Word: genderism
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...different floors. The panel, headed by former Kansas Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker, went on to visit 16 other bases and interview some 1,000 recruits and 500 instructors. What they found only confirmed their initial alarm. Last week the panel issued a report recommending that the military end mixed-gender barracks altogether. Furthermore, the study raised as its ideal the policy to which the Marines have adhered all along: single-sex basic training ("boot camp"), segregated barracks and tougher physical training. The report was immediately assailed not only by feminists but by military insiders. Coed training at all levels...
...what about supervision? The service is so afraid of drill sergeants engaging in sexual improprieties with recruits that the sergeants essentially are under orders to stay away from mixed-gender barracks at night. That, said an Army inspector general's report, opens "a potential window for trainee-trainee sexual misconduct." Indeed, until now the Army's preoccupation had been the behavior of its sergeants, to the point where local commanders at Fort Leonard Wood had ordered the doors to sergeants' offices taken down as well. When the sergeants complained, the doors were put back. But the doorknobs were left...
...White House, the effort to promote diversity has actually divided the President's staff along racial and gender lines. Several top Clinton aides gave up on the initiative months ago, complaining that it had been "co-opted" by women and minorities on the staff who wanted it to be more of a feel-good outreach program than a launching pad for specific policy proposals. Tensions have been exacerbated by resentment over the fact that for all of Clinton's rhetoric about a multicultural White House, his decision makers have almost always been white males. "The white boys don't like...
...came again to my mind. When we receive our degrees on a hopefully pleasant June day in the not-so-distant future, not only will the inscriptions on them differ according to the various fields of study of the recipients, but they will also differ according to the gender of the recipients. For, while undergraduate women at this University attend Harvard College classes, live in Harvard College dormitories, take their meals in common dining halls and in every other conceivable way share with their male counterparts in the Harvard College experience, when it comes time to receive our degrees, those...
Perhaps the greatest weakness of Your Own Thing is its disturbing and blatantly unpolished handling of the homoerotic themes of Twelfth Night. Whereas Twelfth Night skillfully raises questions about the nature of gender and love, in Your Own Thing, homoerotic love is merely a mistake. Olivia the vamp falls in love with Viola-as-Charlie purely by accident, and Sebastian-as-Charlie steps in soon enough (earlier than in Twelfth Night) to rescue Olivia from the realization that she was really in love with a girl. Orson becomes aware of Viola-as-Charlie's affection for him and paces across...