Archive for 'Wikipedia'
Objectify These Links!
Ok, so it’s a crazy time of year. I have four papers this weekend, and a thesis, and I’m applying for fellowships for next year. But I want to keep you posted about the amazing/horrific things out there. So, here’re some interesting links I’ve come across in my few minutes of procrastination: – Runways Fade [...]
Posted: October 15th, 2007 under Cameron Diaz, Jena, Wikipedia, anonymous, egg rolls, fashion, guerilla, handbag, i love you, jena 6, john mellencamp, lifetime, links, love, maoist, mayor, music, noose, objectification, poetry, procrastination, project, racism, rebel, revolution, song, warfare.
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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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Apologetics: Excuse me, I’m not sorry!
Hat tip to Thinking Girl for leading me to A Cat And Twenty‘s thought-provoking article on the overused apology. Kate D. of ACAT cites example after example of women who were victimized and then apologized. Why do women apologize so much? I’m sorry, I have no idea, so I went to Wikipedia, so I could [...]
Posted: June 12th, 2007 under Apologetics, Greek, Pigeon Detectives, Wikipedia, apology, double standard, etymology, femininity, feminism, feminist theory, rape, rape victim, sorry, spanish.
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Symbolic Rape: From Dolce & Gabbana to Grand Theft Auto
Hat tip to mparham for this article from the Austrailian periodical The Age which details Dolce & Gabbana’s cancellation of an advertising campaign which ostensibly promoted violence against women. The image depicts a man holding down a woman’s wrists as other symmetrically-featured, oiled men look on with what appears to be mild contemplation. Is this really [...]
Posted: May 12th, 2007 under American Psychological Association, Dolce & Gabbana, Female Sexuality, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, LA Times, Sex Roles, U.S. Senate, Wikipedia, erotica, exploitation, hot coffee, mature, objectification, prostitution, rape, sexual assault, symbolism, the gaze, video game ratings, violence against women.
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I can see clearly now, my Cultural Bias is gone. . .
Rereading my site, it seems to me that some more layers need to be involved. For example, one of my friends who hails from Pakistan told me about how one of her feminist aunts chooses to wear the chador because she finds it freeing to hide her appearance from other people. It happened, she said, [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2007 under Edward Said, Freud, George Washington University, Islam, Mahmoud Ahmadinejah, Mary, Mary Magdalene, New York Times, Orientalism, Pakistan, Richard Gere, Robert Albro, Sex Roles, Shariah, Shilpa Shetty, Wikipedia, chador, cultural bias, human dignity, kissing, objectification, symbolism.
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Kanye West’s Gold Digger: Cashing in On Social Capital
Saturday night’s Mos Def concert was punctuated by frequent samples to highlight the talents of Mos’ DJs. One of the samples they chose was the bouncy blues of Ray Charles’ “I Got A Woman” (click for an audio-only experience; this was pre-MTV). A girl behind me bopping her head to the beat, was trying to [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2007 under Gold Digger, I Got a Woman, Kanye West, MTV, Misogyny, Mos Def, Psalm One, Ray Charles, Wikipedia, exploitation, hip hop, music video.
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