Seems that a full-fledged gender-panic may be breaking out. As if the whole mishigas with Constance McMillen being told she couldn’t wear a tux to her senior prom weren’t enough, now a mom in Maple Shade, New Jersey has had a fit that has gone viral on Facebook about the humiliation her son would face […]
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Anyone interested in gender stereotyping should rejoice the decision released last Friday in Prowel v. Wise Business Forms. Brian Prowel describes himself as “effeminate” and that due to his effeminacy he was harassed and retaliated against at his job in violation of the sex discrimination protections contained in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act […]
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From Columbia Law School Professor Patricia Williams, via The Daily Beast: If the nation’s first female Solicitor General breaks a 139-year-old tradition and doesn’t wear a morning coat, can she still do her job with style? Of the details one misses with no television coverage of the Supreme Court, surely the quaintest is that the […]
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