Tag: education
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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Newsflash: Women's Shoes Hurt, Sex feels Good, Rape is the Fault of Rapists
Sometimes, the News Media has all the answers. The New York Times reports that a recent study shows that women’s shoes hurt their feet. Women mostly have sex because “it feels good,” according to a new study reviewed on Salon.com by Tracy Clark-Flory. Also, the only sexual assault prevention tips guaranteed to work are those [...]
Posted: October 7th, 2009 under rape, rapist, sex, shoes.
Tags: awareness, college, education, men, New York Times, newsflash, rape, sex, sexual assault, shoes
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: The Economics of Gender Inequality, Pt. IV
IV. Inflexibility of Gender/Pay Relationship Transgender pay differences reflect gender pay differences. Last October, Andrew Sullivan pointed to research that “found that women who become men (known as FTMs) do significantly better than men who become women (MTFs). MTFs in the study earned, on average, 32% less after they transitioned from male to female, even [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2009 under Congress, Freud, crisis, cross-dressing, discrimination, disempowerment, economics, economy, feminism, feminist, gender, gender bias, gender differences, gender dynamics, gender equality, gender power, gender role, gender roles, gender socialization, legislation, politics, taboo.
Tags: abigail adams, african-american, aid legislation, anthropology, Baltimore, biological gender, body modification, california, castration, childhood, david harvey, difference, discrimination, economic analysis, education, female circumcision, feminism, feminists, financial crisis, financial loss, flipping, founding father, Freud, FTM, gender, gender bias, gender difference, gender equality, gender roles, genital cutting, geography, home ownership, identity, identity politics, income, john quincy adams, katrina, layoffs, legislation, lesbian, low-income, Manhater, median, mortgage, MTF, n+1, pay, policy, senate compromise, single mothers, socialization, speculation, study, taboo, taboos, transition, wages
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Sir Robinson: Schools Kill Creativity – "Did I Miss a Meeting?"
In his talk at the Technology Entertainment Design Conference in Monterey, California, Sir Ken Robinson contends that schools kill creativity. In order to educate our children, we need to prepare them for the future, duh. Robinson is offering a perspective on creativity as something learned, or rather unlearned. To me, this is at least as [...]
Posted: September 12th, 2008 under creativity, policy, ted.
Tags: california, creativity, education, funding, ken robinson, lil' wayne, lip, lipring, mistakes, policy, ring, shakespeare, ted, TED talks
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One Vagina, Two Vaginae: Red Vagina vs. Blue Vagina.
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 [...]
Posted: September 7th, 2008 under Freud, WASP, constitutional, femininity, feminism, feminist, guerilla, hillary clinton, hysteria, palin, personal, personal experience, political, politicians, politics, rights, the pill, theory, universe, vagina.
Tags: abortion, amy goodman, blue man group, bros before hoes, Bush, chromosomes, democracy, democracy now, democrat, education, feminism, first amendment rights, freedom of the press, Freud, gays, God, GOP, guerrilla, guns, health and human services, hillary rodham clinton, hysteria, identity politics, love that dares not speak its name, male control, maverick, micheal leavitt, old testament, palin, personal, political, politics, pregnancy, republican, republican national convention, right to choose, rnc, state aid, swift-boat, theory, universe, uterus, vagina, WASP
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Straight From The Horse's Mouth: The Truth About Race in America
Lou Dobbs has done it again. There is no “race problem” in America. . . only racist people like Lou Dobbs, making veiled allusions to Condoleeza Rice as a cotton . . . what? A cotton-picking politician? Wait, what was this about no problems talking about race? Check out the outrageous footage after the jump. [...]
Posted: April 3rd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Tags: african, african-american, black, carlos j. ovando, condoleeza, contesting whiteness, cotton, cotton-picker, cotton-picking, dictionary, diverse, diversity, education, founding fathers, heritage, ignorance, lou dobbs, peter mclaren, privilege, problem, race, racism, racist, rice, slave, slavery, slaves, slur, urban, white
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