Word: males
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand we have Moral Reasoning. This year, for the first time in recent memory, a class will be offered on Confucian thought. Clearly, this is a step in the right direction, given that every other Moral Reasoning course is very white, overwhelmingly male and extremely dead...
...have Historical Studies, Literature and Arts, Science and Social Analysis. It would be unfair to deny scholars of different cultures their credit for offering non-white, non-male course in these areas, but for the most part, "Western Civ" abounds...
Like Harvard's administration and Harvard's faculty, Harvard's requirements are overwhelmingly white and male. In an administration it is annoying. In a faculty it shows a stuffiness, perhaps even prejudice, and more than a hint of the old-boys' network...
...soon noticed that in all the other mixed-sex canoes, the male was in the back (doing the rowing and steering), and the female was in the front, lightly paddling when she chose. My tiny masculine ego crawled from its shell...
Actually, they paddled over to save one of us. Julia. They left me and my male ego (now in the negative regions) to "pull the canoe over to the side." Unfortunately the canoe weighed on the order of 200 pounds and was filled with another 500 pounds of water. Only the Incredible Hulk could have pulled that canoe to the side against the current...