Tag: political correctness

• The Feast of Fools

  It’s hard to switch sides, isn’t it? Hard to cross the tracks. And even if you do, does welcome await, or merely sidelong glances and mistrust -or as Macbeth feared, curses not loud but deep, mouth honour, breath which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not…? It’s a brave person who crosses over […]

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  January 10, 2018

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  CBC Marketplace, CBC News, change, contra proferentem, cross-dressing, dress codes, Encyclopedia Britannica, Feast of Fools, Iago, Macbeth, normalizing, Othello, parodies, political correctness, servers, sexual discrimination, sexual harassment, Shakespeare, sides, women

• Non-Binary Gynaecology

  There was a time when I thought I had a handle on gender, but things change: it’s no longer constrained by only two choices. And then I thought I understood the variations on the theme of sexual preferences. I even learned their names. Now I’ve discovered that no less an authority than the New York […]

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  July 13, 2016

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  BBC news, Cornell University, Dennis Baron, Gender, gender identification, gender politics, language, New York TImes grammar, non-binary pronouns, political correctness, pronouns, Sally McConnell-Ginet, sexual preference, University of Illinois

• To Have, or not to Have

  There are two worlds out there, two Magisteria. Two contrasting inclinations that pass each other on the street without a wave. Strangers who sometimes know each other well. They sit, unwittingly close to each other, in the waiting room of my office. They chat and smile obligingly, trusting that their ignorance of the other is […]

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  June 2, 2015

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  acceptance, autonomy, Bell curve, Beneficence, decision to have a baby, Hamlet, Magisteria, Non-Maleficence, outliers, paedophobe, political correctness, pregnancy, regression to the mean, Selfish Shallow and Self-absorbed, societal apologue, tradition, tyranny of the Norm, Weltanschauung