Anti-capitalism_color.gif (682×850) Grero: The Masculine Gender and Cure for Heterosexuality. Sexism in music industry. Although we’re all aware of the greed and discrimination in the music industry, it’s still alarming to see specific incidents of undeserved fear and heartache based on gender.
In the last few days, two awful accounts of bigotry have surfaced in the news, reminding us that sexism in the music world exists on a massive and global scale. The first story, as you may have heard, made headlines on Feb. 1st after a disturbing YouTube video of J-pop star Minami Minegishi of the group AKB48 went viral and sparked controversy. In the video, the 20-year-old pop star –– who had just shaved her head in a state of frenzy prior to recording –– tearfully apologizes for having a boyfriend. That’s right. A 20-year-old woman was made to feel as though she owed the world an apology for having a boyfriend. She explained, “What I have done was such a thoughtless and a lack of self-awareness behavior.”
Written by Nicole Woszczyna. Northern korea prison camps. Shin Dong-Hyuk ... he says the Holocaust is still going on in North Korea.
Photo: AFP North Korea's prison camps are a closed-off world of death, torture and forced labour where babies are born slaves, according to two survivors who liken the horrors of the camps to a Holocaust in progress. "People think the Holocaust is in the past, but it is still very much a reality. It is still going on in North Korea," Shin Dong-Hyuk said through an interpreter on the sidelines of a human rights summit in Geneva. The birth of a baby is a blessed thing in the outside world, but inside the camp, babies are born to be slaves like their parents.
Shin himself spent his first 23 years in a prison camp in the secretive country, where he says he was tortured and subjected to forced labour before making a spectacular escape seven years ago - and giving the outside world a rare first-hand account of life inside the camps. Kang Chol-Hwan ... was imprisoned with his family. Advertisement. Are our daughters dumbing down? Photo credit: snapshot from Think on Vimeo When one of my fellow Parentables contributors suggested we write about a new book exposing "how women in America are less knowledgeable about current events and our own government than they are about celebrity details," many attempts to steer my daughter away from the rumor rags towards magazines with more coverage of current political and cultural events encouraged me to take the topic.
Is it possible there is a book that can help moms everywhere win this crucial adolescent skirmish? I often wonder if it was hard for my two girls growing up with a chemist mom, all logic and no make-up. But Lisa Bloom's amusing anecdotes about her childhood relegate my mothering to the category of cake-walk. Lisa's world view was shaped by her mother, the high-profile feminist attorney Gloria Allred, and her alternative father -- parents who taught her to question even such apparent no-brainers as whether the Dalai Lama or giving to charity are "good". Video: think! Feminism cartoon. Human rights watch. Video: reinventing feminism. Video: poverty, money - and love.