Word: genderization
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...fairies. Lapine's boldest experiment is to cast a woman (Marcell Rosenblatt) as Puck. But she has been directed to substitute screeching tomboyishness for sly sprightliness, and the resulting overaggressiveness is painful to watch, something like seeing the only girl on a Little League team overcompensate for her gender. Oberon is done to a star turn by William Hurt (Body Heat), who is so in love with the sound of his own voice that he refuses to let Shakespeare's be heard. He mashes the meter and minces a large portion of the play's enchantment...
...there may be another hitch in this arranged romance. Was Betsy a lady? The usual tip-off to gender at that age is size, but, Byrne admits, "We didn't run any blood tests." Maybe the eaglet had good reason to fly the coop...
Equality does not eradicate differences in gender, it exalts them, which should be some comfort to cowering sexists still clinging to every advantage they have ever wangled or wrung out of women. Equality is only a threat if reality is. In the rubble of busted pedestals and shredded stereotypes are the pieces of a new perception: of the real, working, workable way of equality, of self-awareness, of mutual respect...
...many females, home is still-as George Bernard Shaw noted-'the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse'; and far too often, the office or factory is no better for those women who work outside the home. To your special burdens of race and gender are also added the serious problems facing our entire nation. For far too many blacks, this country is still a land of mirage where shimmering lakes of equality and opportunity turn out to be dry, bitter sands of discrimination...
...good for women," but the depiction of the single man as a misfit is "nonsense," though she concedes that "single men will have a harder time in a society that is so marriage-oriented." Still, in France at least, De Singly has shifted the focus of debate on gender and economic success, just by directing his attention to marital status. The institution of marriage, he declares, is "an important variable...