Archive for March, 2008
Oxford Prodigy Now A Hooker…
Yep. Check Amherstdam for the details from the Daily Mail while I groan at my thesis.
Posted: March 31st, 2008 under Female Sexuality, exploitation, hooker, lonely, oxford, prodigy, prostitute, prostitution, sex, sexuality.
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We're Back….Because Professor P is a Baller
Thanks for waiting out that unfortunate change of template. It turns out that the combination of the Tina Fey and Sarah Silverman videos had overloaded things. However, thanks to Professor P’s amazing skillz, (check her out here) we’re back up and running. This song (after the jump) is a partial expression of my gratitude.
Posted: March 26th, 2008 under Sarah Silverman, Tina Fey, baller, cyberspace, hip hop, i wish, overload, professor p, skee lo, template, video, wishlist.
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The Sexual Paradox: Or, Women are from School, Men are from Work
In this recent article from the New York Times about Susan Pinker’s new book, The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap, Emily Bazelon writes, “In her zeal, Pinker veers to the onesided. She doesn’t acknowledge that some of the research cited in her footnotes is either highly questionable as social science (Louise [...]
Posted: March 25th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Tags: add, adhd, aspergers, attention deficit disorder, autism, center for disease control, difference, difference feminism, discrimination, feminism, feminist, gender, gender attitudes, gender gap, medication, paradox, revolution, school, science, sex, sexual, sexual assault, sexual harrassment, social science, work
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Midwifery: Keeping Ya' Mama From Getting Cut For 5 Million Years
Don’t get me wrong. I love electronic culture. It gives me access to everyone else who has access to it, which is a lot of people. But it’s not everyone. And because of the necessarily exclusive nature of it, what gets lost is the full community experience. This is, for many, a digital age, and [...]
Posted: March 21st, 2008 under Female Sexuality, adaptiveness, anthropology, assisted birth, barack, biological anthropology, bipedalism, birth, birthing, brain, culture, digital, electronic, eminence, environment, episiotomy, evolution, evolutionary, female, fetal skull, isolation, labor, mammal, maternal, medical anthropology, midwife, midwifery, modernity, obama, pelvis, pregnancy, primate, sexuality, skull, surgery, tribe, vaginal cutting.
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Whassup, Bitches?: Female Chauvinism's Place is in the Garbage.
This poll discussed over at Slate in the article “Man Up!” found that “Despite the recent frenzy of media attention over the issue of race in America, a new poll by CBS (PDF) suggests that gender may cause more problems for contemporary presidential contenders. Thirty-nine percent of those polled think that a woman candidate would [...]
Posted: March 20th, 2008 under Bush, Tina Fey, bitch, bitch is the new black, bush-clinton, candidate, chauvinism, clinton, equality, female, female leader, female president, feminism, feminist, feminists, garbage, gender, gender power, heterosexual, hillary, inequality, know your place, leader, leadership, man up, poll, president, presidential, race, racism, sex, sexism, sexuality, snl, trash can, united kingdom, woman, woman president, womb, wombs.
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Speaking Truth To Power: The Canary In the Coalmine (Literally)
Fight the Culture of Hate! Vincent Navarro, formerly Jesse Jackson’s senior health advisor in the ’84 and ’88 Primaries, tells it like it is over at Counterpunch: HillaryCare Failed. That’s right, folks, the experienced cynical candidate might not have an advantage over the young, hopeful candidate. The experienced candidate might have been involved in a [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2008 under 08, 1492, Guantanamo, Ohio, Texas, United States, abduction, afghanistan, african-american, african-americans, american way, anti-white, baltimore sun, barack, barackaway, birds, black, black males, black panther party, black panthers, bomb, brunch, brutality, california, californian, canary, candidate, capitalist, caucus, change, charges, church, clinton, coalmine, colonial power, colony, corruption, crime, cub, culture, culture of fear, delegate, dementia, democrat, democratic, detainee, dictatorship, direct traffic, drug, drug use, drugs, election, enslavement, equality, exploitation, fairness, fear, federal, funding, gender, goods, government, group, health care, hillary, hillary care, hillarycare, hitler, homeland, homeland security, hope, human, human rights, imperialism, international, jesse jackson, justice, law, lean back, male, males, manipulation, men, mental health, mining industry, minor, neighborhood, neocolonial, non-violent, oakland, obama, panthers, party, police, politics, possession, power, presidency, president, primary, profit, proletariat, property, race, radical, reagan, regime, rich, rights, rockaway, scandal, security, services, sex, stalin, state, sulfur-coloured seed eater, superdelegate, surrendur, system, ten point, ten point program, terror, terror squad, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists, toddler, totalitarian, totalitarianism, u.s. government, uncle sam, vibe, vincent navarro, violation, violence, war, war on drugs, welfare, white.
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Earth Liberation Front: Cloudy With A Chance of Arson
Check out the recent actions of the Earth Liberation Front, or ELF. According to Jo Swift, “The Earth Liberation Front published guidelines for action are: * To inflict maximum economic damage on those profiting from the destruction and exploitation of the natural environment. * To reveal to, and to educate the public about the atrocities [...]
Posted: March 4th, 2008 under animal liberation, animal liberation front, arson, earth liberation, earth liberation front, economic sabotage, ecoterrorism, educate, elf, environment, environmentalism, government, guerrilla warfare, leadership, membership, public, radical politics, seattle, spokesperson, suburbia, terrorism, u.s. government.
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