Archive for 'Pornography'
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 [...]
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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Out of Reach of Children: The Degradation of Women, and Accepting It
So I was talking to my friend about porn the other night. She said that the most successful relationship she ever had was one in which she was “chill” about all of the things that might previously have caused her jealousy: her boyfriend’s tendency to slap her friends’ asses, and his giant porn collection. “I [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2007 under Pornography, ass, behavior, boyfriend, children, culture, degradation, degrading, depression, double standard, eating disorders, gender, jealousy, macho, masculinity, out, porn, rape, sex, sexual, sexuality, women.
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Color Me Beautiful: MakeUp, Fact & Fiction.
So, there’s this thing that I put on my face in the evenings these days, before I go out to shake my thang or down some burrs. The fact that many women feel dependent on this stuff – I have heard countless women explain that they feel incomplete or “naked” without their lipstickeyeshadowmascarafoundationconcealerblush while most [...]
Posted: August 11th, 2007 under Ma$e, Mase, Pippi Longstocking, Pornography, Puff Daddy, abuse, active, airbrushing, alcohol, bitch, blush, concealer, costume, culture, cupcake, disempowerment, dove, drinking, erotica, evolution, eyeshadow, fafi, film, foundation, gender, gender theory, hair removal, high, hippie, hot, identity, inner, lipstick, make up, makeup, marijuana, mascara, masturbation, men, money, movie, murder, naked, objectification, objectification of women, objects, oppression, outer, party, passive, pedicure, pimp, porn, retro, self, self-esteem, sex, sex differences, sex research, sexual abuse, sexual difference, sexual marketplace, sexual objectification, sexuality, shallow, standard of beauty, theory, video, violence, women.
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Hospitality: Coffee, Tea, or Me?
Flying makes a lot of people nervous. One of the strategies that airlines employ to help people relax is to objectify women all around them. This is still practiced at Hooters Air. According to Wikipedia, “In the 1960s and 1970s, many airlines began advertising the attractiveness and friendliness of their stewardesses. “National Airlines began a [...]
Posted: June 29th, 2007 under Female Sexuality, Pornography, Self Objectification, airline, beauty, binge drinking, bird flu, cabin crew, casual sex, corporate objectification, culture of fear, danger, discrimination, drug culture, fashion, fear, flight attendant, gender, gender role, hooters, marriage, objectification, pedophiles, pensions, plane, pregnancy, profession, sex, sexism, sexuality, standard of beauty, stereotypes, stewardess, stripping, terrorism, truancy, uniform, uniforms, union.
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The Writing on the Wall: Fafi
When Fafi was eighteen, she started sneaking out of her parents’ home to make public art. Her work, which is cartoonish, features what her myspace page calls “powerful and active” images of girls. Fafi, now thirty-one, lives in France with her husband and children and travels the world to install her rogue pieces, which she [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2007 under 30 Rock, Dr. Faustus, Girls Rock, Italian Vogue, Japanese, Le Sportsac, MTV, Marlowe, Mash, Pornography, Self Objectification, The Face, angel, anime, art, artist, devil, fafi, fashion, female, female artist, femininity, graffiti, identity, money, mural, nipple, objectification, power, public art, race, sex, sex goddess, sexuality, spray paint, standard of beauty, stereotype, vandalism, wardrobe malfunction.
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Militant Israeli Pimps & Women as Aggressors
Thanks to Feministing for alerting me to this alarming new campaign- jointly launched by Israel and Maxim- to promote “Women of the Israeli Defense Forces” as objects. According to the BBC, “The pictures are part of a public relations drive to improve the image of the country within the US. Maxim said it was [...]
Posted: June 21st, 2007 under A Room Of One's Own, BBC, Coco Fusco, Female Sexuality, Gal Gadot, Gitmo, Hamas, Israel, Israeli, Israeli consulate, NPR, Pornography, T&A, abu ghraib, abuse, bikini, conflict, damsel in distress, feminism, feminist, lad mag, male gaze, maxim, military, objectification, power, prison, professor, public relations, rape, sexist, sexy, soft core, soldier, torture, war, women in the military.
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Global Pedophile Ring Smashed!
Check out the article from the New York Times. The scientific community is not yet sure if pedophilia is pathological, but contemporary Western mores teach us that pedophilia is wrong. Yet there are some cases that are in the gray areas. For example, the Genarlow Wilson case, in which a 17 year old was given [...]
Posted: June 19th, 2007 under Duke, Genarlow Wilson, Iriquois, Mike Nifong, Pornography, abuse, children, consent, cultural criticism, culture, exploitation, federal, fellatio, global, golf, justice, lacrosse, law, molestation, objectification, oral sex, pathology, pedophilia, psychology, rape, sex, sexual assault, sports, violence.
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