Archive for 'Paris Hilton'
“Rules are for Public School Bitches” : Paris and Bush
Paris Hilton’s agency just dumped her. Here’s the story, from the Sydney Daily Telegraph- yeah, her humiliation has been plastered all over most of the available surfaces in the English speaking world. Again. Everyone loves to hate Hilton. I guess there was too much drama for the Beverly Hills-based Endeavour talent agency, which has represented [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2007 under Beverly Hills, Bush, Bush Administration', Donald Evans, Endeavour, George W. BUsh, Guantanamo, Iraq War, Joan Walsh, Lil' Bush, Paris Hilton, Sex Roles, Texas, U.N., bitch, double standard, economics, immigration reform, oil, scapegoat, sexual inequality, social class, society, sociology.
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Rational Woman/My Philosophy by KRS-ONE: Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody
There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. -Albert Ellis (Ironic Curtsy: Irrational Woman) In her essay “Sexual Difference and the Problem of Essentialism,” Elizabeth Grosz writes of the problematic implication of “patriarchal frameworks, methods, and presumptions” in contemporary feminist theory and rhetoric.
Posted: June 11th, 2007 under Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, Elizabeth Grosz, Emile Durkheim, KRS-ONE, Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody, My Philosophy, Paris Hilton, Randall Collins, Sex Roles, Smurfette, agency, biologism, biology, bodies, economics, emotion, femininity, feminism, feminist academics, feminist theory, gender, gender bias, gender roles, identity, irrationality, patriarchy, philosophy, psychology, rationality, reason, sex, sexual dimorphism, sexual inequality, society, sociology, theory, trust.
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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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