Archive for 'objectification'
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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I’ll Swan for Links
This photograph is by Francesca Woodman, a fantastic feminist photographer who killed herself in her twenties several decades ago. Her work is haunting, because she treats the female form and the objectifying gaze of the camera and manages to make it beautiful.
From Johannesburg, the story of Dumisani Rebombo, one rapist repenting, asking his victim’s forgiveness, [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2009 under conflict resolution, feminism, feminist, objectification, politics, rape, respect.
Tags: add, adhd, alex chee, allen iverson, art, auto-tune, camera, carcinogen, china, deng yujiao, dumisani rebombo, feminism, food coloring, ford madox ford, francesca woodman, gaze, granta, harper's, harper's index, homicide, Iran, jean rhys, johannesburg, maud newton, murder, mustache, n+1, national symbol, neda agha soltan, novelist, objectification, photography, practice, rapist, repentence, sexual assault, south africa, statistical poetry, statistics, suicide, sunscreen
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Muslim Community Liaison Resigns Over Alleged Ties to the Muslim Community
Recently I was listening to this episode of This American Life (Act Two, to be precise) and realized that the American Muslim community is experiencing a frightening witch hunt.
In short, Masan Azbahi was an Obama campaign liaison to Chicago’s Muslim community until he was accused of being a terrorist.
Why? Because he had once served on [...]
Posted: March 27th, 2009 under Islam, Media, This American Life, discrimination, irony, media bias, muslim, obama, objectification, religion, religious extremists, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists.
Tags: anti-semitism, chicago, dow jones, fundamentalist, imam, investment, ira glass, irony, Islam, jamal said, masan azbahi, mccarthyism, muslim, obama, racism, radical islam, terror, terrorism, wall street journal. this american life, war on terror
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Figure It Out: The Truth about the Perfect Body
Are women’s magazines bad for women?
It might seem like a stupid question. But when, as the New York Times reports, a University of Missouri study “found that looking at women’s magazines for 1-3 minutes had a negative impact on women’s self esteem. So imagine what happens if we’re bombarded by these images every day.”
This suggests [...]
Posted: March 18th, 2009 under Female Sexuality, Media, Self Objectification, advertisement, advertising, agency, airbrushing, beauty, bodies, body image, gender, internalized oppression, make up, makeup, mass-produced, materialism, mental health, model, objectification, physical health, physical perfection, politics, popular culture, power, power dynamic, power structure, racism, reality, self, self acceptance, self image, self-esteem, self-loathing, sex, sexuality.
Tags: ads, advertising, advertizing, airbrushing, beauty, body image, france, health, keats, magazines, mental health, physical health, power, reality, retouching, self-esteem, steroids, truth, ugliness
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Geek Chic: One Time for Your Mind
Geek chic is in.
Even the New York Times knows it. While in previous years that would mean that it’s already passé, Obama has ushered in a celebration of the passé - both a revival of the cult of the individual and a trumph of sincerity.
I know that it’s odd to label the onset of our [...]
Posted: February 11th, 2009 under Female Sexuality, agency, gender, objectification, politics, sex, sexuality.
Tags: abstinence, cartagena, chic, chick, colombia, couric, dorothy parker, economic crisis, fetish, fey, gay rights, geek, geek chic, geek chick, glasses, hay festival, human rights, impressions, intelligence, jeff richmond, lesbian and gay rights, lesbian rights, machismo, martin amis, mccain, Misogyny, obama, objectification, orgasm, polls, sarah palin, sex, sex education, sexual revolution, sexuality, sexy, suicide, summer of love, Tina Fey, virginity, women
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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.
Tags: demonstration, femininity, feminism, feminist, gender violence, heels, international, male feminists, march, men, men's march, parade, pumps, rape, sexism, sexual assault, sexual violence, shoes, talk the talk, violence, violence against women, walk a mile in her shoes, walk the walk
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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.
Tags: abject, alternative, appetite, attack decay sustain release, child molestation, electro, electronica, feminist, girl on girl, honey hooker, hustler, kristeva, larry flynt, lust, male gaze, marx, Misogyny, mulvey, music, music video, myspace, objectify, party music, patriarchy, pink, politics, porn, Pornography, power, prositute, psychadelic, racism, sexism, sexuality, shoplifting, simian mobile disco, subjectivity, theory, video, 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 [...]
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
According to Pulitzer-Prize winning feminist, biologist and journalist Natalie Angier, biological anthropology 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 women [...]
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,