Objectify This

Well, I have to admit it: I’m kinda angry. Or to put it less originally, MY VAGINA’S ANGRY! “Whoa,” you are saying as you back out of the room, “easy there, cowgirl.” I mean, really, that’s a joke: I feel my anger in my brain — you know, that pea-sized appendage. That’s also where I [...]

There’s something fishy going on. Tonight, at dinner, through a mouthful of fried fish, my host brother Julio Cesar said that he was surprised that a Black man had gotten so far in elections in the United States. Julio tried to throw it off casually, but the remark perfectly captures what I think is one [...]

I’ve been listening to the London-based Simian Mobile Disco, a music production team who call themselves “Electro/ Psychadelic/ Alternative” on their Myspace page. They are composed of two guys named James (foreground, left) and claim to sound like “good, old-fashioned, analogue party music” (as their wacky Brit-ball spelling has it). Specifically, I’ve been listening to [...]

So, there’s this thing that I put on my face in the evenings these days, before I go out to shake my thang or down some burrs. The fact that many women feel dependent on this stuff – I have heard countless women explain that they feel incomplete or “naked” without their lipstickeyeshadowmascarafoundationconcealerblush while most [...]

This is a long one. If you’re not interested in theory or crack, you might like this instead. I’ve been writing a lot about the machismo present here in Buenos Aires, and I’ve been looking at it from a pretty unilateral and experience-based place. So it was interesting to read Jo Doezema’s article, “Ouch! Western [...]

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.

1) Painful Truth: Rape Theory: Ann K. Ream wrote this article in the Chicago Tribune about the application of the sexual double standard to the Duke rape case. Semantics: A Nebraska Judge bans the word ‘rape’ from his courtroom — oh, it’s that easy to make it go away? Consequences: Oh, and someone start shopping [...]