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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: Notes on Gender Inequality, Part 1
The New York Times recently published an item about economic gender inequality that’s quite appalling. The report states that “nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job.” It continues, [...]
Posted: March 7th, 2009 under culture, discrimination, disrespect, sex discrimination, sexism, sexual difference, sexual inequality, social class, social inequality, socialization, sociology.
Tags: children, discrimination, disparity, economics, economist, economists, equality, financial success, gap, gender, have it all, having it all, interactive graphic, job, Manhater, marriage, marry, money, pay, paycheck, reproduction, sex, sexism, unfairness, wage
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'It's Not Rape if She Blinks Twice for Yes' and Other Phallacies of Rape Culture
The New York Times recently reported that yet another rapist is being let off of the hook – as the majority are. Nearly 95% of men standing trial for rape in the United States and the United Kingdom are cleared of all charges, which is a shocking number considering the social, personal and political consequences [...]
Posted: May 11th, 2008 under Attack, Female Sexuality, Misogyny, Research, Sex Roles, alcohol, chauvinism, chauvinist, consent, constitution, constitutional, court, cultural bias, cultural criticism, culture, definitions, degradation, democracy, discrimination, disempowerment, disrespect, domestic violence, equality, exploitation, exploitative, feminine, femininity, feminism, feminist, feminist theory, feminists, fuck, fucking, gang rape, gender, gender culture, gender disparity, gender dynamics, gender equality, gender power, gender role, gender roles, gender socialization, gender theory, gender violence, genitalia, genitals, government, human dignity, human rights, humanism, humanist, humanity, identity politics, inequality, injury, injustice, institution, intercourse, international women's day, justice, legal, legal definition, male perspective, male sexuality, maleness, males, masculine systems, men, misogynisitic, misogynist, misogynistic, misogynists, morality, object, objectification, objectification of women, partner abuse, partner violence, physical power, pop culture, popular culture, power, power dynamic, power structure, propaganda, punishable offense, rape, rape case, rape culture, rape trial, rape victim, rapist, rapper, respect, science, science and gender, self image, self-esteem, sex, sex object, sex partner, sex research, sexism, sexist, sexual abuse, sexual activity, sexual advance, sexual assault, sexual difference, sexual exploitation, sexual inequality, sexual morality, sexual morals, sexual relations, sexual subordination, sexual violence, sexuality, social class, social inequality, socialization, society, survivor, vagina, violation, violence, violence against women, women, women's health, women's liberation, women's rights, women's studies.
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Midwifery: Keeping Ya' Mama From Getting Cut For 5 Million Years
Don’t get me wrong. I love electronic culture. It gives me access to everyone else who has access to it, which is a lot of people. But it’s not everyone. And because of the necessarily exclusive nature of it, what gets lost is the full community experience. This is, for many, a digital age, and [...]
Posted: March 21st, 2008 under Female Sexuality, adaptiveness, anthropology, assisted birth, barack, biological anthropology, bipedalism, birth, birthing, brain, culture, digital, electronic, eminence, environment, episiotomy, evolution, evolutionary, female, fetal skull, isolation, labor, mammal, maternal, medical anthropology, midwife, midwifery, modernity, obama, pelvis, pregnancy, primate, sexuality, skull, surgery, tribe, vaginal cutting.
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Speaking Truth To Power: The Canary In the Coalmine (Literally)
Fight the Culture of Hate! Vincent Navarro, formerly Jesse Jackson’s senior health advisor in the ’84 and ’88 Primaries, tells it like it is over at Counterpunch: HillaryCare Failed. That’s right, folks, the experienced cynical candidate might not have an advantage over the young, hopeful candidate. The experienced candidate might have been involved in a [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2008 under 08, 1492, Guantanamo, Ohio, Texas, United States, abduction, afghanistan, african-american, african-americans, american way, anti-white, baltimore sun, barack, barackaway, birds, black, black males, black panther party, black panthers, bomb, brunch, brutality, california, californian, canary, candidate, capitalist, caucus, change, charges, church, clinton, coalmine, colonial power, colony, corruption, crime, cub, culture, culture of fear, delegate, dementia, democrat, democratic, detainee, dictatorship, direct traffic, drug, drug use, drugs, election, enslavement, equality, exploitation, fairness, fear, federal, funding, gender, goods, government, group, health care, hillary, hillary care, hillarycare, hitler, homeland, homeland security, hope, human, human rights, imperialism, international, jesse jackson, justice, law, lean back, male, males, manipulation, men, mental health, mining industry, minor, neighborhood, neocolonial, non-violent, oakland, obama, panthers, party, police, politics, possession, power, presidency, president, primary, profit, proletariat, property, race, radical, reagan, regime, rich, rights, rockaway, scandal, security, services, sex, stalin, state, sulfur-coloured seed eater, superdelegate, surrendur, system, ten point, ten point program, terror, terror squad, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists, toddler, totalitarian, totalitarianism, u.s. government, uncle sam, vibe, vincent navarro, violation, violence, war, war on drugs, welfare, white.
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"I Am A Consumer Whore! And How!": Don Hertzfeld's Offbeat Humor
There’s something really awesome about parodies of our commercial culture, like the Don Hertzfeld video “Rejection” after the jump (nod, Nadia). Maybe it’s because it makes it easier to laugh at the consumerism and materialism that chronically infect up our lives, or because we get so many messages that assume that we’re consumer whores that [...]
Posted: January 12th, 2008 under ad, ads, advertisement, big business, campaign, commerce, commercial, consumer, consumer whore, consumerism, culture, dinosaur comics, don hertzfeld, get your war on, humor, materialism, offbeat, product, rejection, toothpaste for dinner, whore.
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Our Masculine Systems: Women's Inequality Under the U.S. Constitution
Back in the day, in 1776, when our Founding Father and future second president John Quincy Adams was helping to draft the constitution, his wife, (Founding Mother?), Abigail Adams, asked him to “Remember the ladies” in that august document. He replied, in a letter, “Depend upon it, We know better than to repeal our Masculine [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2008 under 14th, American, Congress, George W. BUsh, National Organization for Women, Senator, Supreme Court, Uncategorized, United States, Virginia Tech, abigail adams, abusive conduct, agency, amendment, american history, antonio morrison, bill clinton, bitch, campaign, candidate, christy brzonkala, commerce clause, condom, constitution, constitutional, court of appeals, culture, en banc, football players, founding father, founding mother, fourteenth amendment, fuck the shit out of them, george macon university, get girls drunk, government, grand jury, history, human rights, hurting, inequality, james crawford, joe biden, john quincy adams, judge rehnquist, liberty, life, masculine systems, masculinity, no, objectification, opinionatrix, personal safety, pretzel, pursuit of happiness, race, rape, rapist, religion, sex, sexual assault, sexual violence, state's rights, stds, strength, survivor, violence, violence against women, violence against women act, woman, women's center, women's liberation, women's rights.
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Operation Screw the Prostitutes in Bolivia
Having spent several weeks in Bolivia this summer, and visited El Alto (lit. the heights), the neighborhood on the lip of the canyon where the capital of Bolvia, La Paz, this news is especially disturbing. (Curtsy to $3.60 for the update.) Reuters, via Yahoo News, reports that “Prostitutes in the Bolivian city of El Alto [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2007 under Aymara, Bolivia, La Paz, Lily Cortez, Media, Quechua, Ramiro Orellana, abortion, activism, activists, bar, birth control, brothel, catholic, che, chola, culture, danger, dangerous, discrimination, el alto, endangered, fasting, feminism, feminist, human rights, hunger strike, indigenous, karaoke, latin america, legal, mayor, media attention, murder, mutilation, neighborhood, nighttime workers, pimping, prostitute, prostitution, protest, red light district, restaurant, sewing lips together, sewing mouth closed, sex, sex work, sex workers, sexism, sexual capital, socioeconomic, socioeconomics, standard of beauty, technology, violation, women's rights.
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