Word: equalityã
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...frantic mission for “gender equality?? in romantic relations assumes that female patience, passivity, and committed endurance—perhaps the most demanding trials of all—are less equal. Despite the cultural message that “real” liberation eschews commitment, Kimmel wisely mentioned that girls generally seek something more than a consent-based hook-up. He light-heartedly suggested that girls who seek a commitment for their affections are hardly obsessive or clingy. By Kimmel’s own logic, holding men to a higher standard would benefit both...
...university that promises different sorts of “equality?? to students and workers is not offering equality at all. Promising rights to half of the community and denying them to others creates an atmosphere that engenders this kind of abuse—allowing homophobia to grow in what is supposedly a safe space. This is especially disappointing considering past efforts to guarantee a workplace free of verbal harassment and intimidation at Harvard. In the late 1980s, Harvard dining-hall workers fought to gain strong anti-discrimination language in their contracts. This progressive victory in the 1980s should...
...hardly extreme to claim that all Americans who value liberty and equality??not just those in uniform—should be deeply embarrassed by the profound systemic discrimination that DADT embodies. What kind of liberal democracy, after all, can passively abide what Faust rightly described last week as “a badge of degradation or second-class citizenship” for gay Americans...
...women who practice orthodox religion—principally, Islam, though also some more conservative strains of Christianity and Judaism—and who are therefore unwilling to publicly wear the sort of athletic clothes that Western women might wear in a gym. The problem is not one of equality??women are welcome to use gym facilities while veiled—but one of serving minority religious interests...
...Conservatives can sound reasonable when comparing a system that allows private money to flood in to one that bans it entirely. If a heiress wants to spend her millions on an untested cancer treatment, this should not be prohibited for equality??s sake...