What is “slut-shaming”? « Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog. Short answer: Slut-shaming, also known as slut-bashing, is the idea of shaming and/or attacking a woman or a girl for being sexual, having one or more sexual partners, acknowledging sexual feelings, and/or acting on sexual feelings. Furthermore, it’s “about the implication that if a woman has sex that traditional society disapproves of, she should feel guilty and inferior” (Alon Levy, Slut Shaming).
It is damaging not only to the girls and women targeted, but to women in general an society as a whole. It should be noted that slut-shaming can occur even if the term “slut” itself is not used. What constitutes “slut-shaming” Put in the most simple terms, slut-shaming happens when a person “publicly or privately [insults] a woman because she expressed her sexuality in a way that does not conform with patriarchal expectations for women” (Kat, Slut-Shaming vs. Rape Jokes). As illustrated above, any woman who has had sex can be a victim of slut-shaming. The sexual double standard On “Male Sluts” Why War Isn't Inevitable: A Science Writer Studies the Secret to Peaceful Societies | World. Photo Credit: AFP/File - Staff Sgt. Antonieta Rico March 18, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email.
When President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he expressed a well-worn notion about warfare: "[W]ar is sometimes necessary, and war is at some level an expression of human feelings. " Today, as the drumbeats for war with Iran once again reach bellicose heights, a timely new book argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, waging war is not an innate part of human nature. In The End of War, veteran science journalist John Horgan applies the scientific method to reach a unique conclusion: biologically speaking, we are just as likely to be peaceful as we are to be violent.
Brad Jacobson: Was there an overriding factor that drove you to write this book? There have been other surveys of people's attitudes toward war going back to the 1980s. Anarchism Is Not What You Think It Is -- And There's a Whole Lot We Can Learn from It. February 13, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. On February 8, 1921 twenty thousand people, braving temperatures so low that musical instruments froze, marched in a funeral procession in the town of Dimitrov, a suburb of Moscow. Some 90 years later few know of Kropotkin. I am astonished Hollywood has yet to discover Kropotkin. His struggles against tyranny resulted in years in Russian and French jails.
In the 1920s Roger N. “Kropotkin is referred to by scores of people who knew him in all walks of life as "the noblest man" they ever knew. For our purposes Kropotkin’s most enduring legacy is his work on anarchism, a philosophy of which he was possibly the leading exponent. The precipitating event that led Kropotkin to embrace anarchism was the publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species in 1859.
Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism. Iran, Israel and the west: some home truths - The Drum Opinion. Find More Stories Iran, Israel and the west: some home truths Michael Brull In the West, there is a common story about Iranian relations with Israel and the West. It goes like this: Iran is ruled by an unpredictable, terrorist supporting lunatic, whose aggressive rhetoric to Israel rightly makes it concerned for its safety. Israelis have been influenced by their history, particularly the most obvious recent traumas. Appallingly, Iran has denied the Holocaust, and sought to use it as a weapon for cheap political gains.
Not every single part of this story is false. The Shah Though Obama declined to apologise for it, he has admitted that "the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government". Mark Curtis, who has examined the relevant British archives, uncovered a revealing picture. The British considered direct military intervention in response to the nationalisation. The coup was carried out by the UK and US together, and was a success. Hysteria x. The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to Read | Michael Hastings.
Derailing for Dummies. Far East Blog » Egypt’s Ongoing Uprising. The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell - 1/19. TVOntario: Men, Maleness, and Equality. Part 1 of 5. Activism related. News. Canada News: Mallick: Fake Sun TV segment has mocked our democracy. When Stephen Harper’s government wants a happy clap-clap Canadian moment on Sun News, it goes the Full North Korean. Yes, six of the “new Canadians” attending a “reaffirmation” ceremony for Citizenship Week in the Sun studios last fall turn out not to have been recently minted citizens after all. As The Canadian Press’ Jennifer Ditchburn has reported, they were actually federal bureaucrats told to smile and wave the damn flag like they meant it. The thing looked like a school play with grown-ups. Sad frightened grown-ups. According to CP, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s office had asked Sun News to do a soft news segment, at the network’s studio, on new citizens taking the oath.
But journalists and government never get together and fake stuff. As it happens, a day later the CBC ran an hour-long actual citizenship ceremony for 75 new Canadians. According to CP, Immigration started calling around for new Canadians to reaffirm, but they were all too busy working. If You See Something, Film Something (Recording The Police is a Dangerous but Necessary Thing to Do)