Archive for 'offensive'
Arrr You Being Lied To About Pirates? Shore! Oar: Racism in Today's U.S. Media
Images of the “third world” have long been distorted before they are displayed to the American public. Most people don’t even know that “third world” refers to the Cold War and should have died along with “red scare” and those bomb drills where schoolchildren were put under desks. American ignorance abounds when it comes to [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2009 under colonial power, empire, genocide, media bias, offensive, oil, racism, third world.
Tags: africa, africans, alexander the great, bandits, barbarians, bomb drills, cold war, colonization, crime, cultural bias, economics, empire, emporer, haystack, ignorance, johnny depp, kareem, massacre, Media, media bias, oil, piracy, pirates, prejudice, psychology, racism, red scare, robber, rwanda, rwandan genocide, Somalia, starvation, stuff white people like, third world, toxic waste, western culture, white people
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Male Answer Syndrome & Homeland Insecurity: Smells Like Bullshit
In high school, I was once asked to read this article about Male Answer Syndrome. Here’s an excerpt I just found online: It is called `Male Answer Syndrome: Why Men always have opinions, even on subjects they know nothing about’ — by Jane Campbell (from Utne Reader, Jan/Feb 1992) “In the animal kingdom, males exhibit [...]
Posted: April 21st, 2008 under Sex Roles, absurdity, blogger, differences, gender, gender bias, gender culture, gender differences, gender disparity, gender dynamics, gender equality, gender power, gender role, gender roles, gender socialization, gender theory, male, male gaze, male perspective, male worldview, modern life, offensive, self image, self-advocacy, self-esteem, sex, sexism, sexual difference, sexual dimorphism, sexual inequality, sexual relations, sexual subordination.
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Haha . . . not funny.
Feministing’s Weekly Feminist reader alerted me to F Word’s recent posting “Har Har,” in which Sara Anderson holds advertising exec Gerdien responsible for making a visual joke about the abuse of women by beating them with keyboards. Gerdien argues that since the ad was made by three women, it can’t be sexist, and states, “Because [...]
Posted: August 12th, 2007 under absurdity, abuse, advertisement, bitch, feminism, feminist, fuck you, funny, har har, humor, joke, offensive, sexism, sexist, violence, violence against women.
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