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...sketch, the characters stood on a darkened stage and told jokes, turning on flashlights whenever they spoke. In another, a character named XY (Rachel Marie Douglas ’09) explained her ambitions to become “the lightweight polyglot champion of the world...

Author: By Daniel B. Howell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: 'Umbrellas' Covers Surrealism With Comic Veneer | 3/18/2007 | See Source »

...center, because we will recognize that the Science Center and the Barker Center are just as much ours as any man’s. We will not rail hysterically against any suggestion of “innate gender differences,” but will rather curiously consider where XY and XX do diverge. Women’s frenzied wailing about our oppression at the hands of men only obscures the fundamental feminist truth: that we are all human beings with more in common than...

Author: By Justine R. Lescroart | Title: No Need to ‘Fuck the Man’ | 3/18/2007 | See Source »

...it’s “more overwhelming.” But he’s not surprised. “Female characters, female writers—there’s a natural link,” he says. But just because he’s the only XY in the room doesn’t mean he can’t connect with the literature. “I feel that my experiences aren’t all that different. With the course’s books, I don’t think it’s going...

Author: By Gracye Y. Cheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Odd Man Out | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

...drama about a 16year-old bat boy for a fictional New York baseball team, which Moonves told the admen would "make us much younger" on Tuesday nights. A show like Clubhouse, however, raises the question of what exactly male-friendly programming means. Last fall some executives blamed the XY flight on too many new shows with female leads (Karen Sisco, Miss Match). But casting men doesn't automatically mean attracting men. Clubhouse is a mostly male sports story, but it's also a coming-of-age tale that looks several notches too sentimental for the Punk'd generation. Likewise with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: What Do Guys Want? | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...premed pillow talk of “Biological”—“Some skin, billions of genes again it’s you. / XX, XY that’s why it’s you and me”—became a launching pad for an intergalactic jam that ebbed and flowed off into eternity, and would still be building to new crescendos were it not for the constraints of human energy...

Author: By Nathaniel A. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Air Ooze Sex Appeal at Avalon | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

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