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"You Can Pry My Guns From My Cold, Dead Hands . . ."
“. . . but that’ll be hard, because they’re attached,” deadpans Sarah Haskins. While Haskins not actually the same person as Olympic triathelete Sarah Haskins, she is nonetheless a superhero for our age. Haskin’s show Target Women on Current TV is an answer to ObviousMan. Here’s a lady who can dissect our news media’s obsession [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2009 under Comedy, advertisement, advertising, comic, commercial, consumer whore, consumerism, humor, weight loss, woman, women.
Tags: comedian, Comedy, commentary, commercial, consumer, consumer whore, current tv, femininity, feminism, glade, guns, laundry detergent, Media, michlle obama, obviousman, orgasm, sarah haskins, second city, superhero, target women, Tina Fey, triathlete, triceps
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: Economics of Gender Inequality, Part 3
III. The Myth of the Broken Glass Ceiling in the Sciences In 2005, Larry Summers suggested that women might not enter scientific fields as often as men because of “innate differences,” according to this article from the Boston Globe. This infuriated the female scientific community, because scientific studies indicate that women don’t enter male-dominated fields [...]
Posted: March 13th, 2009 under economics, economy, gender, gender bias, gender culture, gender differences, gender disparity, gender equality, gender role, gender roles, gender socialization, pay, politics, wage gap, women, women in science, work, working conditions.
Tags: achievement, article, assignments, awards, career, citation, committees, competence, difference, distinctions, economics, economy, equality, experiment, faculty, female, female faculty, flexibility, gender, gender equality, gender roles, glass ceiling, grants, innate differences, journals, lab space, Larry Summers, lead author, male dominated fields, MIT, nature, obama effect, objective measure, pay, performance, progress, publications, rationality, Research, research grants, salary, science, scientific fields, scientific studies, self-perception, sex, sex differences, space, status, studies, study, teaching assignments, wage, wages, women, work, workforce
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Onward, Feminist Soldiers: The Battle of . . . Do We Really Want a Battle?
Jessica Lynch “was born in Palestine, West Virginia,” according to the Wikipedia page about her. It continues, “her family could not afford to send her to college; her older brother had to drop out for financial reasons. Searching for a way to pay for the children’s educations, the Lynch family met with an army recruiter [...]
Posted: October 19th, 2008 under discrimination, female, female empowerment, female leader, feminine energy, femininity, feminism, fight, male worldview, maleness, males, man, masculine systems, masculinity, military, military casualties, misogynisitic, misogynist, misogynistic, misogynists, obama, september, september 11, sexism, sexist, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual difference, sexual dimorphism, sexual inequality, stereotype, stereotypes, terrorism, terrorist, violation, violence, war, war on terror, weapons, women, women in the military, women's liberation, women's movement, women's rights, work, working conditions.
Tags: barack obama, college, community service, congo, Dahomey Amazons, destiny's child, eye of the tiger, fast food, female soldier, feminist, gender, gender blind, gender role, gender stereotype, globalization, hierarchy, inés suarez, infantry, islamic militant, jessica lynch, Joan of Arc, lionesses, masculinity, military, molly pitcher, navy seals, patriarchy, physical strength, pine leaf, power, Qiu Jin, Rani Lakshmibai, rape, sarah palin, self defense, september 11, sex, sexism, sexual dimorphism, sexual power, silver star, special forces, stereotype, strength, survivor, terrorism, test tube babies, violence, war, war on terror, warrior, weakness, women, work, zivildienst
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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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Bitch Is The New Black, Says Tina Fey
I gotta say, I’m not a huge fan of Hillary, but I would vote for Tina Fey.
Posted: February 28th, 2008 under Ohio, Texas, Tina Fey, Vermont, bill clinton, bitch, black, clinton, co-president, feminism, feminist, feminists, fey, george bush, hillary, husband, hutch, jeb bush, jeff conaway, marriage, news, nun, nuns, obama, oprah, ronald reagan, rush limbaugh, sex, starsky, tina, weekend news update, women.
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Miss Landmine Angola, 2008: The Right to Beauty & Agency
Hat tip to Broadsheet for this inspiring story of how Nordic artist Morten Traavik uses beauty pageants to subvert modern standards of beauty. In a country where 23 years of civil war has left 80,000 people disabled, Angolan society objectifies survivors of violence as passive victims and dismisses them as useless to society. Although the inclusion [...]
Posted: November 20th, 2007 under 2008, Kathleen Palmer, active, american apparel, angola, antioch, awareness, beauty, beauty pageant, candidate, civil war, college, cultural cooperation, disabled, empowerment, female empowerment, feminism, feminist, gender role, grammar, gun, hookup, international women's day, landmine, landmines, manifesto, miss landmine, morten traavik, objectification, orthopedic, passive, physical perfection, pride, rape, sex, sex lives, sexuality, survivor, victim, violence, vote, women.
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ONSLAUGHT: the campaign against women's self esteem
Following Dove’s “Evolution” campaign, they’ve come out with this new ad that points to the effects of the objectification of women on the self-esteem of girls and women. (Hat tip to Cathy for the link.) Interestingly, they call attention to the fact that the style of
Posted: November 7th, 2007 under Bust, Female Sexuality, Neil Strauss, The Game, affirmation, assholes, backhanded, beauty, bullshit, cellulite, compliments, conglomerate, cream, destiny, fat, girls, humor, integrity, intelligence, low self esteem, objectification, pick up artists, power, seduction community, self-esteem, sexuality, standard of beauty, women.
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