Archive for 'Argentina'
Good girl, bad girl, . . . awesome agent of self-liberation?
Spending all of that time (22 hours now) lying on floors and sitting in chairs and lying across chairs trying not to fall asleep because I needed to listen to the loudspeaker announcements in the Viru Viru airport would have been a lot less fun if I hadn´t had people to talk to. Nicole, a [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 under Argentina, Buenos Aires, Cartman, Catholicism, Cochabamba, Female Sexuality, Lima, Machu Picchu, Peru, South Park, Toranto, Viru Viru, airlines, airport, alcohol, baby seals, bad girl, bare hands, beer, boliche, catholic, culture, dildo, drinking, fatigue, forest firefighter, gender roles, good girl, grandmother, housewife, i do what i want, killing baby seals, latin america, laughter, masculinity, masturbation, mother, nervous laughter, orphanage, prankster, prostitution, razor, sex, sexual morality, shaving, spanish, spitting, tampon, wax, whorehouse.
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You Had Me At Hello: Sex, Power, Rape.
In castellano, as residents of Buenos Aires, who call themselves porteños, call their native language, there are about a hundred ways to say hello. ¿Qué onda, buey? which translates literally as “what wave, ox?”, and more figuratively as “what’s the vibe, dude?” is the friendliest of the bunch, and a common choice among the hip [...]
Posted: July 5th, 2007 under Argentina, Argentine, Buenos Aires, God, Juncal, Nixon, administration, bar, buey, campus, cardboard, castellano, college, country, dinner, dragon, english, feminism, gender, greetings, happening, hello, hoodlum, interview, kathleen barry, language, latin america, manners, martial arts, night, party, physical power, physical threat, porteno, power, provecho, que onda, que pasa, que tal, rape, respect, restaurant, retail, safety, semantics, sex, sexual assault, shag carpet, slang, sociology, spanish, street, syntax, threat, villa, walking alone at night, wealth disparity, weapons, what.
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Reserved to be Judged by God: Prostitution in Argentina
Last night, over wine ($3.50 a bottle) at a fancy club where most people were in awe of a celebrity named Gisela something who none of my compatriots recognized, someone I had just met told me the story of being pressured to join a prostitution ring. It was a long story, but it can be [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 under AMMAR, American, Argentina, Argentine, Argentine constitution, Bolivian, Buenos Aires, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Europe, Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation, Female Sexuality, Gisela, God, Mercy Plaza, Mujeres Creando, Ninguna mujer nace para puta, Once, Once Plaza, Plaza de la Merced, Plaza de la Puta, United States, VIP, activism, activist, arrest, awareness, breasts, brothel, cab, cabron, celebrity, club, condom, constitution, crime, curse, danger, english, fashion, feminism, feminist, fine, fur coats, garter belts, hijueputa, insult, jail, judge, law, marriage, national campaign, pedophile, police, prostitute, prostitution, prostitution ring, punk, retro-punk, scam, sex tourism, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, sexual violence, spanish, swear, taxi, the state, tourism, tourists, vandalism, whore, wine.
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Notes from an insecure country, part dos: las virgenes y las putas
The distinction between the sexes is an important battleground these days. Not only do women demonstrate the capacity to work outside the home, but we have also co-opted behaviors that were previously considered masculine, such as smoking, drinking, and having (gasp!) sexual relations without necessarily planning to marry our partner or be their baby mama.
Posted: July 2nd, 2007 under Argentina, Catholicism, Darwin, Female Sexuality, Research, catholic, center for science and culture, chaste, chastity, color contacts, conduct, culture, discovery institute, drinking, dyed hair, evolution, gay marriage, gender, gender roles, homosexuality, in vitro fertilization, intelligent design, latin america, lip ring, love, machismo, macho, male, maleness, marriage, masculinity, men, morality, premarital sex, prostitute, prostitution, researcher, scholar, science, scientist, sex, sexual morality, sexuality, smoking, target, theory, virginity, virtue.
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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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