Objectify This

Hello lovelies! I’m still hard at work on applications. But here are some links for you in the meantime! Over at Sociological Images, Marissa explores the implications of representing sex on bathroom signs for our understanding of sex and gender. At AmplifyYourVoice, actual abstinence-only curricula meets animated bears. The New York Times reports on the [...]

On Fighting Corporate Mind Control: Yes,  the Yes Men are awesome. Yes, they are fixing the world, or at least promoting a movie about it. They’re committed to demonstrating that corporations’ dignity is not as important as human dignity. So is Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping, who are concerned with helping [...]

Are women’s magazines bad for women? It might seem like a stupid question. But when, as the New York Times reports, a University of Missouri study “found that looking at women’s magazines for 1-3 minutes had a negative impact on women’s self esteem. So imagine what happens if we’re bombarded by these images every day.” [...]

Are spicy things sexy? Well, it’s hard to say, really. Not here in America Latina, por lo menos. There are separate words for hot (caliente) and spicy (picante) and while caliente has overt sexual overtones, picante generally does not. . . at least in the places where I’ve lived. Then again, Colombia and Costa Rica [...]

Geek chic is in. Even the New York Times knows it. While in previous years that would mean that it’s already passé, Obama has ushered in a celebration of the passé – both a revival of the cult of the individual and a trumph of sincerity. I know that it’s odd to label the onset [...]

I’m writing this post with this header image in the hopes that it will not appear to be an advertisement for sex. This is not usually a problem I have; most of the things that I blog about are not nearly this much fun. That’s why I am boldly persevering, despite it all. Being a [...]

I was recently driving around my city (and by recently, i mean two weeks ago, since I’m currently stationed in Colombia, South America, in a city that’s anything but my own) and I saw one of those cars plastered with bumper stickers- coexist, hug a tree, my other car is a broomstick, that sort of [...]