Archive for 'Sex Roles'
Bleeding-Heart Naturalism: Renewing Discussion of The Pill
So recently, my friend Rishi threw me some great articles about the Pill and the evolutionary context of menstruation (thanks, Rish!). The first is a long but intriguing article from the New Yorker detailing the history of the discovery that women, in general, did not have as many periods in pre-industrial society as they do [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2007 under ABC News, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Lybrel, Monty Python, New Yorker, Renaissance, Sex Roles, Slate.com, Women and Gender Studies, bleeding, bodies, breast cancer, conservative, contraceptive, cramps, environment of evolutionary adaptiveness, erection, evolution, evolutionary theory, gender roles, homosexuality, incontinence, men, menarche, menstrual period, menstruation, migraines, mood swings, natural selection, nausea, ovarian cancer, ovulation, period, psychology, respect, self defense, the pill, theory, uterine cancer, wet dream, women's health.
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There’s A First Time For Everything, but todavia no for Graciela
I just stumbled across this story from the BBC about Graciela Yataco, a Peruvian model-cum-actress who at the age of 18 has been working to support her mother and brother for 10 years and out of school for 3. The article’s about her decision to sell, and then not to sell, her virginity for 1.5 [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2007 under BBC, Canada, Catholicism, Christianity, Genesis, God, Graciela Yataco, Judeo-Christian, Peru, Pornography, Sex Roles, Women and Gender Studies, objectification, pimp, porn star, prostitute, prostitution, sex, sex work, sex workers, sexual advance, virginity.
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“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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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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Reactions to Objectification in Japan
Rape culture in Japan is much more extreme than it is here in the States. There is a weaker taboo against ephebophilia, the “sexual preference in which an adult is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted to pubescent adolescents,” which has resulted in a culture of so called “lollipop” or “Lolita” pornography of prepubescent girls, of [...]
Posted: May 22nd, 2007 under FRUiTS, Hideaki Anno, Japan, Japanese, Lolita, Love & Pop, Pornography, Sex Roles, Tokyo, adolescence, agency, enjo kosai, ephebophilia, fashion, fashion photography, film, fresh fruits, lollipop, objectification, photography, porn, prostitute, prostitution, punk, rape, sex, sexual preference, statutory rape, street fashion, subsidized dating, taboo, tentacle rape.
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