Archive for May, 2007
8 Year Old Held For Mutilation, Burial of Barbie Doll
When I was a little kid, I had a love- hate relationship with Barbie, and in one of our relationship’s lower moments, I cut her hair off. Turns out that almost everyone loves to hate Ms. Perfect, at least according to this article from the Onion from nearly a decade ago. It’s okay – it’s [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2007 under Barbie, Blondes, Female Sexuality, Sex Roles, abuse, adolescence, agency, bodies, doll, doll experiments, hate, love, mental health, mutilation, psychology, self image, symbolism.
Comments: 7
Don’t Call Me Bitch, I’m a Grown Man!
This is Will Farrell’s skit “The Landlord” (thanks, Nicole!). [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEqPyxOOD-U] I want to talk about the ways in which the use of a female toddler as an authority figure becomes comic, but I also know that it’s going to become less funny from here on out. So if you loved the Landlord, just watch it [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2007 under Comedy, Madonna, The Landlord, Will Farrell, abuse, alcoholism, authority figure, baby, bitch, effeminate, femininity, homosexuality, rent, role reversal, toddler.
Comments: 1
Pinching Bottoms
Here’s this: Also, for more recent feminist billboard vandalism stories, check out this or this!
Posted: May 17th, 2007 under Billboard vandalism, Billboards, Cars, Fiat, Sex Roles, agency, bottoms, feminism, gender, men, photography, pinching, subversion.
Comments: 3
Navel Gazing
Okay, so there’s this issue that I haven’t exactly addressed yet, and it occured to me while I was reading a comment on Alas!’ post How I Became a Feminist. This comment, by Kate L., says, “does anyone who knows Jessica [Valenti, whose book, Full Frontal Feminism, is being discussed] anywhere that I can find [...]
Posted: May 17th, 2007 under Janet Jackson, Lindsay Lohan, Misogyny, Paris Hilton, R&B, blogging, exploitation, feminism, marketing, objectification, photography, psychology, stripping, subversion, the gaze, the pose, theory, wardrobe malfunction.
Comments: 1
Can I Kick It: Do Hip Hop Fans Have More Sex?
Today, while browsing del.icio.us, I came across a recent study, published by Reuters and since retracted, (perhaps because of the outrage sure to result from its borderline racializing generalization) proposed that hip hop fans have more sex in the last five years than people who listen to country music. According to HiphopRnBSoul.com, the study [...]
Posted: May 16th, 2007 under Britain, Female Sexuality, University of Leicester, casual sex, classical music, country music, crime, del.icio.us, emo, fucking, hip hop, hip hop culture, marijuana, marketing, mushrooms, music video, opera, pimp, psychology, racial profiling, racism, sex, social class.
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Heart Shaped Glasses/La Belle et Le Bad Boy
In a typically prescriptivist (definition) recent article from AOL, they wrote a horror-struck review of Marilyn Manson’s music video ‘Heart Shaped Glasses’, which stars the actress Evan Rachel Wood of Thirteen. The video portrays several scenes of sex, one of which involves a lot of random blood and (warning, plot spoiler to follow) the love [...]
Posted: May 16th, 2007 under AOL, Christian Parents, Evan Rachel Wood, Female Sexuality, Heart Shaped Glasses, La Belle et le Bad Boy, MC Solaar, Marilyn Manson, Self Objectification, Sex Roles, Thelma and Louise, Thirteen, agency, bad boy, fucking, love, music video, sex, subversion.
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This Is Not Sex: this is just a pose.
Check out this video essay, “A Web Essay on The Male Gaze, Fashion Advertising, and The Pose” by Thomas Streeter, Nicole Hintlian, Samantha Chipetz, and Susanna Callender. It makes a lot of the points about the representation of women in the contemporary media as differing from representations of men.
Posted: May 16th, 2007 under Female Sexuality, Sex Roles, The Media, exploitation, fashion, fashion photography, magazines, men, objectification, the gaze, the pose.
Comments: 2