Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people can become "equal" members of society if they are ordered to keep their sexuality private, as Oppenheim would have it. The queer community can never be the "isolated moral and ethical enclave" that Oppenheim wishes it to be because youth from straight families often grow up to realize they are not heterosexual. I am not convinced that these separate queer and "wider" cultures can exist...
...longer presumes human beings to be white or professionals to be male. Our mores are now far more racially- and gender-inclusive. However, the acceptance of racial and gender difference may have been possible in our society only because such inclusions did not involve revision of our basic moral principles...
Actually, queer culture is not the only culture society tolerates but is reluctant to integrate. There may be a presumption of heterosexuality in this country, but there is also a presumption of Christianity. Religious minorities exist as isolated moral and ethical enclaves. They may have different mores within their communities, but they are kept separate and the wider culture is not expected to adopt them. And, perhaps, the wider culture should...
Back at school, with the weather gorgeous, it seems that nobody can stand to sit in lecture. In a certain slow-paced Moral Reasoning lecture held in Sander's Theater, students have been bailing faster than you can say "Confucianism...
...Women and children" attributes to women the same pitiable dependence and moral simplicity we find in five-year-olds. Such an attitude made sense perhaps in an era of male suffrage and "Help Wanted: Female" classifieds. Given the disabilities attached to womanhood in 1912, it was only fair and right that a new standard of gender equality not suddenly be proclaimed just as lifeboat seats were being handed out. That deference--a somewhat more urgent variant of giving up your seat on the bus to a woman--complemented and perhaps compensated for the legal and social constraints placed on women...