this article really doesn’t say much about most of the issues we are concerned with here on GA, but this one paragraph is revealing. what i like about alternet is that it at least bothers to insert some feminist analysis into the news. While the bill doesn’t come close to fulfilling the promise of the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sexism’
health care bill, etc.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged egalitarianism, healthcare, male privilege, politics, sexism on March 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Commentary: Using Sexism to Promote Animal Rights
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged animal rights, commodification, pornography, sexism on December 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
A podcast, by Gary Francione although i do not like this deep manly man voice giving all this wisdom, i wanted to share it anyway. thoughts?
“Objectivity is the name men have given to their own subjectivity”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged male privilege, science, sexism, violence against women on December 14, 2009 | 12 Comments »
This is part of an essay that I wrote for my Domestic Violence class, that I’m a little proud of… This is a segment of it, I tried to put it in context, but I think it’s still pretty accessible. Let me know if you want to read the rest or need more explanation, I [...]
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 [...]
Feministing and Pre-existing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fatphobia, feministing, health care, politics, sexism, trans issues on October 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Feministing had a great post today about how health care reform is a feminist issue and it got me thinking to do a bit of research. What I found was that women are in need of a complete overhaul of our health care system and we need it now. Check out here, here, and here [...]
Lose the blubber? More like lose the douchebaggery.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advertising, animal rights, beauty, body image, fatphobia, gendered insults, media, objectification, PETA, sexism, shaming, vegetarianism on August 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Dear PETA: Sometimes you have pretty cool campaigns. Sometimes you miss the mark entirely and produce crap like this. I don’t know who thought “YES, this is a great idea! Let’s use one of the most derogatory words for fat women and put it on a HUGE billboard and imply that women are whales that [...]
How to Be a Good Girlfriend?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged femininity, identity, media, relationships, romance, sexism on June 28, 2009 | 9 Comments »
This shit is nothing new. I’ve seen this all over the place, all the time. But since I learned feminism, I’ve avoided clicking on these ridiculous links. But I wanted to revisit the brainwashing of women, so I took a look at this slideshow. There’s nothing much to be said about this, like I said, [...]
media again
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged media, objectification, sexism on April 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
the media…never our ally
misogyny in comedy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comedy, gender, media, misogyny, sexism on April 10, 2009 | 14 Comments »
ive noticed that so much comedy is anti-feminist. SO MUCH. lucie wrote about this a whole ago, so im adding onto that thread. ive been watching this show, “30 rock”. when i first saw it, i thought it sucked. the main character, liz lemon, is this total mess. i personally dont see what’s so messy [...]
