'Female Freedom Has an Expiration Date' - Being 35 and Single. Gender and the Body Language of Power. We’re celebrating the end of the year with our most popular posts from 2013, plus a few of our favorites tossed in.
Enjoy! Philosopher Sandra Lee Bartky once observed that being feminine often means using one’s body to portray powerlessness. Consider: A feminine person keeps her body small and contained; she makes sure that it doesn’t take up to much space or impose itself. Things I Never, Ever Want to Hear Again — about work. I cannot even tell you how sick I am of men telling me how I feel.
When I talk about oppression, patriarchy and my experiences in tech, I can feel many things. I may feel sad, amused, jovial, excited, creative, expressive, calm, eager, curious, playful, afraid. [GUEST POST] The Omniscient Breasts by Kate Elliott. Kate Elliott is the author of the Spiritwalker Trilogy (Cold Magic, Cold Fire, and the forthcoming Cold Steel), the Crossroads Trilogy, the Crown of Stars septology, and the Novels of the Jaran.
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She lives in Hawaii. Thanks to Charles Tan for advice on this post. The Omniscient Breasts: The Male Gaze Through Female Eyes My reading experience of fantasy & science fiction over forty years is that it is mostly written with the male gaze. Dykestowatchoutfor.com. Where Looks Don’t Matter and Only the Best Writers Get Laid. How the feminist internet utopia failed, and we ended up with speculative realism A/S/L?
With the quintessential chat room question, you’re asking: where are you, and what body are you in? It doesn’t matter if the answer is true—any answer lets you envision a person on the other end of the line. You just need to imagine that person in a body to believe you’re not talking to a computer. 'The Finkbeiner Test' There’s still a gender gap in the sciences, with far fewer women than men in research jobs, and those women earning substantially less, but it doesn’t help when journalists treat every female scientist they profile as an archetype of perseverance.
Such was the consensus that emerged from a discussion prompted by a March 5 post at Double X Science by freelancer Christie Aschwanden, who observed that: Campaigns to recognize outstanding female scientists have led to a recognizable genre of media coverage. Let’s call it “A lady who…” genre. “Nice Guys” Contribute to Rape Culture. Daniel Tosh makes jokes that support rape culture and he’s defended as a “nice guy” while feminists are threatened with rape for pointing it out.
Joe Paterno is accused of participating in a cover up of child rape and his “legend” legacy is defended while Sandusky’s victims are slandered. Misconceptions about sexual and domestic violence persist, despite feminists’ best efforts to educate the public. How Do You Change a Bro-Dominated Culture? It’s getting harder and harder to separate the men from the bros.
The Real Reason for the Upsurge in 'Hidden Camera' Perverts. "Both the research and the police blotters make one thing clear: there are virtually no women who engage in this kind of predatory voyeurism.
The foremost living expert on paraphilias, University of Toronto sexologist and psychiatrist James Cantor claims that courtship disorder is almost entirely a male phenomenon. A Woman's Worst Nightmare. By Mary Dickson© 1996 "Lots of Men Are Glad One Woman is Gone," a recent newspaper headline announced.
"Some men believe Stephanie Dawn Kirk is their worst nightmare come true," the article by a Salt Lake City writer began. What Could Obama Learn from Julia Gillard's Speech on Australian Misogyny? Australians living in the United States are accustomed to their American friends passing along “news” from back home about dingoes and crocodiles.
The scapegoating of Nancy Lanza. Addressing the bereaved community of Sandy Hook last week, President Obama read the names of Adam Lanza's victims – all 26. On the one-week anniversary of America's second-most lethal school shooting, bells tolled across the nation – 26 times. But even omitting his suicide, the impenetrable killer's victims numbered 27. American education has not so deteriorated that even the president can't count.
The discreetly deleted fatality was Adam's first and no doubt primary target: his mother, shot in her bed, four times in the head. Selling Cleaning and Parenting to Women Only. Sociologists use the term “stalled revolution” to describe how current state of the feminist movement. It’s “stalled” in that, while women are (mostly) free to do what men do, men have been much more reluctant to do what women have traditionally done. This makes sense because masculine things are generally valued and feminine things are not. Housework is one of these things. Married women still do twice as much housework and childcare as their husbands, on average. Unpacking the invisible knapsack. Seven years ago, I read an article that completely changed the way I thought about what racism is, and the privileges I experience as an upper-middle class white person.
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, I'd like to share that article here. Lauren Greenfield Photography - Girl Culture intro. Sally Ride tribute poster. Vol 10, Iss 4, Pgs 421-660, (September, 2013) Girls petition for Teen Vogue to put an end to airbrushed photos. The Evolution of Japanese Schoolgirl Uniforms. How YouTube is failing women. The most important issue facing YouTube wasn’t addressed at VidCon, the video-sharing site’s annual convention, held in early August. Instead, a group of about 200 people gathered a stone’s throw from the Anaheim Convention Center to discuss the challenges women face on the platform.
Sheryl Sandberg and "Lean In": The Folly of Davos Feminism. Why Sheryl Sandberg is No Betty Friedan. Be Bossy And Proud Of It (with tweets) · FakeRobotGamer. Feminism’s Tipping Point: Who Wins from Leaning in? Sinead O’Connor’s Remarkable Open Letter To Miley Cyrus. An open letter to sinéad o’connor, re: miley cyrus. The official website of Amanda Fucking Palmer. Edit 10/06/2013: read a sort-of followup to this blog HERE when you’re done with this and all of the amazing discussion in the comments section. Movies, Culture, and Women. Mad Men civil rights for women — Critical Commons. The Loves of Lena Dunham by Elaine Blair. Girls a television series on HBO created by Lena Dunham There are many reasons to love Lena Dunham’s HBO television show Girls, and some of them have nothing to do with sex, but I’m going to begin with the sex scene in the second episode that most critics have mentioned and described with some amount of repugnance or lament.
Top 10 Secretly Feminist Films – Sundance Channel. Smearing of feminism – a history through illustrations « GenderBen! Sorry Feminists—NOT! It's 2012 already: why is opinion writing still mostly male? What if every Olympic sport was photographed like beach volleyball? Streeter Lecka/Getty Images We were browsing Getty Images last week for images of Olympic beach volleyball when we came upon something interesting. And by “interesting,” we mean “kind of gross.” Check out these results: I Have a Character Issue. Eating Bugs and Testicles: A Woman's Journey Into Macho Food Culture - Laura Shapiro.