Archive for 'Misogyny'
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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Navel Gazing
Okay, so there’s this issue that I haven’t exactly addressed yet, and it occured to me while I was reading a comment on Alas!’ post How I Became a Feminist. This comment, by Kate L., says, “does anyone who knows Jessica [Valenti, whose book, Full Frontal Feminism, is being discussed] anywhere that I can find [...]
Posted: May 17th, 2007 under Janet Jackson, Lindsay Lohan, Misogyny, Paris Hilton, R&B, blogging, exploitation, feminism, marketing, objectification, photography, psychology, stripping, subversion, the gaze, the pose, theory, wardrobe malfunction.
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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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Hide your knees, it’s the Fashion Po.
This article in the New York Times from May 3rd documents the enforcement of Islamic ideals of modesty in Tehran, Iran. The article reports that “Women have been required by law since the 1979 Islamic revolution to cover their hair and wear long, loose clothing. The ideal dress is considered to be the chador, a [...]
Posted: May 5th, 2007 under Female Sexuality, Iran, Islam, Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, Mahmoud Ahmadinejah, Misogyny, New York Times, Sex Roles, Tehran, chador, exploitation, fashion, fashion police, objectification.
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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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Kanye West’s Gold Digger: Cashing in On Social Capital
Saturday night’s Mos Def concert was punctuated by frequent samples to highlight the talents of Mos’ DJs. One of the samples they chose was the bouncy blues of Ray Charles’ “I Got A Woman” (click for an audio-only experience; this was pre-MTV). A girl behind me bopping her head to the beat, was trying to [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2007 under Gold Digger, I Got a Woman, Kanye West, MTV, Misogyny, Mos Def, Psalm One, Ray Charles, Wikipedia, exploitation, hip hop, music video.
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