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Russell's deliberative style was to remain neutral and "let the educational experts in the school system perform their duties, doing what they're hired to do," says School Committee member Joseph A. Grassi...
...Public women in America are wedged between two choices: present yourself in a gender-neutral or slightly 'masculine' way to be taken seriously ('substance'), or deploy your sexuality and charm ('the cunning of woman') to get ahead, but at the cost of not being taken seriously," Song wrote in that introspective piece...
...hesitate to use the words "women" and "female" because they seem to define half our population solely in terms of the other half, as if they were not to be valued independently. The supposedly gender-neutral "person" and "human" are just a slightly hidden examples of the same kind of implicit sexism. Therefore, until a better alternative reveals itself, I shall refer in this letter to those with two X chromosomes as The People Formerly Known As Women...
Editor's Note: The Harvard Crimson has a longstanding policy of using gender-neutral terminology...
...mixed descent, in the proportion of seven-eighths Caucasian and one-eighth African blood," bought himself a first-class ticket from New Orleans to Covington, Louisiana, and took a seat reserved for whites on the East Louisiana Railway. He was jailed for violating an exquisitely even-handed, race-neutral statute that forbade members of either race to occupy accommodations set aside for the other--with the exception of "nurses attending the children of the other race." Plessy insisted he was white, and when that failed, argued that criminal-court judge John H. Ferguson had violated his constitutional right...