Archive for March, 2009
Muslim Community Liaison Resigns Over Alleged Ties to the Muslim Community
Recently I was listening to this episode of This American Life (Act Two, to be precise) and realized that the American Muslim community is experiencing a frightening witch hunt. In short, Masan Azbahi was an Obama campaign liaison to Chicago’s Muslim community until he was accused of being a terrorist. Why? Because he had once [...]
Posted: March 27th, 2009 under Islam, Media, This American Life, discrimination, irony, media bias, muslim, obama, objectification, religion, religious extremists, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists.
Tags: anti-semitism, chicago, dow jones, fundamentalist, imam, investment, ira glass, irony, Islam, jamal said, masan azbahi, muslim, obama, racism, radical islam, terror, terrorism, wall street journal. this american life, war on terror
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Plan B: A Welcome "Miscarriage" of Justice
According to the New York Times, a federal judge ruled yesterday that Plan B (levonorgestrel), will be made available over the counter to women who are seventeen or older. The judge, Edward R. Korman, a Reagan-appointee, stated that there had been “political considerations, delays and implausible justifications” on the part of the F.D.A. The NYT [...]
Posted: March 25th, 2009 under FDA, a woman's right to choose, birth, birth control, contraception, contraceptive, contraceptives, crime, economics, egg, pro life, pro-choice, reproductive rights, war, women's health, women's rights, zygote.
Tags: abortion, casualties, children, choice, civilians, conception, contraceptive, contraceptives, crime, criminal, embryo, FDA, implantation, integrity, Iraq War, iraqi, minor, minors, miscarriage, mothers, pill, plan b, pro life, reproductive rights, susan wood, trimester, u.s. troops, unwanted babies, unwanted baby, women's rights, world population, zygote
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Figure It Out: The Truth about the Perfect Body
Are women’s magazines bad for women? It might seem like a stupid question. But when, as the New York Times reports, a University of Missouri study “found that looking at women’s magazines for 1-3 minutes had a negative impact on women’s self esteem. So imagine what happens if we’re bombarded by these images every day.” [...]
Posted: March 18th, 2009 under Female Sexuality, Media, Self Objectification, advertisement, advertising, agency, airbrushing, beauty, bodies, body image, gender, internalized oppression, make up, makeup, mass-produced, materialism, mental health, model, objectification, physical health, physical perfection, politics, popular culture, power, power dynamic, power structure, racism, reality, self, self acceptance, self image, self-esteem, self-loathing, sex, sexuality.
Tags: ads, advertising, advertizing, airbrushing, beauty, body image, france, health, keats, magazines, mental health, physical health, power, reality, retouching, self-esteem, steroids, truth, ugliness
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On Choosing Who Gets to Be Free: Feminism vs. Racism
Recently my girl Ashley pointed me to a post at Jack and Jill Politics. In my browsing there, I came upon yesterday’s post, “The Field Negro Smacks Down Shelby Steele’s Self-Hating BS.” While the post makes important points about the natural alignment of the black power movement and liberal politics’ focus on the government’s commitment [...]
Posted: March 17th, 2009 under Female Sexuality, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, politics, race, racial discrimination, racism, radical politics, remind my soul, sex, sexism, sexual capital, sexual inequality, sexual morality, sexual morals, sexual objectification.
Tags: academia, academic, agent, black panthers, black power, black women, bullshit, consciousness, conservative, eve ensler, FBI, feminism, feminist, field negro, ho, hypocrisy, idealism, latinas, liberal, Man Hater, martin luther king jr., people, politics, promiscuity, race, racism, self-hate, self-hatred, sex, sexual activity, sexually active, shelby steele, violence, war
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: Economics of Gender Inequality, Part 3
III. The Myth of the Broken Glass Ceiling in the Sciences In 2005, Larry Summers suggested that women might not enter scientific fields as often as men because of “innate differences,” according to this article from the Boston Globe. This infuriated the female scientific community, because scientific studies indicate that women don’t enter male-dominated fields [...]
Posted: March 13th, 2009 under economics, economy, gender, gender bias, gender culture, gender differences, gender disparity, gender equality, gender role, gender roles, gender socialization, pay, politics, wage gap, women, women in science, work, working conditions.
Tags: achievement, article, assignments, awards, career, citation, committees, competence, difference, distinctions, economics, economy, equality, experiment, faculty, female, female faculty, flexibility, gender, gender equality, gender roles, glass ceiling, grants, innate differences, journals, lab space, Larry Summers, lead author, male dominated fields, MIT, nature, obama effect, objective measure, pay, performance, progress, publications, rationality, Research, research grants, salary, science, scientific fields, scientific studies, self-perception, sex, sex differences, space, status, studies, study, teaching assignments, wage, wages, women, work, workforce
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