Word: maleness
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...thought [the male editors] were terribly attractive,” she said of her decision to join the staff, calling it “ignorance...
...don’t think it even came up because the Lampoon was a male organization, and I don’t think that anyone was even considering at that point letting women come in,” former Lampoon President James D. Stanley II ’59 said recently. “Women didn’t ask to come in, and the men didn’t ask them to come...
...pioneer in her profession, Manson’s career in conducting has taken her through territory previously untraveled by her female counterparts. She cites her experience conducting the Vienna Philharmonic—an all male orchestra that did not even allow women to become full members at the time—as a turning point in her career...
...China also faces one of the most skewed sex ratios in the world: men outnumber women 1.2 to 1. The male surplus, which means many Chinese men will never be able to have a family, creates an ominous future; already, an underclass of young male thugs is proliferating in Chinese cities, a group easily recruited for crime. In Beijing's worst nightmare, these angry young men could turn against the state. As scholars Valerie Hudson and Andrea den Boer wrote in a 2004 book, in the mid-19th century unequal sex ratios, which left men idle, contributed to armed rebellion...
...Beverly Hills, servers warned their tables to leave. Hostesses evacuated people that they had seated but bypassed other sections (that weren't "theirs"). Cooks and busboys, perhaps accustomed to physical work, rushed to fight the fire. In general, male employees were slightly more likely to help than female employees, maybe because society expects women to be saved and men to do the saving...