Archive for 'abuse'
Global Pedophile Ring Smashed!
Check out the article from the New York Times. The scientific community is not yet sure if pedophilia is pathological, but contemporary Western mores teach us that pedophilia is wrong. Yet there are some cases that are in the gray areas. For example, the Genarlow Wilson case, in which a 17 year old was given [...]
Posted: June 19th, 2007 under Duke, Genarlow Wilson, Iriquois, Mike Nifong, Pornography, abuse, children, consent, cultural criticism, culture, exploitation, federal, fellatio, global, golf, justice, lacrosse, law, molestation, objectification, oral sex, pathology, pedophilia, psychology, rape, sex, sexual assault, sports, violence.
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Keep Your Socks On, I'm Cumming: Sex Positivity, Female Orgasm, Scientific Bias
In an article in the College Hill Independent from 2002, Ariana Green writes, “TEACHERS of abstinence-only sex ed have successfully followed Bush’s lead: they talk without ever saying anything of value. It’s an especially sad truth, right up there with the state of the economy and the administration’s hunger for war. Bush proposed to increase [...]
Posted: June 3rd, 2007 under A Hunger So Wide and Deep, Becky Thompson, Betty Dodson, Brown University, Carol Queen, Cunt, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, Dick and Jane, Exhibitionism for the Shy, Federation of Feminist Women's Health Clinics, Female Sexuality, Feminist Frontiers, Global Sex Survey, Hollywood, Inga Muscio, Italy, Lara Kaplan, Masters and Johnson, Museum of Sex, Natalie Angier, Padua, Pornography, Realdo Colombo, Ruth J. Simmons, STIs, Sex for One, The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist A, Time, UC Berkeley, Woman: An Intimate Geography, Women and Gender Studies, abortion, abstinence, abstinence-only, abuse, activist, anatomy, anxiety, arousal, brain, cervix, clitoris, contraception, cultural bias, cumming, education, embarrassment, empowerment, erotica, fear, female anatomy, female orgasm, feminism, gender bias, genitalia, genitals, government spending, herbalist, heterosexual, higher education, horror movies, intercourse, masturbation, men, midwife, neuroscience, orgasm, porn star, positron emission topography, right-handed, science, science and gender, sex, sex ed, sex education, sex positive, sex research, sex work, sex workers, sexpert, sexual pleasure, sexually transmitted infections, sin, speculum, stripper, trance, violence against women.
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I’m Not a Manhater; I Just Dream a Lot
I recently conducted a series of interviews for a sociology project here at my college. I surveyed my female peers’ ideas about their perceptions of the likelihood of rape, and, as an afterthought, their views on feminism. Over and over, I heard, “Well, I think of myself as a feminist in the sense that I [...]
Posted: May 19th, 2007 under 50 ft Woman, Attack, Big Pun, Civil Rights, Declaration of Independence, Dr. Martin Luther King, GDP, I have a dream, Man Hater, Manhater, Misogyny, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Thomas Jefferson, Women and Gender Studies, abuse, agency, bitch, college, economics, feminism, gender, homophobia, interview, jr., masculinity, masculinity crisis, men, racism, rape, slaves, sociology, stay at home dads, working moms.
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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.
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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.
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Study finds Black female college graduates 145x more likely to suffer abuse
Thanks to mparham for bringing my attention to Charreah Jackson’s shocking article in the Louisiana Weekly. According to a recent study by University of Arizona researcher Kameri Christy-McMullin, “When a woman makes more money, it is already known she is at a higher risk for abuse. What I had not expected was the intensity of [...]
Posted: May 8th, 2007 under Louisiana Weekly, Misogyny, abuse, college graduates, human dignity, love, racism.
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