Archive for 'Self Objectification'
32 Flavas of That Bootylicious Radio Monopoly
Recently, I was dancing around my kitchen to my local Clear Channel top 40 station for hiphop and r&b. The song was Crime Mob’s “Rock Yo’ Hips,” and I stopped stirring the corn bean salad in disbelief when Diamond’s solo came on. She was making a (veiled), but definitely unmistakeable reference to Ani Difranco’s song [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2007 under 32 flavors, Ani Difranco, Clear Channel, Crime Mob, Female Sexuality, Rock Yo' Hips, Self Objectification, bodies, bootylicious, commercial radio, diamond, feminity, girl, hip hop, izzle as a suffix, lyric, monopoly, music video, objectification, pretty, radio, rap, self image, ugly.
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Definitions: Sex, Oral Sex, Children, and Consent
Yesterday, the New York Times reports, Genarlow Wilson was released from prison after having “served two years of 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with another teenager at a party when he was 17.” What?! This is the same act that, according to a 2002 survey conducted among teenagers in South Boston, is [...]
Posted: June 12th, 2007 under Atlanta, Female Sexuality, Genarlow Wilson, Georgia, HIV, Latin, Massachusetts, Rome, STIs, Self Objectification, South Boston, Wikipedia, agency, anal sex, arousal, birth control, bodies, child, child molestation, child molestor, chlamydia, consent, criminal, deep throat, fellatio, felony, female orgasm, feminism, gang rape, gonorrhea, herpes, kissing, misdemeanor, oral rape, oral sex, parole, pre-Christian, sex, sex research, sexual pleasure, sexual responsibility, sexually transmitted infections, teen sex.
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Pass the Gender Role, Bro: How We Form and Perpetuate Stereotypes
Thanks to Huehueteotl for this awesome post on intellectual vanities, “Gender Role and How We Gain It.” It packs quite a punch when read alongside CultureKitchen’s “How to Create a Rape Victim“by Nezua Limon Xol. The former deals with the social construction of gender, and the second with the social construction of gender power. This [...]
Posted: June 4th, 2007 under Dick and Jane, FBI, Gay, NOW, National Organization for Women, Self Objectification, Sex Roles, Vietnam, Women and Gender Studies, battered women, cartoon, cultural bias, domestic violence, empowerment, family culture, family values, gender, gender bias, graffiti, homelessness, juvenile offenders, lesbian, love, miscarriage, motherhood, murder, parenting, politics, poverty, psychology, rape victim, science and gender, self, self image, sex research, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual inequality, social class, sociology, stereotype, stillbirth, suicide, tradition, violence, violence against women, women battering, women's rights.
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I, Fembot: the Object and Subject revisited
Sit back and grab a drink, because this might be a long haul. You’re back! Sweet. Here goes: a good friend recently brought up self-objectification in a frank conversation about sex. “Really, I don’t see what’s wrong with it,” she said, “I like feeling sexy.” I listened to her argument, but I remain skeptical that [...]
Posted: June 3rd, 2007 under Barbara Stanwyck, Barbie, Equal Pay Act, Female Sexuality, I'm in love with a stripper, Lady of Burlesque, National Committee On Pay Equity, PTSD, Perfect Gentleman, Pornography, Renegade Evolution, Self Objectification, Sex Roles, T-Pain, Wyclef Jean, agency, black women, blogging, boyfriend, cartoon, depression, empowerment, expatriate, feminism, fucking, hispanic women, jean, objectification, porn, posttraumatic stress disorder, power, psychology, renegade, self, self image, sex, sex object, sex work, sexual advance, sexual harassment, sexual inequality, sexual pleasure, stripper, stripping, violence, violence against women, wage gap, wyclef.
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Heart Shaped Glasses/La Belle et Le Bad Boy
In a typically prescriptivist (definition) recent article from AOL, they wrote a horror-struck review of Marilyn Manson’s music video ‘Heart Shaped Glasses’, which stars the actress Evan Rachel Wood of Thirteen. The video portrays several scenes of sex, one of which involves a lot of random blood and (warning, plot spoiler to follow) the love [...]
Posted: May 16th, 2007 under AOL, Christian Parents, Evan Rachel Wood, Female Sexuality, Heart Shaped Glasses, La Belle et le Bad Boy, MC Solaar, Marilyn Manson, Self Objectification, Sex Roles, Thelma and Louise, Thirteen, agency, bad boy, fucking, love, music video, sex, subversion.
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What A Piece of Work is Man
I recently came across some discussions of gender by- wait for it, wait for it – men. Thomas Brakar and Clif of Blown Glass are in a heated (blog) discussion over their differing perceptions of the masculinity crisis. For starters, Brakar believes that there is one, while Clif thinks that “Quite simply, it’s a generational [...]
Posted: May 16th, 2007 under Columbine, Foucault, Jackson Katz, Laura Mulvey, Reversa, Self Objectification, Sex Roles, Sut Jhally, Virginia Tech, blogging, effeminate, gender, homophobia, masculinity, masculinity crisis, men, objectification, panopticon, racism, rape, school shooting, {URL}.
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College Sex Magazines and the Photographer as Subject
Stripping to pay for college is fairly common these days, leading some to question where the power lies in the profession in today’s sex-positive atmosphere: with the customer or the stripper? Across the East Coast, students at colleges and universities have been breaking into another sexy industry: pornography. In this article from the New York [...]
Posted: May 12th, 2007 under Boink, Boston University, H-Bomb, Harvard, Howard Stern, New York Times, Outlet, Playboy, Pornography, SWAY, Self Objectification, Squirm, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Vita Excolatur, college, erotica, francesca woodman, playful nudity, porn, social class, stripping, suicide, the gaze, violence against women.
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