Archive for 'bodies'
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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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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Let's Talk About . . . Euphemisms
Right. So recently, my eighteen-year old little brother left home on his first major excursion without adult supervision. I was talking about this trip with my momma, and she asked me if I would be willing to give my bro the sex talk and drop him some condoms. Of course, I was totally cool with [...]
Posted: June 27th, 2007 under 30 Rock, Girls Gone Wild, Penn State, Self Objectification, Tina Fey, bimbo, birth control, bodies, catcall, college, condom, feminism, harrassment, menstruation, naked, objectification, period, pop culture, religion, secretary, sex, sex education, sex positive, sex positivity, sexual harrassment, sexuality, shame, sleaze, stereotype, the sex talk, womanhood.
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32 Flavas of That Bootylicious Radio Monopoly
Recently, I was dancing around my kitchen to my local Clear Channel top 40 station for hiphop and r&b. The song was Crime Mob’s “Rock Yo’ Hips,” and I stopped stirring the corn bean salad in disbelief when Diamond’s solo came on. She was making a (veiled), but definitely unmistakeable reference to Ani Difranco’s song [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2007 under 32 flavors, Ani Difranco, Clear Channel, Crime Mob, Female Sexuality, Rock Yo' Hips, Self Objectification, bodies, bootylicious, commercial radio, diamond, feminity, girl, hip hop, izzle as a suffix, lyric, monopoly, music video, objectification, pretty, radio, rap, self image, ugly.
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Bleeding-Heart Naturalism: Renewing Discussion of The Pill
So recently, my friend Rishi threw me some great articles about the Pill and the evolutionary context of menstruation (thanks, Rish!). The first is a long but intriguing article from the New Yorker detailing the history of the discovery that women, in general, did not have as many periods in pre-industrial society as they do [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2007 under ABC News, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Lybrel, Monty Python, New Yorker, Renaissance, Sex Roles, Slate.com, Women and Gender Studies, bleeding, bodies, breast cancer, conservative, contraceptive, cramps, environment of evolutionary adaptiveness, erection, evolution, evolutionary theory, gender roles, homosexuality, incontinence, men, menarche, menstrual period, menstruation, migraines, mood swings, natural selection, nausea, ovarian cancer, ovulation, period, psychology, respect, self defense, the pill, theory, uterine cancer, wet dream, women's health.
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Definitions: Sex, Oral Sex, Children, and Consent
Yesterday, the New York Times reports, Genarlow Wilson was released from prison after having “served two years of 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with another teenager at a party when he was 17.” What?! This is the same act that, according to a 2002 survey conducted among teenagers in South Boston, is [...]
Posted: June 12th, 2007 under Atlanta, Female Sexuality, Genarlow Wilson, Georgia, HIV, Latin, Massachusetts, Rome, STIs, Self Objectification, South Boston, Wikipedia, agency, anal sex, arousal, birth control, bodies, child, child molestation, child molestor, chlamydia, consent, criminal, deep throat, fellatio, felony, female orgasm, feminism, gang rape, gonorrhea, herpes, kissing, misdemeanor, oral rape, oral sex, parole, pre-Christian, sex, sex research, sexual pleasure, sexual responsibility, sexually transmitted infections, teen sex.
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Rational Woman/My Philosophy by KRS-ONE: Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody
There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. -Albert Ellis (Ironic Curtsy: Irrational Woman) In her essay “Sexual Difference and the Problem of Essentialism,” Elizabeth Grosz writes of the problematic implication of “patriarchal frameworks, methods, and presumptions” in contemporary feminist theory and rhetoric.
Posted: June 11th, 2007 under Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, Elizabeth Grosz, Emile Durkheim, KRS-ONE, Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody, My Philosophy, Paris Hilton, Randall Collins, Sex Roles, Smurfette, agency, biologism, biology, bodies, economics, emotion, femininity, feminism, feminist academics, feminist theory, gender, gender bias, gender roles, identity, irrationality, patriarchy, philosophy, psychology, rationality, reason, sex, sexual dimorphism, sexual inequality, society, sociology, theory, trust.
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