Objectify This

So I was browsing my own blogroll the other day (yeah, that’s the thing down to the left), and I stumbled across this really interesting piece on double consciousness at, you guessed it, Double Consciousness. You’ll have to read it for yourself. Most of my education about double consciousness comes from my very wise Black [...]

So I was talking to my friend about porn the other night. She said that the most successful relationship she ever had was one in which she was “chill” about all of the things that might previously have caused her jealousy: her boyfriend’s tendency to slap her friends’ asses, and his giant porn collection. “I [...]

Last semester, I reluctantly acknowledged that I was not a biology major. I did this after I had long ceased taking classes in the biology department that were required for the major and didn’t pique my interest. I didn’t think of myself as a non-Bio major, but I didn’t think of myself as a non-non [...]

riiight. i’m escaping from the internet again. see ya on monday.

So let’s get meta. That’s the parlance of the blogging world, which I joined by accident because I signed up for a class about pop culture last semester. Metablogging is blogging about blogging, as this blog is. It’s called ‘meta’ for short, both by the software that supports the blog itself, and by bloggers in [...]

Feministing’s Weekly Feminist reader alerted me to F Word’s recent posting “Har Har,” in which Sara Anderson holds advertising exec Gerdien responsible for making a visual joke about the abuse of women by beating them with keyboards. Gerdien argues that since the ad was made by three women, it can’t be sexist, and states, “Because [...]

In her track “Work It,” Missy Elliot offers a wise approach to the objectification-heavy world of commercial hip hop: “I’m not a prostitute, but I can give you what you want.” The hit single “Work It” both employs the blatant objectification of women (with images, in the video, of women bending over in hootchie shorts [...]