Archive for 'Research'
On The American Dream and Amber Waves of Great
The American Dream has great power. Merriam-Webster defines it as “an American social ideal that stresses egalitarianism and especially material prosperity”; but this is incomplete. The American Dream is also bound up in those four words, “the pursuit of happiness,” an “unalienable right” guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson and Franklin elided our right [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2010 under Declaration of Independence, Gay, Research, advertisement, agency, american dream, americans, gay marriage, human rights, humor, objectification, revolution, society, sociology.
Tags: agency, American, american dream, Applebee's, arrrested development, asian, ben franklin, black, Declaration of Independence, demographics, diversity, dream, estadounidense, gay rights, generation, george mason, gil scott-heron, happiness, hispanic, humor, hyperbole, i'm new here, material goods, materialism, merriam webster, mighty boosh, millenial, Millenials, nutrigrain, obama, pew research center, pursuit, revolution, rights, sarah haskins, spanish, tattoo, the revolution will not be televised, Thomas Jefferson, tolerance, u.s., unalienable rights, values
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The Reality of "RealAge": Big Business meets Big Brother?
So you’ve probably heard about Ghostnet, the mysterious online spying network. But have you considered the degree to which your online activity is monitored by big business? I don’t just mean those ads on the side of your Gmail account that spontaneously advertise garden gnomes when you talk about your short hippie friend. I mean [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2009 under HIV, Research, advertisement, advertising, advertising copy, big business, brazil, consumer, corporate greed, drug, drug culture, drugs, human rights, humanism, humanity, manipulation, marketing, medical, medicine.
Tags: ads, advertisement, aids, aids drugs, big pharma, brazil, development, disease, doctors, drug, drug companies, drug company, drug industry, fortune 500, generic, ghostnet, gmail, government, hippie, hippocratic oath, marketing, medicine, patented, pharmaceuticals, pigeons, profits, realage test, Research, snake oil, WHO
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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 consequences [...]
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 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 [...]
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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Depression, Oppression, Gender Socialization, Other Pressing Things
It has come to my attention that about twice as many women are depressed as men. So let’s read about it. Here’s an excerpt from an essay by Marwan M. Kazimi on the link between gender and depression (or you can read the whole essay). Personality attributes of girls and boys have been linked to [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2007 under Research, Western, achievement, adolescent, anxiety, biological, child, children, cultural lens, dependence, depression, eating disorder, emotionality, fear, gender, gender differences, gender socialization, helplessness, hormone, intelligence, mental health, parental, passivity, peer, personality, psychology, rejection, risk, self-esteem, sex difference, sexual abuse, social, social stigma, societal factors, stereotype, stereotypes, symptom, women, women's studies.
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Notes from an insecure country, part dos: las virgenes y las putas
The distinction between the sexes is an important battleground these days. Not only do women demonstrate the capacity to work outside the home, but we have also co-opted behaviors that were previously considered masculine, such as smoking, drinking, and having (gasp!) sexual relations without necessarily planning to marry our partner or be their baby mama.
Posted: July 2nd, 2007 under Argentina, Catholicism, Darwin, Female Sexuality, Research, catholic, center for science and culture, chaste, chastity, color contacts, conduct, culture, discovery institute, drinking, dyed hair, evolution, gay marriage, gender, gender roles, homosexuality, in vitro fertilization, intelligent design, latin america, lip ring, love, machismo, macho, male, maleness, marriage, masculinity, men, morality, premarital sex, prostitute, prostitution, researcher, scholar, science, scientist, sex, sexual morality, sexuality, smoking, target, theory, virginity, virtue.
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