I know I’ve been kind of binge-posting lately, but I thought y’all might find this article interesting. detail.asp?page=1&id=26601 I know not all of us are on the Lady Gaga fan train, but I think this article is a fine example of a positive quality of Lady Gaga: she sometimes picks really rad people to work [...]
Posts Tagged ‘media’
gaga associates with cool people: another reason why i love her
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gender, Lady Gaga, media on March 22, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Teeth: Biting off more than you would ever want to chew? No hetero.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abstinence-only education, cultural shame, gender, media, misogyny, movies about rape, rape, sexualization, vagina dentata, violence against women on March 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
So I just watched the movie Teeth. This is one rich film for a feminist. I highly recommend watching it. If you want to watch it before I give away the plot, I know you can find it for free at Surfthechannel… or you could, like, pay to watch it. Not like I did, but [...]
Representations of Sex/uality
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advertising, brown university, exploitation, feminism, gender, images, language, media, objectification, power, relationships, sex, sexism, sexualization on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Or, alternatively titled: “Making the Brown Sex Week 2010 Poster” (This is a cross-post from the SHEEC blog/my blog) My goals were that the poster: Wouldn’t imply a certain relationship status Wouldn’t be objectifying and just like any other ad on TV Wouldn’t be heteronormative (and ideally not homonormative, either, which is…not easy to do–most [...]
Lady Gaga’s New Video!!! ZOMG. But really, also, let’s discuss.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Lady Gaga, media on March 12, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Juicy. Lady Gaga. Juicy. Some things to ponder… Lesbian prison scenes! Why in a prison? Gaga’s sexually ambiguous relationship with Beyoncé! Is it just me or did they make Beyoncé whiter??? Use of the Kill Bill “Pussy Wagon”: feminist reclamation or glorification of (faux) girl power movie? Resemblance to Thelma & Louise “To be continued…” [...]
Polarized Bodies
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Crystal Renn, fashion, fatphobia, media, nytimes, objectification, racism, sexualization on January 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Everyone seems to be talking about Crystal Renn these days. The New York Times claims she’s “The Triumph of the Size 12s.” Jezebel says she’s not. And commenters think that having Crystal Renn in 8 page photoshoots is encouraging obesity. So here’s my take. Photographers and Designers told Crystal Renn she was too fat, now [...]
The racial politics of Avatar
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fetishization, media, racism, sexualization on December 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The racial politics of Avatar If Jake’s attraction is primarily sexual, it has to be interpreted through the historical White fetishization of women of color. From the slave masters’ midnight visits to the contemporary exoticization of Asian and Black female sexuality, women of color have served as the leading figures of White sexual fantasies. In [...]
Sixteen Candles
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged media, racism, rape, rape culture, sexism on December 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A few nights ago I sat down with my whole family to watch a movie: Sixteen Candles directed by John Hughes (who also gave us Home Alone and the Breakfast Club) I don’t know what it was about this PG rated “sweet and funny” (Roger Ebert) teen classic; maybe it was the fact that when [...]
Peta, again.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged media, objectification, PETA, pornography, sexualization on November 12, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Peta did it again. For those who can’t read the fine print, this ad is apparently advertising for “Animal Birth Control”–so simple even playboy cover-girl Dita Von Teese understands how sexy it is. I’m all for preventing deaths of dogs and cats in shelters, but I don’t understand why we need to objectify women to [...]
damn, being a woman is the worst!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, happiness, income, media, men, motherhood, nytimes on September 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Wow. Comments? I might edit this to add my opinions about why this article is fucked up, but I want to hear it from you all first.
The Vaccine that only sometimes works
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged disease, exploitation, HPV vaccine, media, medicine on September 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was skeptical when all the buzz about the HPV vaccine began. This post reflects some of my concerns about it. We already knew that women everywhere, including in the west, are used as tools to uphold the current world order, which includes the enrichment of the super-wealthy corporations concentrated in the U.S. and Europe, [...]
