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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 [...]
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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Kremlin Outlaws Emo Styling, Behaviors Starting 2009
Hat tip to Sabotabby of Punkassblog for the scoop on this one: the Russian Government has released a statement officially limiting children’s toys that are “psychologically incongruous” (thus, threatening irony in the next generation of Russian childhoods) and stating that, as Sabotabby has it, “Apparently, the Russian government feels it necessary to fight the growing [...]
Posted: June 17th, 2008 under biology, bisexual, depression, emo, employment, oppression, prostitute, prostitution, psychology, punk, sexual, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, sexual inequality, sexual violence, suicide.
Tags: abuse, America, American, band, bands, biology, bisexuality, cultural misogyny, d.c., depression, diy, duma, edge, emo, fugazi, Gay, goth, guy picciotto, hipster, hormones, irony, kremlin, mainstream, mayo clinic, mental health, Misogyny, music, oppression, physical abuse, prostitute, psychology, puberty, punk, punk rock, rites of spring, russia, sex, sexual abuse, sociology, straight, straight-edge, subculture, suicide, toys, washington, western medicine, youth
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Oxford Prodigy Now A Hooker…
Yep. Check Amherstdam for the details from the Daily Mail while I groan at my thesis.
Posted: March 31st, 2008 under Female Sexuality, exploitation, hooker, lonely, oxford, prodigy, prostitute, prostitution, sex, sexuality.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Sex Bloggers
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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Operation Screw the Prostitutes in Bolivia
Having spent several weeks in Bolivia this summer, and visited El Alto (lit. the heights), the neighborhood on the lip of the canyon where the capital of Bolvia, La Paz, this news is especially disturbing. (Curtsy to $3.60 for the update.) Reuters, via Yahoo News, reports that “Prostitutes in the Bolivian city of El Alto [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2007 under Aymara, Bolivia, La Paz, Lily Cortez, Media, Quechua, Ramiro Orellana, abortion, activism, activists, bar, birth control, brothel, catholic, che, chola, culture, danger, dangerous, discrimination, el alto, endangered, fasting, feminism, feminist, human rights, hunger strike, indigenous, karaoke, latin america, legal, mayor, media attention, murder, mutilation, neighborhood, nighttime workers, pimping, prostitute, prostitution, protest, red light district, restaurant, sewing lips together, sewing mouth closed, sex, sex work, sex workers, sexism, sexual capital, socioeconomic, socioeconomics, standard of beauty, technology, violation, women's rights.
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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 [...]
Posted: August 12th, 2007 under Chinese, Kunta Kinte, Lil' Kim, Massah, Missy Elliot, Puerto Rican, Timbaland, Work It, artist, ass, black, blunt, bodunkadunkdunk, chocha, commercial, culture, cunnilingus, dichotomy, drunk, female, gender, gender equality, hair did, hip hop, hootchie, ladies, lyric, male, minuteman, misogynistic, molestation, musician, nails done, objectification, pastor, pop, proposition, prostitute, pubic hair, pubic hair grooming, respect, respect me, reverse, risque, sexual objectification, shame, shave, slave, song, this is not a test, vulture, white.
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Power Dynamics: Is Feminism the Crack of the Academy?
This is a long one. If you’re not interested in theory or crack, you might like this instead. I’ve been writing a lot about the machismo present here in Buenos Aires, and I’ve been looking at it from a pretty unilateral and experience-based place. So it was interesting to read Jo Doezema’s article, “Ouch! Western [...]
Posted: July 4th, 2007 under Amsterdam, Andrea Dworkin, Britain, Buenos Aires, Catherine MacKinnon, Coalition Against the Trafficking of Women, Female Sexuality, Japan, Jo Doezema, Once Plaza, Ouch!, Sheila Jeffries, academy, anthropology, autonomy, class, communion, crack, culture, feminism, feminist, first world, geisha, health care, human rights, human rights caucus, identification, injury, kathleen barry, machismo, men, moral autonomy, objectification, oppression, political, power, power structure, prostitute, sex, sex partner, sex positive, sex positivity, sex work, sex worker, sexual objectification, sexual subordination, social stigma, stripper, the state, the west, theory, thesis, third world, white, whore, women, women's rights, wounded attachment.
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