Archive for June, 2007
Notes from an insecure country
Recently, I won some money and decided to visit a friend who is finishing up her semester abroad in Argentina. While, as one mentor of mine in high school put it, “Every woman has a funny relationship with food,” in Argentina, it’s an understatement. Somethingfishy.org, a website about eating disorders, reports that “In Argentina the [...]
Posted: June 30th, 2007 under Argentina, Female Sexuality, Self Objectification, anorexia, armor, bodies, bulimia, catcall, chastity belt, cigarettes, cosmetic surgery, eating disorder, economics, empanada, fat, food, identity, inflation, latin america, lonely planet, machismo, martini, mental health, objectification, physical health, pride, psychology, self acceptance, self-loathing, sex, smoking, south america, standard of beauty, tobacco, women's health.
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Hospitality: Coffee, Tea, or Me?
Flying makes a lot of people nervous. One of the strategies that airlines employ to help people relax is to objectify women all around them. This is still practiced at Hooters Air. According to Wikipedia, “In the 1960s and 1970s, many airlines began advertising the attractiveness and friendliness of their stewardesses. “National Airlines began a [...]
Posted: June 29th, 2007 under Female Sexuality, Pornography, Self Objectification, airline, beauty, binge drinking, bird flu, cabin crew, casual sex, corporate objectification, culture of fear, danger, discrimination, drug culture, fashion, fear, flight attendant, gender, gender role, hooters, marriage, objectification, pedophiles, pensions, plane, pregnancy, profession, sex, sexism, sexuality, standard of beauty, stereotypes, stewardess, stripping, terrorism, truancy, uniform, uniforms, union.
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Let's Talk About . . . Euphemisms
Right. So recently, my eighteen-year old little brother left home on his first major excursion without adult supervision. I was talking about this trip with my momma, and she asked me if I would be willing to give my bro the sex talk and drop him some condoms. Of course, I was totally cool with [...]
Posted: June 27th, 2007 under 30 Rock, Girls Gone Wild, Penn State, Self Objectification, Tina Fey, bimbo, birth control, bodies, catcall, college, condom, feminism, harrassment, menstruation, naked, objectification, period, pop culture, religion, secretary, sex, sex education, sex positive, sex positivity, sexual harrassment, sexuality, shame, sleaze, stereotype, the sex talk, womanhood.
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Hey Baby, You Appear to Be An Object Which I'd Like to Vociferously Appreciate and Possibly Harrass
Yesterday, I was in midtown with a friend, who was telling me the story of some assholes who had followed her around the night before. We had just had dinner, and we were on a mission for a cookie, so we stopped into a store, just as she was saying, “these guys were so disgusting, [...]
Posted: June 26th, 2007 under asshole, beauty, bitch, catcalls, cookies, culture, gender, objectification, rape, rape culture, sex object, sexual harrassment, threat, violence, violence against women.
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The Writing on the Wall: Fafi
When Fafi was eighteen, she started sneaking out of her parents’ home to make public art. Her work, which is cartoonish, features what her myspace page calls “powerful and active” images of girls. Fafi, now thirty-one, lives in France with her husband and children and travels the world to install her rogue pieces, which she [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2007 under 30 Rock, Dr. Faustus, Girls Rock, Italian Vogue, Japanese, Le Sportsac, MTV, Marlowe, Mash, Pornography, Self Objectification, The Face, angel, anime, art, artist, devil, fafi, fashion, female, female artist, femininity, graffiti, identity, money, mural, nipple, objectification, power, public art, race, sex, sex goddess, sexuality, spray paint, standard of beauty, stereotype, vandalism, wardrobe malfunction.
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