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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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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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Make Gay, Not War: the Gay Bomb and Gaydar
Homosexuality has come up in some odd places recently. One of them is over at $3.60, where my attention was brought to a CBS special on a new strategy by the Federal Government to create a Gay Bomb which would release a chemical hormone that would make enemy combatants irresistably attractive to one another. For [...]
Posted: June 20th, 2007 under DNA, Darwin, Gay, Oscar Wilde, bigotry, biology, bomb, catholic, gay animals, gaydar, homosexuality, military, morality, penis, psychology, science, scientist, secret, sexuality, straight, study, testicles, vagina, weapon, womb.
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Pass the Gender Role, Bro: How We Form and Perpetuate Stereotypes
Thanks to Huehueteotl for this awesome post on intellectual vanities, “Gender Role and How We Gain It.” It packs quite a punch when read alongside CultureKitchen’s “How to Create a Rape Victim“by Nezua Limon Xol. The former deals with the social construction of gender, and the second with the social construction of gender power. This [...]
Posted: June 4th, 2007 under Dick and Jane, FBI, Gay, NOW, National Organization for Women, Self Objectification, Sex Roles, Vietnam, Women and Gender Studies, battered women, cartoon, cultural bias, domestic violence, empowerment, family culture, family values, gender, gender bias, graffiti, homelessness, juvenile offenders, lesbian, love, miscarriage, motherhood, murder, parenting, politics, poverty, psychology, rape victim, science and gender, self, self image, sex research, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual inequality, social class, sociology, stereotype, stillbirth, suicide, tradition, violence, violence against women, women battering, women's rights.
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Vehicles of Sexuality
A recent New York Times Article by Alex Williams, “Gay by Design, or a Lifestyle Choice?” discusses the idea of cars as markers of sexual identity, referring to the “soft lines” and “vibrant personality” of such vehicles as the Austin Mini Cooper and the Mazda MX-5 Miata. The market for “cute” cars, the article suggests, [...]
Posted: April 13th, 2007 under Byron Hurt, Cars, Female Sexuality, Gay, Misogyny, New York Times, PBS, gay cars, homophobia, mini cooper.
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