Gender News: Tinder Updates Its Options, Leslie Knope Has a Message

Because I Was aamp160Girl I Was Toldamp8230In the days leading up to the election The New York Times asked women to share their stories of gender bias and barriers and some 1200 women responded Read their powerful stories here A few highlightsquotIn ninth grade we had to take a selfassessment for career guidance It was 1976 I had had straight As since fourth grade My assessment said I excelled at spatial and mechanical reasoning math and foreign languages Boys with similar scores were advised to look at careers such as engineering medicine and scientist The recommendations for me were stewardess teacher and bank tellerquotquotI was casting director at Rowan ampamp Martin39s LaughIn but I really wanted to be a writer They said no as the writers were all men and worked out of an apartment They wanted to be able to 39fart and strip down to their underwear39amp160and having a woman there would make that uncomfortable I found a manager the comedy icon Garry Marshall who managed young writers and was supportive of women and he got me an appointment for a new womanfocused show So I went on to become one of the first writers of The Mary Tyler Moore Show where they actively sought out womenquotquotI was 16 and a junior in high school I had been appointed cocaptain of my school39s robotics team Two boys who applied weren39t selected One was a friend He didn39t talk to me for a week My victory felt like a loss A few months later we were having a conversation and he said 39Well you39re only a captain because you39re a girl39quotTinder Updates Gender OptionsTinder has updated its gender options in efforts to be more welcoming to the transgender and gender nonconforming communities Time reports Instead of being able to only choose quotmanquot or quotwomanquot users will now have the option to click quotmorequot where they can input anything they want including 40 autofill suggestions amp160from trans to pangender to twospirit amp160provided in partnership with the GLAAD organization This change comes after reports of negative experiences including threats and bullying from other users quotWe39re really committed to making sure Tinder is a place for everyone We will do everything we can to make sure Tinder is a safe placequot Tinder CEO Sean Rad told Time quotGender is not binaryquot he continued quotIt39s really about how people see themselves and how they feel And we want to be more inclusive I hope as a society that we are more inclusivequotHere are the Racist Sexist Tweets that Put Columbia39s Wrestling Team Under InvestigationFirst Harvard and now Columbia Another college men39s team is under investigation after student paper Bwog released a batch of racist sexist group messages shared between members of Columbia39s wrestling team Deadspin reports They39re as disgusting as you can imagine The university responded by barring the team from attending an open meet and announced they will be launching an investigation stating quotColumbia University has zero tolerance in its athletics programs for the group messaging and texts sent by several members of the men39s varsity wrestling team They are appalling at odds with the core values of the University violate team guidelines and have no place in our communityquotA Letter to America from Leslie Knope Regarding Donald TrumpLeslie Knope has a message for young girls after the election of Donald Trump quotYou are going to run this country and this world very soon So you will not listen to this man or the 75yearold doughyfaced grayhaired nightmare men like him when they try to tell you where to stand or how to behave or what you can and cannot do with your own bodies or what you should or should not think with your own minds You will not be cowed or discouraged by his stream of retrogressive babble You won39t have time to be cowed because you will be too busy working and learning and communing with other girls and women like youquot Read the full letter written by a member of the Parks ampamp Recreation writing staff hereamp160More Headlines This WeekDonald Trump39s Victory is a Disaster for Modern MasculinityCongress Gets Diversity Boost with Record Number of Women of Color in SenateWomen Swear as Much as Men amp160So Here39s to EqualOpportunity CursingHow quotNeurosexismquotamp160is Holding Back Gender Equality amp160and Science ItselfAn Era for Women ArtistsGuess Which Gender is More Likely to be Verified on Twitter We39ll WaitClick the social buttons above or below to share this story with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this article are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated bloggers

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