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Meta-Hipsters and the Effectiveness of Ironically Self-Mocking PopCulture
So, in between waiting for episodes of 30 Rock to download, I got to thinking. Why is it that I so love this TV show about a woman making TV shows, written, produced, directed, and starred in by a Tina Fey, a woman who makes TV shows? Is there perhaps something especially entertaining about entertainment [...]
Posted: June 17th, 2007 under 30 Rock, Andy Warhol, Comedy, El Chombo, El Mundo, Eminem, Macarron Chacarron, Magritte, Mia, Stick Figures on Crack, TV, Tina Fey, bloods, cartoon, clothing, consumer, cool, crack, cultural movement, culture, economics, entertainment, fashion, gang sign, hip, hipster, humor, irony, knife, meta, music video, old school, parody, pop culture, producer, psychology, reality, reality TV, retro, self-mocking, skinnycorp, slapstick, stereotype, stick figures, suburbia, subversion, t shirt, threadless, video game, violence, white kid, youtube.
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“Rules are for Public School Bitches” : Paris and Bush
Paris Hilton’s agency just dumped her. Here’s the story, from the Sydney Daily Telegraph- yeah, her humiliation has been plastered all over most of the available surfaces in the English speaking world. Again. Everyone loves to hate Hilton. I guess there was too much drama for the Beverly Hills-based Endeavour talent agency, which has represented [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2007 under Beverly Hills, Bush, Bush Administration', Donald Evans, Endeavour, George W. BUsh, Guantanamo, Iraq War, Joan Walsh, Lil' Bush, Paris Hilton, Sex Roles, Texas, U.N., bitch, double standard, economics, immigration reform, oil, scapegoat, sexual inequality, social class, society, sociology.
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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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Senator Sam Brownback says Screw Rape Victims
On Tuesday, May 15th, Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas – a Republican presidential candidate who opposes, among other things, porn and gay marriage, was in a televised presidential debate. ” Tell me,” Wendell Goler asked Senator Sam Brownback during Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, “Since you’ve opposed abortion in every instance except to save the life [...]
Posted: May 20th, 2007 under Fox News, Freakonomics, Iraq War, Kansas, Misogyny, Roe vs. Wade, Sam Brownback, Senator, U.S. Senate, abortion, casualties, civilian casualties, contraception, contraceptives, crime, economics, gay marriage, incest, legalized abortion, men, military casualties, porn, president bush, presidential candidate, pro life, rape, republican, sanctity of life, sexual assault, violence against women.
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I’m Not a Manhater; I Just Dream a Lot
I recently conducted a series of interviews for a sociology project here at my college. I surveyed my female peers’ ideas about their perceptions of the likelihood of rape, and, as an afterthought, their views on feminism. Over and over, I heard, “Well, I think of myself as a feminist in the sense that I [...]
Posted: May 19th, 2007 under 50 ft Woman, Attack, Big Pun, Civil Rights, Declaration of Independence, Dr. Martin Luther King, GDP, I have a dream, Man Hater, Manhater, Misogyny, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Thomas Jefferson, Women and Gender Studies, abuse, agency, bitch, college, economics, feminism, gender, homophobia, interview, jr., masculinity, masculinity crisis, men, racism, rape, slaves, sociology, stay at home dads, working moms.
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