Archive for 'objectification'
A Mile In Her Shoes: Men Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk
Hat tip to Bust for their coverage of this well-heeled event in their August/September issue: there’s a a new annual parage of feminist men who strut their stuff and walk the walk, literally.
The “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,” which bills itself as an “International Men’s March Against Rape, Sexual Assault and Gender Violence” — [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2008 under Self Objectification, Sex Roles, Uncategorized, feminine, femininity, feminism, feminist, feminists have more fun, gender role, gender roles, gender theory, gender violence, heels, males, objectification, objectification of men, objectification of women, objects, protest, rape, sexual assault, sexual difference, sexual objectification, sexual violence, sexuality, sexy, shoes.
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That’s What My Daddy’s Made Me: Simian Mobile Disco’s “Hustler” Videos
I’ve been listening to the London-based Simian Mobile Disco, a music production team who call themselves “Electro/ Psychadelic/ Alternative” on their Myspace page. They are composed of two guys named James (foreground, left) and claim to sound like “good, old-fashioned, analogue party music” (as their wacky Brit-ball spelling has it).
Specifically, I’ve been listening to their [...]
Posted: June 19th, 2008 under Female Sexuality, Misogyny, Pornography, Sex Roles, agency, child molestation, female empowerment, feminism, feminist, feminist academics, feminist theory, gender, gender dynamics, gender power, gender roles, gender socialization, gender theory, male gaze, male sexuality, materialism, music, music video, objectification, objectification of women, objectify, patriarchy, politics, porn, power, power structure, prostitute, racism, sex, sex work, sex worker, sexism, shoplifting, subjectivity, subversion, theory.
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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 [...]
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 rights, women's studies.
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Happy Belated V-Day: Biological Anthropology of the Penis
Biological anthropology, which, according to Pulitzer-Prize winning feminist, biologist and journalist Natalie Angier, started out as an attempt to make a ’science’ out of objectifying women (mainly by conflating culturally determined elements of attractiveness with the work of evolution).
Such research incites dispute because it supports oppressive cultural standards of beauty with pseudoscience, and thus presents [...]
Posted: February 16th, 2008 under New York, Research, University, adaptation, albany, anthropology, arms race, artificial vagina, beauty, behavior, bias, biological, biology, cheating, chimpanzees, competition, coronal ridge, cultural, dildo, egg, evolution, evolutionary, fertilization, gordon g. gallup, head, homemade, hypothesis, intrauterine, men, menstrual cycle, natural selection, objectification, oppression, orgasm, penis, psuedoscience, psychologist, reproduction, science, scientific, sex, shaft, sloppy seconds, sperm, spouse, standard of beauty, study, vaginal.
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Our Masculine Systems: Women’s Inequality Under the U.S. Constitution
Back in the day, in 1776, when our Founding Father and future second president John Quincy Adams was helping to draft the constitution, his wife, (Founding Mother?), Abigail Adams, asked him to “Remember the ladies” in that august document. He replied, in a letter, “Depend upon it, We know better than to repeal our Masculine [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2008 under 14th, American, Congress, George W. BUsh, National Organization for Women, Senator, Supreme Court, Uncategorized, United States, Virginia Tech, abigail adams, abusive conduct, agency, amendment, american history, antonio morrison, bill clinton, bitch, campaign, candidate, christy brzonkala, commerce clause, condom, constitution, constitutional, court of appeals, culture, en banc, football players, founding father, founding mother, fourteenth amendment, fuck the shit out of them, george macon university, get girls drunk, government, grand jury, history, human rights, hurting, inequality, james crawford, joe biden, john quincy adams, judge rehnquist, liberty, life, masculine systems, masculinity, no, objectification, opinionatrix, personal safety, pretzel, pursuit of happiness, race, rape, rapist, religion, sex, sexual assault, sexual violence, state's rights, stds, strength, survivor, violence, violence against women, violence against women act, woman, women's center, women's liberation, women's rights.
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Lewd Photos, Moral Relativism & The Tawdry World of Ivy League Sex Blogging
So Lena Chen. Here’s a refresher course. She’s a sexblogger from Harvard who tells stories about her sexploits, with strategically placed psuedonyms and (presumably) enough privacy to retain her sanity and, oh yeah, sell some advertising.
Recently, some trouble was roused when her vindictive ex published naked pictures of her on the internet, thus ruining [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2007 under Female Sexuality, Harvard, Self Objectification, Sex and the City, Sex and the Ivy, agency, anonymous, bliss, blog, casual, chen, comparative sexuality, consent, ethical, ethics, ignorance, ivy, ivy league, ivygate, lena, lewd, male sexuality, meta, moral relativism, morality, morals, naked, nude, nudie, nudity, objectification, orgasm, original sin, phone sex, photographs, photos, pictures, prostitute, prostitution, purity, rape, sex, sex positive, sex positivity, sexblog, sexblogging, sexism, sexual morality, sexual morals, sexuality, sin, slut, tawdry.
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Save the Drama For Yo’ Mama: Feminism in the Classroom
So, I’m a girl. I know this may come as a shock. But don’t worry, I’ve had my cooties shots.
Chances are, there are some other girls in your life. If so, you might care to hear about this article published in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience by Associate Professor Maryjane Wraga of the Psychology department [...]
Posted: December 10th, 2007 under 2006, Bush, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Gauss, Harvard University, Larry Summers, SAT, Wraga, academia, academic, affective, agency, aptitude, asian, baseline, clinton, cognitive, cognitive processes, comfort, control, controversy, cooties, courage, disempowerment, drama, empowerment, fMRI, feminism, feminist, feminists have better sex, feminists have more fun, freedom of movement, functional magnetic imaging, gender, gender disparity, gender power, genius, hillary, hypothesis, joke, language use, magazine, majors, mama, math, message, negative, neural structure, neuroscience, objectification, obscure parts, obstacle, passivity, peace, penetrating, performance, pessimism, positive, power, presidency, president, professor, psychology, race, rape, rape case, reasoning, science, sex, sexuality, smith college, social, sophie germain, spatial, stereotypes, study, surmounting, talent, test, threat, verbal, weight loss, white house, women in science.
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Miss Landmine Angola, 2008: The Right to Beauty & Agency
Hat tip to Broadsheet for this inspiring story of how Nordic artist Morten Traavik uses beauty pageants to subvert modern standards of beauty. In a country where 23 years of civil war has left 80,000 people disabled, Angolan society objectifies survivors of violence as passive victims and dismisses them as useless to society. Although the inclusion [...]
Posted: November 20th, 2007 under 2008, Kathleen Palmer, active, american apparel, angola, antioch, awareness, beauty, beauty pageant, candidate, civil war, college, cultural cooperation, disabled, empowerment, female empowerment, feminism, feminist, gender role, grammar, gun, hookup, international women's day, landmine, landmines, manifesto, miss landmine, morten traavik, objectification, orthopedic, passive, physical perfection, pride, rape, sex, sex lives, sexuality, survivor, victim, violence, vote, women.
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Gender Normativity, Post-Mrs.Doubtfire Doubts, & A Drive-By Fruiting
I went to a dinner party a while ago, and it was really nice. I was camoflaged in adult clothes, and standing around with adults, chatting, and this child ran through. The child hesitated on the edge of our circle of tall obstacles, and then darted into the middle and out the other side. The [...]
Posted: November 9th, 2007 under abuse, adults, bitch, bowl cut, bowlcut, boy, child, crossdressing, dinner, dolce and gabbana, drive by, drummond, fair, fairness, feminism, feminist, fruiting, gender, girl, heart, henry, hippies, hit, human rights, humanism, humanist, idiot, idiots, inherit the wind, jezebel, justice, koreanish, male victim, mrs doubtfire, norm, objectification, objectification of men, partner abuse, partner violence, party, psychiatry, punch, rape, scopes trial, slap, violence, violent.
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ONSLAUGHT: the campaign against women’s self esteem
Following Dove’s “Evolution” campaign, they’ve come out with this new ad that points to the effects of the objectification of women on the self-esteem of girls and women. (Hat tip to Cathy for the link.) Interestingly, they call attention to the fact that the style of
Posted: November 7th, 2007 under Bust, Female Sexuality, Neil Strauss, The Game, affirmation, assholes, backhanded, beauty, bullshit, cellulite, compliments, conglomerate, cream, destiny, fat, girls, humor, integrity, intelligence, low self esteem, objectification, pick up artists, power, seduction community, self-esteem, sexuality, standard of beauty, women.
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Objectify These Links!
Ok, so it’s a crazy time of year. I have four papers this weekend, and a thesis, and I’m applying for fellowships for next year. But I want to keep you posted about the amazing/horrific things out there. So, here’re some interesting links I’ve come across in my few minutes of procrastination:
- Runways Fade To [...]
Posted: October 15th, 2007 under Cameron Diaz, Jena, Wikipedia, anonymous, egg rolls, fashion, guerilla, handbag, i love you, jena 6, john mellencamp, lifetime, links, love, maoist, mayor, music, noose, objectification, poetry, procrastination, project, racism, rebel, revolution, song, warfare.
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DIY: How (And Why) To Make Your Own T-Shirt Dress
Right, so I’ve been going on about agency for months, and I’ve never talked about the important of being active in your own life. I took this amazing class called Fashion Matters, which actually got specifically made fun of by name by some of my friends in one of our on-campus publications for its prissy [...]
Posted: October 13th, 2007 under Japan, Misogyny, Women and Gender Studies, agency, american apparel, butch, contemporary, costume, diy, do it yourself, dress, dresses, east, fashion, fit, free, historical construction, homemade, human rights, joke, material, objectification, oppression, postmodern, queer, reaction, social construction, straight, street fashion, stretchy, sweatshops, t shirt, union busting, west.
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Hate Is Not a Family Value: the Megan Williams Case
The egregious facts of the Megan Williams case must be an embarrassment to most Americans, because that’s the only lame excuse I can think of to explain why, as $3.60 points out, this is taking a backseat to Vanessa Hudgens in the nude.
Posted: October 4th, 2007 under americans, anti-racism, boston, crime, feces, gender violence, google, kidnapping, megan williams, mobilization, nude, objectification, race, racism, racist, sicko, slur, training, trial, west virginia.
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Jean Grae For President
This summer, I attended the Randall’s Island, New York rendition of Rock The Bells. It was raining and cold, and my umbrella was confiscated as I entered the eight hour festival because it could be potentially used as a weapon - (another victory for the enemies of freedom and justice) Needless to say, the shows [...]
Posted: September 10th, 2007 under Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Brooklyn, Byron Hurt, City, Grae, Ibrahim, New York, Rock The Bells, Tsidi, agency, agent, artist, attack of the attacking things, beats, blog, candidate, crisis, date, dating, dating show, disrespect, easter bunny, election, female, gender, hip hop, hotline, jean, man, mate, music, musician, object, objectification, president, presidential candidate, raccoon, randall's island, rape, rapper, rhymes, sad, scene, select, single, speed dating, stiletto, stripping, triggering, umbrella, underground, undergroundhiphop.com, vote, whip, wildlife.
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Missy Elliot & Work it, Or, I Need to Shave My Chocha so You’ll Eat It Like a Vultcha
In her track “Work It,” Missy Elliot offers a wise approach to the objectification-heavy world of commercial hip hop: “I’m not a prostitute, but I can give you what you want.”
The hit single “Work It” both employs the blatant objectification of women (with images, in the video, of women bending over in hootchie shorts to [...]
Posted: August 12th, 2007 under Chinese, Kunta Kinte, Lil' Kim, Massah, Missy Elliot, Puerto Rican, Timbaland, Work It, artist, ass,