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  • Art3mis: At least they got your gender correct.†   (source)
  • We ruled out blood type, gender, physical size, intelligence factors, genetic markers-nothing seemed to account for the negatives.†   (source)
  • The Court had repeatedly made clear, though, that the Constitution does not require that racial minorities and women actually serve on juries—it only forbids excluding jurors on the basis of race or gender.†   (source)
  • Oh, they got in on the beginning of the gender selection experiments.†   (source)
  • "Gender transition," Grant said.†   (source)
  • Immediately, the guards divided our group by gender.†   (source)
  • Acreage and financing were facts as basic as name and gender in Zebulon County.†   (source)
  • BIRTH NAME: DANIEL ALTAN WING
    AGE/GENDER: 15/M; PREY.†   (source)
  • Gender, sexual orientation, height, colour of skin and eyes — it's all on order, it can all be done or redone.†   (source)
  • This was before kids of all races and genders started appearing on milk cartons or in the daily mail.†   (source)
  • "Don't get so hung up on gender roles," Eleanor said.†   (source)
  • The quarantine had been near empty before; now it was overflowing with victims—every age, every gender.†   (source)
  • …had been filed from Everest via a coded radio message (to prevent competitors from scooping the Times) by a young correspondent named James Morris who, twenty years later, having earned considerable esteem as a writer, would famously change his gender to female and his Christian name to Jan. As Morris wrote four decades after the momentous climb in Coronation Everest: The First Ascent and the Scoop That Crowned the Queen, It is hard to imagine now the almost mystical delight with which…†   (source)
  • Stereotypes of color, race, and gender are slowly disappearing.†   (source)
  • We may find out the baby's gender."†   (source)
  • One is not "gender-specific," as they say these days (psychoactive substance abuse).†   (source)
  • But Pascal quickly forgave me, and it's a good thing, since friends of my own age and gender were not available, the girls of Kilanga all being too busy hauling around firewood, water, or babies.†   (source)
  • Their faces remind me of those visual puzzles that shift forms as you stare; sometimes Betty's face looks undeniably female and ten seconds later the sense of gender is gone and I think of her (him?†   (source)
  • In the years after the Great War, the scene reminds us, ideas were judged on the basis of the class and gender of the person putting them forward.†   (source)
  • If I want to change shape, or age, or gender, or species, I simply wish it to happen and—ka-bam!†   (source)
  • This is the gender that invented the polio vaccine?†   (source)
  • Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a betrayal of gender, of species.†   (source)
  • Gods have no gender.†   (source)
  • Clary turned instant traitor against her gender.†   (source)
  • Mackenzie, I am neither male nor female, even though both genders are derived from my nature.†   (source)
  • Moon was proud of her as both a musician and a gender-busting pioneer.†   (source)
  • It was what her dad always did for her mom on their anniversary, and don't think I don't see the gender roles here, that I don't get the hint.†   (source)
  • It was against all scientific reason for two people who hardly knew each other, with no ties at all between them, with different characters, different upbringings, and even different genders, to suddenly find themselves committed to living together, to sleeping in the same bed, to sharing two destinies that perhaps were fated to go in opposite directions.†   (source)
  • From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy, the targets of serial killings are usually connected by similarities in age, gender, race, or a combination of the three.†   (source)
  • This was his last ride as a fully equipped member of the male gender; the least I could do was give him a little fresh air.†   (source)
  • In Heaven there is complete equality of the sexes because all physical gender differences cease to exist.†   (source)
  • The walk to the rendezvous point was an interminable one, and as they walked Saeed and Nadia did not hold hands, for that was forbidden in public between genders, even for an ostensibly married couple, but from time to time their knuckles would brush at their sides, and this sporadic physical contact was important to them.†   (source)
  • Gage being drafted to make breakfast today is an example of the basics in non-gender-specific teamwork.†   (source)
  • He wrote his senior honors thesis on "gender inequality and depression," no doubt in part because the medical anthropologists he knew were all psychiatrists.†   (source)
  • Simple ones-like age, gender, birth order, weight, religion, marital status, number of children-and more complex accounts, like political views and religious affiliations.†   (source)
  • We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender, and other discrimination.†   (source)
  • She wanted to be able to play pickup games of soccer with whoever was around, without regard to gender.†   (source)
  • He got his first clue as to their genders when he deduced that the huge ant in the heart of their underground lair was laying eggs, one every minute or so, which made it-her-a female.†   (source)
  • Maybe I didn't remember the "right" way to interact with someone of the opposite gender, but I'm pretty sure Martin didn't, either.†   (source)
  • A player's trivia-answering ability is presumably the only worthwhile factor to consider; race, gender, and age wouldn't seem to matter.†   (source)
  • On this particular evening she announced that a gender awareness class would be offered in the dining hall.†   (source)
  • The big gender difference with negative emotions is that women are more critical, and men are more likely to stonewall.†   (source)
  • At Dinner Dad was outnumbered gender-wise, and hurting for a snort.†   (source)
  • Amartya Sen, the ebullient Nobel Prize-winning economist, has developed a gauge of gender inequality that is a striking reminder of the stakes involved.†   (source)
  • I saw the baby's thick dark hair, her broad face, saw how her brother's features were held in hers in gender form.†   (source)
  • Nestor and Blanca gave the baby ridiculous nicknames that they decided were gender-neutral.†   (source)
  • Before we climbed upstairs to the second floor, one teacher read out our names and divided us into groups according to our age and gender.†   (source)
  • It had been a long, hard time since I had put my trust in anybody whose gender started with an M. Maybe, in a different time … I was thinking.†   (source)
  • "I have this strong feeling, though, that it's not," she ventured, not sure if her hunch about the baby's gender 'was just a desperate wish.†   (source)
  • Ferraro made a soft clucking noise, as if he had intuited the problem and its gender; easing the chair into a reclining position was Ferraro's first step to finding a solution.†   (source)
  • You can't measure anything about them scientifically, although, of course, there are genetic differences between the genders.†   (source)
  • One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles—Men and Guys.†   (source)
  • I found I was enjoying it all immensely, and once I even caught myself reading aloud from a Talmud—it was the grammatical discussion of the gender of "derech," road, in the tractate Kiddushin— before Reb Saunders realized what I was doing and told me to stop, I wasn't allowed to use my eye yet, Danny would read the passage.†   (source)
  • The gender thing is a giveaway, though.†   (source)
  • He also stands against procreation regulation, gender adjustment, chemical balancing, and the gun ban.†   (source)
  • He believes April's "difficulty with the language" to be a reflection upon her intelligence, and probably her gender, if truth be known; John suffers behind a single-minded, simpleton view of a woman's purpose on this earth-to provide men certain unspeakable pleasures and to bear children.†   (source)
  • I got into the topic through my girlfriend—her name is Mia Johansson and she's a criminologist and gender studies scholar.†   (source)
  • Hannah, Nel, Eva, Sula were points of a cross—each one a choice for characters bound by gender and race.†   (source)
  • An environment totally ruled by gender stereotypes and expectations, as pathetic as those who chose to inhabit it.†   (source)
  • More children, he told himself, the girl is not the only one, but Old Nan's tale of Genders children came back to him as well.†   (source)
  • "If they did, maybe girls like that," I pointed to the girl in front of us, who was wearing fake Uggs, a pink miniskirt, and a tight black sweater, "could grow out their leg hair to stay warm, and another gender inequity would be balanced, right?"†   (source)
  • Think, for example, of how you guys has now become a generic form of address: it is gender-, age-, and class-neutral, and decidedly informal.†   (source)
  • GENDER: Female†   (source)
  • I wasn't prepared for gender obsessions, race and class complexities, or the new-to-me idea that war and male leadership were part of human nature.†   (source)
  • With this body of files we could sift and sort through the population of the district by gender, race, ethnicity, party affiliation, occupation.†   (source)
  • To make up for your recent mistreatment at the hands of one of my gender.†   (source)
  • Those who had been briefed on its work referred to it only as the Minyan, for the unit was ten in number and exclusively male in gender.†   (source)
  • Whether marriage was between any two people, whatever their gender!†   (source)
  • Mine had been the fury of resentment born of fear: resentment against the beasts who had en- gendered naked terror in me and who, by so doing, had intolerably affronted my human ego.†   (source)
  • "I'd rather not say," I replied, hoping it would give me an edge of some kind, and now that I knew Bleys' gender: "If he had, I'd have answered him the same as I would Eric-'I'll think about it.†   (source)
  • The two others have purple placards hung around their necks: Gender Treachery.†   (source)
  • They strike me as polemical, as angry indictments of Afghan gender roles.†   (source)
  • Not all of those Gender Traitors end up on the Wall.†   (source)
  • If you're upset about gender confusion, Leah ….†   (source)
  • The other indent was morbidly obese, and I couldn't be sure of the person's gender.†   (source)
  • Non-gender-specific teamwork, he thought.†   (source)
  • The cheaper option is to buy "straight run" birds of unknown gender.†   (source)
  • Other than that, they melted into the gender-subdivided world of their peers.†   (source)
  • My sisters are not venomous, but whether that's due to gender or a random chance… who knows?†   (source)
  • He could tell nothing about it—not age or gender or even species.†   (source)
  • We could go look for Genders children, I suppose.†   (source)
  • Their line these days is that great art transcends gender.†   (source)
  • She said to me, "Gender is not an issue in this house."†   (source)
  • I'd recently noticed that she had become a staunch defender of her gender.†   (source)
  • -I am a Rider and friend. elda-a gender-neutral honorific of great praise Eyddr eyreya onr!†   (source)
  • "There aren't any flashing gender signs in urine, but there are things to look for.†   (source)
  • She thought that if she became an einherji, she'd be stuck in one gender forever.†   (source)
  • Still, many modern-minded Muslims are pushing for greater gender equality.†   (source)
  • But most of all you're sexual—you like sex and you don't care about what gender.†   (source)
  • And they responded perfectly well to neutral gender terms such as "it."†   (source)
  • All machines have genders, and that BMW was a royal "she."†   (source)
  • But there isn't any gender difference when it comes to contempt.†   (source)
  • I used to wonder how Radchaai reproduced, if they were all the same gender.†   (source)
  • It's none of your business which gender her partner is or how they conduct their sexual relations.†   (source)
  • They have five, seven, or nine legs, depending on which gender they are, right, Wanda?†   (source)
  • What it means is that our attitudes toward things like race or gender operate on two levels.†   (source)
  • In this sense there is a sort of gender perspective to my thesis.†   (source)
  • Gender-fluid people are hardly a new thing, Magnus.†   (source)
  • The society she lived in professed at the same time to believe gender was insignificant.†   (source)
  • "Not bad for a collection of gender-impaired public servants," Claire agreed.†   (source)
  • These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed.†   (source)
  • Every year, at least another 2 million girls worldwide disappear because of gender discrimination.†   (source)
  • "A gender …. whatever you said," Thor amended.†   (source)
  • I could find a way to keep avoiding referring to the barkeep's gender.†   (source)
  • It's not often that a researcher can establish roles along gender lines so clearly.†   (source)
  • At first I wondered if it had just been a throwaway comment—a non-gender-specific dude.†   (source)
  • In short, all of us need to become more cosmopolitan and aware of global repression based on gender.†   (source)
  • A profusion of colors that would have been gender-marked in other places.†   (source)
  • Both offices would press to make gender-based violence a diplomatic priority.†   (source)
  • Hoping as I spoke that it was a mixed-gender group, as my sentence indicated.†   (source)
  • And my gender hasn't changed, thanks for asking."†   (source)
  • "A gender-fluid person," Alex corrected.†   (source)
  • Women leaders were then judged by gender-neutral standards.†   (source)
  • What gender had she assigned to the Lord of the Radch?†   (source)
  • "As long as you don't ask me to represent every gender-fluid person for you, okay?†   (source)
  • I'm going to fix this chariot so our gender argr bride can use it tomorrow.†   (source)
  • The gender thing wasn't what surprised me.†   (source)
  • I'd been stuck in one gender my whole life.†   (source)
  • I'm gender fluid and transgender, idiot.†   (source)
  • No one knew Helba's true sex, for Helba's was the habit of alternating gender with each incarnation.†   (source)
  • An African American woman, she was adept even in environments where her gender or race made her an outsider.†   (source)
  • Rather, Ban-ford's demise figures the sexual tensions and gender-role confusion of modern society as Lawrence sees it, a world in which the essential qualities of men and women have been lost in the demands of technology and the excessive emphasis on intellect over instinct.†   (source)
  • Having shed the human imperfection of gender along with the earthly pull of sexual temptation, Mal'akh had become like Ouranos, Attis, Sporus, and the great castrati magicians of Arthurian legend.†   (source)
  • We want male and female to be counterparts, face-to-face equals, each unique and different, distinctive in gender but complementary, and each empowered uniquely by Sarayu from whom all true power and authority originates.†   (source)
  • Impolite terms, used intramurally, were meant as philosophical rebukes to the misplaced preoccupations of those who believed in "identity politics," in the idea that all members of an oppressed minority were equally oppressed, which all too conveniently obscured the fact that there were real differences in the "shaftedness," also sometimes called the "degrees of hose-edness," that people of the same race or gender suffered.†   (source)
  • But she began to find him alarming: He talked as if they were engaged, he knew the number and gender of their children.†   (source)
  • They'd gone back to gender groups.†   (source)
  • We bring an individual history to our reading, a mix of previous readings, to be sure, but also a history that includes, but is not limited to, educational attainment, gender, race, class, faith, social involvement, and philosophical inclination.†   (source)
  • The school's strictly enforced dress code required that all student avatars be human, and of the same gender and age as the student.†   (source)
  • None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.†   (source)
  • Darley, the narrator of the first and fourth volumes, tells us that there are at least five genders (although he leaves specifying them to our imaginations) in Alexandria, then shows them to us at full throttle.†   (source)
  • A few years later, when she started attending school online, her mother lied about her daughter's race and gender on the application.†   (source)
  • They were all required to use the same hulking male avatar (regardless of the operator's true gender), with close-cropped dark hair and facial features left at the system default settings.†   (source)
  • Historians have often struggled to deal with women who do not respect gender distinctions, and nowhere is that distinction more sharply drawn than in the question of armed combat.†   (source)
  • But my actual gender?†   (source)
  • All genders are equal.†   (source)
  • If you term it as gender.†   (source)
  • At the time, the story was not as touching to me as it is now, but I suppose this was a function of my age and gender.†   (source)
  • Writer's a word without gender.†   (source)
  • It's so exclusive it has no gender.†   (source)
  • They have three different genders.†   (source)
  • My other brothers were salaried people and so were considered in the same way as city folk—one child only, regardless of gender.†   (source)
  • The camp grew so large that the controllers staggered our schedules, so we ate by color and gender—and even then, it was still a tight squeeze fitting everyone at the tables.†   (source)
  • A fantasy in cyberspace and a way of seeing the other side and a settling of differences that have less to do with gender than with difference itself, all argument, all conflict programmed out.†   (source)
  • That Liberian refugee and a white southerner might seem to have little in common if categorized according to race and place of origin, but they might share gender, religion, their identity as single parents, and most powerfully, a concern for the safety of their immediate environment.†   (source)
  • Intersexual—A term adopted for people born with genitalia neither male nor female, as part of a movement to prevent surgical alteration to a gender arbitrarily decided by a doctor.†   (source)
  • "Risley continues her disconcerting deconstruction of perceived gender and its relationship to perceived power, especially in respect to numinous imagery," she says.†   (source)
  • "All genders?" whispered Nudge.†   (source)
  • She was certainly better looking than many of the prisoners who had been born to our gender, but close quarters revealed some of her more masculine qualities.†   (source)
  • The key to measuring the Weakest Link voting data is to tease out a contestant's playing ability from his race, gender, and age.†   (source)
  • Score one for gender over race.†   (source)
  • But gender specific or not, I kind of liked the idea of searching for something you'd lost or needed.†   (source)
  • Rachel and Jeremy kept a low profile, moving around the edges of the crowd, as Rachel showed him the paintings of various members of the Lawson family who shared a striking resemblance not only from one generation to the next but, strangely, across genders as well.†   (source)
  • Besides these important ethnic influences, California's leading-edge culture entails a tolerance for gender diversity that has been well ahead of most of America for at least two generations.†   (source)
  • Rob talks excitedly about biology-his probable major-and how it's okay that he can't get into Biology and Gender, a hot-button course at Brown, because he can get into Marine Biology, one of his passions.†   (source)
  • -It is done. drajl-spawn of maggots nar-a gender-neutral title of great respect Synopsis ofEragon , Book One of Inheritance Eragon-a fifteen-year-old farmboy-is shocked when a polished blue stone appears before him in the range of mountains known as the Spine.†   (source)
  • The ECLS measured the students' academic performance and gathered typical survey information about each child: his or her race, gender, family structure, socioeconomic status, the level of his or her parents' education, and so on.†   (source)
  • The data, covering more than sixteen million births, included standard items such as name, gender, race, birthweight, and the parents' marital status, as well as more telling factors about the parents: their zip code (which indicates socioeconomic status and a neighborhood's racial composition), their means of paying the hospital bill (again, an economic indicator), and their level of education.†   (source)
  • They thought to solve it by substituting synthetic voices so clearly nonhuman that people would not succumb to gender stereotypes, but people still did.†   (source)
  • The hearings left Thomas dazed and stumbling into an afterlife of bizarre duality: as both the most powerful black man in America and a walking, grimacing Rorschach on wrenching issues of race and gender.†   (source)
  • Music Research, a California-based firm, sent Kenna's CD to twelve hundred people preselected by age, gender, and ethnicity.†   (source)
  • She cursed her gender.†   (source)
  • Linguist Dennis Baron has studied the gender issue in language and says that feminism has also had its impact on which words women choose to use or not to use.†   (source)
  • We all have a strong prior association between a first name like John and the male gender, or a name like Lisa and things female.†   (source)
  • So they'll bring to bear not only understanding the words, but looking for what we call paralin-guistic cues, things like, What is the gender of the voice?†   (source)
  • The problem arises when the additional information of gender and race is factored into a decision about an individual patient.†   (source)
  • Transsexual—Originally denned as people who had undergone hormonal or surgical intervention to make a physical transition from one gender to another, but now applied more vaguely.†   (source)
  • What Ayres was trying to do was zero in on a very specific question: All other things being absolutely equal, how does skin color or gender affect the price that a salesman in a car dealership offers?†   (source)
  • It didn't help that cues meant to distinguish gender changed from place to place, sometimes radically, and rarely made much sense to me.†   (source)
  • As these girls grow up, she continued, "they join the ranks of illiterate girls, increasing the gender gap between men and women….†   (source)
  • "Even obvious synthetic speech, like Baldi's," Nass said, "will be assigned a gender, will be assigned an emotion, an accent, a location in the country, a personality—the entire range of things that we do when we hear a human voice.†   (source)
  • These salesmen may well have a strong conscious commitment to racial and gender equality, and they would probably insist, up and down, that they were quoting prices based on the most sophisticated reading of their customers' character.†   (source)
  • Gender and race are not irrelevant considerations when it comes to heart problems; blacks have a different overall risk profile than whites, and women tend to have heart attacks much later in life than men.†   (source)
  • Out of this new diversity has sprung a lexicon of new terms: Transgender—An umbrella term to encompass many forms of behavior, including transsexuals, transvestites, drag queens, drag kings, cross-dressers, female illusionists, gender benders, gender queens—although not limited to those definitions, and not all of those people want to be called transgender.†   (source)
  • " That's an exaggeration, but it underscores a central reality: AIDS is often a disease of gender inequality.†   (source)
  • I saw all the features that would mark gender for non-Radchaai—never, to my annoyance and inconvenience, the same way in each place.†   (source)
  • It may be politically incorrect to note these kinds of gender differences, but they are obvious to aid workers and national leaders alike.†   (source)
  • Almost wishing the Radchaai language concerned itself with gender so I could use it wrongly and sound even more foreign.†   (source)
  • Not long ago, researchers who analyzed the data from four large research studies that had followed thousands of people from birth to adulthood calculated that when corrected for such variables as age and gender and weight, an inch of height is worth $789 a year in salary.†   (source)
  • Since we weren't speaking Radchaai I had to take gender into account—Strigan's language required it.†   (source)
  • Muhammad himself was progressive on gender issues, but some early successors, such as the Caliph Omar, were unmitigated chauvinists.†   (source)
  • She laughed, short and bitter—whether because I'd chosen the wrong gender for the pronoun, or something else, I wasn't certain.†   (source)
  • As Stephen Lewis, the former UN ambassador for AIDS, puts it: "Gender inequality is driving the pandemic.†   (source)
  • Americans not only come across as patronizing but also often miss the complexity of gender roles in the Islamic world.†   (source)
  • Radchaai don't care much about gender, and the language they speak—my own first language—doesn't mark gender in any way.†   (source)
  • His wardrobe wasn't gender specific.†   (source)
  • The first would be a $10 billion effort over five years to educate girls around the world and reduce the gender gap in education.†   (source)
  • Like my parent, I'm gender fluid.†   (source)
  • Jen Shinnan and her cousin both spoke Radchaai, so there was no need to translate, nor any anxiety over gender or status or anything else that would have been essential in Tanmind or Orsian.†   (source)
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