Archive for 'human dignity'
Lady Justice: "They've Never Been a 13-Year old Girl."
The case Redding vs. Safford Unified School District #1 was decided by the Supreme Court this week. The 8-to-1 decision was awarded to Savana Redding, who as 13-year old girl, was strip-searched by school officials when she was suspected of carrying prescription-strength ibuprofen to school, each of which would have had the strength of two [...]
Posted: June 27th, 2009 under Female Sexuality, Supreme Court, drugs, gender, human dignity, human rights, objectification, politics, student.
Tags: dangerous, delerious, fear, gender, hazing, justice, men, objectification, pills, rape, ruth bader ginsburg, savana redding, school, strip-search, Supreme Court, violation, women
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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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Quirkyalone & The Social Compulsion to Date
According to Quirkyalone.net, Quirkyalone is defined as “noun/adj. A person who enjoys being single (but is not opposed to being in a relationship) and generally prefers to be alone rather than dating for the sake of being in a couple. With unique traits and an optimistic spirit; a sensibility that transcends relationship status. See also [...]
Posted: June 19th, 2007 under Female Sexuality, Media, Quirkyalone, celibacy, dating, femininity, human condition, human dignity, marriage, masculinity, objectification, power, relationship, self help, self help industry, sex, sexuality, single, spouse.
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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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Study finds Black female college graduates 145x more likely to suffer abuse
Thanks to mparham for bringing my attention to Charreah Jackson’s shocking article in the Louisiana Weekly. According to a recent study by University of Arizona researcher Kameri Christy-McMullin, “When a woman makes more money, it is already known she is at a higher risk for abuse. What I had not expected was the intensity of [...]
Posted: May 8th, 2007 under Louisiana Weekly, Misogyny, abuse, college graduates, human dignity, love, racism.
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I can see clearly now, my Cultural Bias is gone. . .
Rereading my site, it seems to me that some more layers need to be involved. For example, one of my friends who hails from Pakistan told me about how one of her feminist aunts chooses to wear the chador because she finds it freeing to hide her appearance from other people. It happened, she said, [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2007 under Edward Said, Freud, George Washington University, Islam, Mahmoud Ahmadinejah, Mary, Mary Magdalene, New York Times, Orientalism, Pakistan, Richard Gere, Robert Albro, Sex Roles, Shariah, Shilpa Shetty, Wikipedia, chador, cultural bias, human dignity, kissing, objectification, symbolism.
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thin women:strong men as object:subject?
In this article, “Thin, Sexy Women and Strong, Muscular Men” published in the November 2003 issue of Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, Sarah K. Murnen and her colleagues discuss the effects of rising discrepancies between images of women presented by the media and the size body of the average American woman. Body dissatisfaction is [...]
Posted: May 4th, 2007 under Barbie, Brody Jenner, CosmoGirl, Female Sexuality, Full-Figuring, Guerilla Girls, Ken, Kenneth B Clark, Kiri Davis, Misogyny, Murnen, Nicole Richie, Sarah K, Self Objectification, Sex Roles, doll, doll experiments, exploitation, human dignity, objectification, racism, stigmatization, theory.
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