Archive for 'child'
I Ain't No Hollaback Girl . . . & God is Brazilian.
Ok, I know that Gwen Stefani is not everyone’s role model, but she is mine right now, because I ain’t no hollaback girl. Right now, I’m in Rio de Janeiro, conducting thesis research, and there’s so much to see, do, and understand beyond the issue of the postcards with pictures of girls’ butts on them. Same [...]
Posted: January 17th, 2008 under God, beg, beggar, brazil, catholic, child, cristo rendator, girl, gwen stefani, hollaback, hollaback girl, hostel, inequality, jewish, omnipotent, omnivorous, pagan, religion, rio de janeiro, social inequality, thesis.
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Gender Normativity, Post-Mrs.Doubtfire Doubts, & A Drive-By Fruiting
I went to a dinner party a while ago, and it was really nice. I was camoflaged in adult clothes, and standing around with adults, chatting, and this child ran through. The child hesitated on the edge of our circle of tall obstacles, and then darted into the middle and out the other side. The [...]
Posted: November 9th, 2007 under abuse, adults, bitch, bowl cut, bowlcut, boy, child, crossdressing, dinner, dolce and gabbana, drive by, drummond, fair, fairness, feminism, feminist, fruiting, gender, girl, heart, henry, hippies, hit, human rights, humanism, humanist, idiot, idiots, inherit the wind, jezebel, justice, koreanish, male victim, mrs doubtfire, norm, objectification, objectification of men, partner abuse, partner violence, party, psychiatry, punch, rape, scopes trial, slap, violence, violent.
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Depression, Oppression, Gender Socialization, Other Pressing Things
It has come to my attention that about twice as many women are depressed as men. So let’s read about it. Here’s an excerpt from an essay by Marwan M. Kazimi on the link between gender and depression (or you can read the whole essay). Personality attributes of girls and boys have been linked to [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2007 under Research, Western, achievement, adolescent, anxiety, biological, child, children, cultural lens, dependence, depression, eating disorder, emotionality, fear, gender, gender differences, gender socialization, helplessness, hormone, intelligence, mental health, parental, passivity, peer, personality, psychology, rejection, risk, self-esteem, sex difference, sexual abuse, social, social stigma, societal factors, stereotype, stereotypes, symptom, women, women's studies.
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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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