Word: genderization
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...Lyman Common Room is an informal meeting place located in Agassiz House which hosts events dealing with gender and women's issues. Student activists pressing for a separate women's center have called the Lyman Common Room a possible starting point for a women's center, but say they find it an inadequate substitute...
...interested to learn that the FOP Steering Committee has changed the meaning of its acronym to "First-Year" Outdoor Program, ridding themselves of the politically incorrect, gender un-neutral word "Freshman." I have also noticed that a similar decision has been made by the editorial powers-that-be at The Crimson. While I respect the motives behond such decisions, I wonder if too much concern for gender neutrality might lead to some confusion...
...enters the Yard s/he is absorbed into the Harvard experience, whether or not he or she was a FOPper. He has all the riches of the university in front of her. (I'm switching pronouns, just to be fair.) That is, if s/he can get past the confusion of gender neutrality and political correctness. By that time, he or she may not even be sure if s/he...
...victim's white husband. Some community leaders insisted that if Harbour had been white and middle class instead of a poor black crack addict, the case would have been widely publicized. What they failed to note was that this crime was probably not about race but about gender. Before their rampage, the suspects, who were black and Hispanic, allegedly declared that they planned to "go rob females...
...ostensible goal of rights movements is a color-blind, gender-blind society. Activists are supposed to raise awareness of discrimination until the discrimination is fixed--and then the playing field is supposed to be level. Even though the playing field is still tilted against women, Margaret Thatcher proved that sometimes the best man for a job is a woman...