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Liberty, Stand Up to Stupak!
Last week, the long-awaited passage of health care reform came at a hefty cost. Bart Stupak’s amendment to HR 3962 prevents women receiving federal subsidies from buying health insurance that covers abortion. This attack on the reproductive rights of poor Americans may have dire repercussions for women and society, and that may be what the [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2009 under agency, gender, gender culture, hostile environment, politics, rape, social class, socialization, society, socioeconomics.
Tags: abortion, bill, burt stupak, child care, christian right, conception, contraception, crime, Declaration of Independence, federal subsidies, fetus, fetuses, gender, gender power, happiness, harassment, health care, hostile environment, HR 3962, incest, injustice, justice, liberty, miscarriages, national right to life committee, nutrition, power, pregnancy, pro life, rape, reform, right to life, sex, sex education, sexual assault, sexual partner, smoking, social class, social power, socioeconomic class, state, std, stereotype, stereotype threat, title IX, wage inequality, welfare
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Where Are My Spectacles II: Who Defends Women in the Dept. of Defense?
[trigger warning] What is this? Who defends women in the Department of Defense? Not Republican senators, apparently. When Al Franken brought forward legislation to combat the horrifically hostile and sexually abusive environment found in the Department of Defense and amongst its contractors on October 6th, a block of thirty white men rose up in opposition. [...]
Posted: October 21st, 2009 under government, labor, law, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual violence, social class, social inequality, socioeconomics, work, working conditions.
Tags: Acorn, al franken, amendment, class, class warfare, college, department of defense, education, equality, fair trial, gang rape, government, Halliburton, human dignity, human rights, Jamie Leigh Jones, jon stewart, labor, law, legal rights, legislation, military, partisan, patsy t. mink, politics, rape, republican, rights, senate, senators, sexual abuse, sexual harrassment, sexual respect, social class, socioeconomic, socioeconomics, The Crooked Dope, the law, title 9, title IX, title nine, unions, universities, work, workers' rights, working conditions
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: Notes on Gender Inequality, Part 1
The New York Times recently published an item about economic gender inequality that’s quite appalling. The report states that “nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job.” It continues, [...]
Posted: March 7th, 2009 under culture, discrimination, disrespect, sex discrimination, sexism, sexual difference, sexual inequality, social class, social inequality, socialization, sociology.
Tags: children, discrimination, disparity, economics, economist, economists, equality, financial success, gap, gender, have it all, having it all, interactive graphic, job, Manhater, marriage, marry, money, pay, paycheck, reproduction, sex, sexism, unfairness, wage
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The Commodification of (White) Morality: Who'll Pay Reparations on My Soul?
Like Gil Scott-Heron (you may be familiar with his hit “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised“), I’m going to spend this post, the first in a long time, asking the admittedly pretentious-sounding question, “Who’ll Pay Reparations on My Soul?”. I’m asking because it sure won’t be Whole Foods, or hybrid cars, or organic cigarettes, or [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2008 under America, American, God, Guantanamo, White America, americans, anti-racism, capitalism, capitalist, class, free, freedom, guantanamo bay, minority, morality, morals, obama, race, racism, racist, racists, revolution, social class, social construction, white.
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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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“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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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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