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. 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. 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. " 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.
In a phone interview with AlterNet from his home in New York's Hudson Valley -- situated within earshot of the mortars and howitzers at West Point Military Academy's artillery range -- Horgan dispelled multiple myths about the impetus for war, the combination of which, he believes, sustains the institution of war despite rational thought and an overwhelming human aversion to killing. 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. They came to pay their respects to a man, Petr Kropotkin, and his philosophy, anarchism. Some 90 years later few know of Kropotkin. 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. 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 British embassy in Tehran soon settled on a "non-communist coup d'état preferably in the name of the Shah", which it understood "would mean an authoritarian regime". Iran-Iraq War. The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to Read.
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)