Word: woman
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...know that, as a homeless woman, she is more likely than not to have been a victim of sexual violence both at home and on the street, but that's just from statistics, not from any knowledge of her specific situation. Because I really don't know anything about this woman, I would never think to write an opinion piece condemning her as lazy, conniving, undeserving, and fat, because to do so would be an embarrassing display of my ignorance and mean-spiritedness. It's too bad that George Hicks does not have the same self-censoring mechanism...
George Hicks makes a round of cruel and senseless comments about the homeless in Harvard Square. Beyond his ignorance on homelessness (which I won't address here), his contempt for obese people is downright disturbing. Hicks comfortably uses this woman's weight as a point of ridicule and a "fact" to disqualify her neediness. Hicks' snide confusion over an "obese beggar" demonstrates total ignorance about the nature of obesity and poverty. Hicks (an economics concentrator) is "missing something here." It's more expensive to be thin than fat in America today...
...female, I'm glad that he sees that a woman has a right to control her own body," said Renee J. Gasgarin '03. "But, as a person struggling for equality, I don't like that he cast me purely as a mother role, like fathers don't have anything to do with...
First, the dean must be a woman. This, Acting Dean of the Institute Mary Maples Dunn insisted last spring, is "essential...
...acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, who today becomes the only woman to head one of Harvard's 10 schools, Dunn will guide the new, $350 million Institute through its first critical days of self-definition...