Archive for 'culture'
Good Reads: Women from Brooklyn and Hell, Respectively
First, check out the revolutionary dreams of BrooklynSista: she’s got the truth like sojourner and deals deftly with race and politics in the news and popular culture, with a side of Nas’ “One Love” in case things are getting too serious. Then there’s the post-college wasteland. It’s a good thing that other people have lived [...]
Posted: September 25th, 2007 under Brooklyn, agencies, agency, application, culture, dante, degree, degreed, dreams, education, employment, experience, hell, human, inferno, liberal arts, meta, music, pop, popular, race, real, revolution, sojourner, temp, temporary, truth, uniform, video, work, world.
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Out of Reach of Children: The Degradation of Women, and Accepting It
So I was talking to my friend about porn the other night. She said that the most successful relationship she ever had was one in which she was “chill” about all of the things that might previously have caused her jealousy: her boyfriend’s tendency to slap her friends’ asses, and his giant porn collection. “I [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2007 under Pornography, ass, behavior, boyfriend, children, culture, degradation, degrading, depression, double standard, eating disorders, gender, jealousy, macho, masculinity, out, porn, rape, sex, sexual, sexuality, women.
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Missy Elliot & Work it, Or, I Need to Shave My Chocha so You'll Eat It Like a Vultcha
In her track “Work It,” Missy Elliot offers a wise approach to the objectification-heavy world of commercial hip hop: “I’m not a prostitute, but I can give you what you want.” The hit single “Work It” both employs the blatant objectification of women (with images, in the video, of women bending over in hootchie shorts [...]
Posted: August 12th, 2007 under Chinese, Kunta Kinte, Lil' Kim, Massah, Missy Elliot, Puerto Rican, Timbaland, Work It, artist, ass, black, blunt, bodunkadunkdunk, chocha, commercial, culture, cunnilingus, dichotomy, drunk, female, gender, gender equality, hair did, hip hop, hootchie, ladies, lyric, male, minuteman, misogynistic, molestation, musician, nails done, objectification, pastor, pop, proposition, prostitute, pubic hair, pubic hair grooming, respect, respect me, reverse, risque, sexual objectification, shame, shave, slave, song, this is not a test, vulture, white.
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Color Me Beautiful: MakeUp, Fact & Fiction.
So, there’s this thing that I put on my face in the evenings these days, before I go out to shake my thang or down some burrs. The fact that many women feel dependent on this stuff – I have heard countless women explain that they feel incomplete or “naked” without their lipstickeyeshadowmascarafoundationconcealerblush while most [...]
Posted: August 11th, 2007 under Ma$e, Mase, Pippi Longstocking, Pornography, Puff Daddy, abuse, active, airbrushing, alcohol, bitch, blush, concealer, costume, culture, cupcake, disempowerment, dove, drinking, erotica, evolution, eyeshadow, fafi, film, foundation, gender, gender theory, hair removal, high, hippie, hot, identity, inner, lipstick, make up, makeup, marijuana, mascara, masturbation, men, money, movie, murder, naked, objectification, objectification of women, objects, oppression, outer, party, passive, pedicure, pimp, porn, retro, self, self-esteem, sex, sex differences, sex research, sexual abuse, sexual difference, sexual marketplace, sexual objectification, sexuality, shallow, standard of beauty, theory, video, violence, women.
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Metrosexual: Frogs turn to Prince Charmings, Anarchy Ensues?
So I was cleaning out my desk this weekend for the first time since third grade, because I was hoping that somehow my ticket for Rock the Bells would be in there, and I came across some ugly ass wrapping paper. It was graced with snowflakes and the visages of mid-nineties pop stars – [...]
Posted: August 1st, 2007 under America, American Indian, Bavaria, Beer Boob, CVS, Canada, Canexico, Coors Twins, Foster's, Gay, Indian, Indians, JTT, Kenmen, Labatt's Blue, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Miller Lite Cat Fight, Milwaukee's Best Automotive Girl, Native American, Rock The Bells, Rolling Rock Ape Babes, St. Louis, St. Pauli Girl, Troegs, Usher, Vanna White, Wall Street, Will Smith, YM magazine, advertisement, aggressive, anarchy, ass, assertive, babe, bank, beer, beer drinker, belgium, boob, burping, camera, civil war, commericial, cultural, culture, direct, dominant, dominate, fantasize, fantasy, farting, foreclosure, gloss, government, happy, heterosexual, hottie, lesbian, lip, lip pencil, machismo, macho, magazine, make up, makeup for men, metrosexual, mexico, mid-nineties, mind, model, mortgages, objectification, passive, personal income tax, pop star, porn, power, power dynamic, powerful, rawkward, revlon, sexual attraction, sexual objectification, sexy, shoplifting, skin tone, snowflakes, stella artois, straight, stripper, teen magazine, truce, viewer, virtual bartender, war, wrapping paper.
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"G.s Up, Hos Down, While You Muthafuckahs . . . Seek Gender and Racial Equality"
I just got back from NYC’s incarnation of the Rock the Bells Hip Hop Festival on Randall’s Island this weekend, where I was struck by the ways that the mainstream, commercial hip hop scene differs from the “underground” or “conscious” hip hop scene that I stood for hours in mud and pouring rain to dance [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2007 under A Girl Named You, ATLiens, Andre, Andre 3000, Atmosphere, Bag Lady, Benzi Box, Best Buy, Brooklyn Masala, Brother Ali, Brown Skin Lady, CunninLynguists, Cypress Hill, Dead Prez, Eminem, Erykah Badu, Forest Whitaker, G, Gin and Juice, Hey Ya, Immortal Technique, MF DOOM, Masta Ace, Mos Def, Outkast, Psalm One, Rage Against the Machine, Rhymesayers, Rjd2, Sage Francis, Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, The Light, agency, artist, audience, authenticity, bikini, bitch, black, blog, clitoral stimulation, clitoris, commercial, common, conscious, culture, cunnilingus, dance, dancer, exploitative, expression, fan, festival, fish and grits, future, gat, gender, go-go, heads down, hip hop, ho, hum, identity, independent, indie, individual, irony, island, label, love making, lovemaking, lover, mainstream, making love, marijuana, mass-produced, masturbation, men, message, mind sex, money, mother, motherfucker, mud, music, nigga, nonsense, objectification, pimp, polaroid, political, politics, produce, produced, prostitution, race, rain, randall, randall's, rap, rapper, rhyme, security, self acceptance, self-produced, sex, sincerity, sister, stereotype, stereotypes, sugar, talent, underground, women.
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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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