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On The American Dream and Amber Waves of Great
The American Dream has great power. Merriam-Webster defines it as “an American social ideal that stresses egalitarianism and especially material prosperity”; but this is incomplete. The American Dream is also bound up in those four words, “the pursuit of happiness,” an “unalienable right” guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson and Franklin elided our right [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2010 under Declaration of Independence, Gay, Research, advertisement, agency, american dream, americans, gay marriage, human rights, humor, objectification, revolution, society, sociology.
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Notes from an insecure country, part dos: las virgenes y las putas
The distinction between the sexes is an important battleground these days. Not only do women demonstrate the capacity to work outside the home, but we have also co-opted behaviors that were previously considered masculine, such as smoking, drinking, and having (gasp!) sexual relations without necessarily planning to marry our partner or be their baby mama.
Posted: July 2nd, 2007 under Argentina, Catholicism, Darwin, Female Sexuality, Research, catholic, center for science and culture, chaste, chastity, color contacts, conduct, culture, discovery institute, drinking, dyed hair, evolution, gay marriage, gender, gender roles, homosexuality, in vitro fertilization, intelligent design, latin america, lip ring, love, machismo, macho, male, maleness, marriage, masculinity, men, morality, premarital sex, prostitute, prostitution, researcher, scholar, science, scientist, sex, sexual morality, sexuality, smoking, target, theory, virginity, virtue.
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Price of Freedom:Heteronormativity & Human Blood, $399 and up
I keep seeing this bumper sticker everywhere that says “Freedom isn’t free.” I would paste it here, but if you’ve been in the U.S. recently in the daytime and you have decent vision or corrective lenses, you’ve probably seen it, too. The idea that freedom has to be bought, or that the possession of symbolic [...]
Posted: June 5th, 2007 under Blood Diamond, Cameron Diaz, Che Guevara, DeBeers, Debra Messing, Female Sexuality, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Gloria Steinham, In Style, Interrobang, Jane Russell, Jesus, Marie Claire, Marilyn Monroe, Pond's, Sarah Jessica Parker, Satanic, Sierra Leone, USA Network, Vogue, advertising, advertising copy, agency, bling, camp, capitalism, cocktail ring, confidence, conflict diamond, death, diamond ring, diamonds are a girl's best friend, empowerment, engagement ring, fad, family, fashion, femininity, financial independence, free, freedom, gay marriage, heteronormative, heteronormativity, homophobia, homosexuality, human dignity, ideological reproduction, jewelry, marketing, murder, mutilation, pop culture, poverty, power, psychographics, psychology, right hand diamond ring, right-handed, self, self image, slaves, status, symbolism, synthetic diamond, trend, violence, war.
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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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