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Title: Gender-neutral housing is about fairness
Post by: Butterfly on December 04, 2009, 10:46:49 PM
Post by: Butterfly on December 04, 2009, 10:46:49 PM
Gender-neutral housing is about fairness
The Bowdoin Orient
By Jimmy Pasch
04 December, 2009
http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2009-12-04§ion=2&id=8 (http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2009-12-04§ion=2&id=8)
Gender-neutral housing at Bowdoin is a necessary step to create a more just, equal and free environment for all students. The present system relies upon and upholds assumptions of a heteronormative gender binary, and in the process marginalizes students who do not fit into this limited mold while restricting the freedom of all students.
The Bowdoin Orient
By Jimmy Pasch
04 December, 2009
http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2009-12-04§ion=2&id=8 (http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2009-12-04§ion=2&id=8)
Gender-neutral housing at Bowdoin is a necessary step to create a more just, equal and free environment for all students. The present system relies upon and upholds assumptions of a heteronormative gender binary, and in the process marginalizes students who do not fit into this limited mold while restricting the freedom of all students.