms and such, never give real names, addresses or phone numbers. Don't even reveal gender or age. Explain that most sites that ask them to register for prizes are only trawling for info that can be used in annoying ways...
...sins against secularism include daily prayer, membership in a Fundamentalist church and a sincere belief in God--it caused barely a ripple. Blumenthal did apologize following a bit of Republican grumbling, but there was nothing like the uproar that routinely accompanies a public insult regarding, say, race or gender or sexual orientation. Indeed, the question of Ewing's alleged fanaticism so pricked the interest of the New York Times, zeitgeist arbiter of the Establishment, that it dispatched a reporter to investigate. The result is hilarious: a classic of condescension posing as judiciousness...
...SECOND SEX (1949) Originally published in France, Simone de Beauvoir's philosophical treatise on the condition of women in modern life contended, among other things, that gender is largely a social and political definition and thus capable of being altered. This idea quickly became an inspiration and rallying cry for nascent feminists everywhere...
...gate or a glossy brochure does not satisfy everyone. Many say that until Harvard increases the number of its tenured female faculty, creates a 24-hour rape crisis center like many of its Ivy peers and addresses issues like sexism in the classroom, the College's efforts to promote gender equality in undergraduate life this year are only empty gestures...
...Tamar March, dean of educational programsat Radcliffe, says that collaboration between thetwo schools is "not by design but by default." Shesays Radcliffe offers opportunities for theeducation of women by women that Harvard'sphilosophy of gender equality will not allow it toduplicate. Instead of co-sponsoring events, thetwo colleges are resigned to be divided...