BDSM & Feminism: The Two Can Coexist — Lachrista Greco. Things got intense.
Many of the comments were from women who view BDSM as inherently anti-feminist. Martin.pdf. Germany to become first European state to allow ‘third gender’ birth certificates. The Gender Spectrum. Printer-friendly version.
Pornography and the Commodification of Sexual Desire. Peter Prevos, 3 August 2006.
In the first essay about pornography in contemporary society, it was argued that pornography has a special status within society, as reflected in the design of the now defunct Insight Adult Books in Bendigo. The myth of “opting out” Earlier today I wrote a popular series of tweets on the cost of motherhood in America, inspired by the recent New York Times article on moms who “opted out”.
You can follow me on twitter at @sarahkendzior. This is what I wrote: Here is what it is like to be a mother in the post-employment economy. The Banal, Insidious Sexism of Smurfette - Philip Cohen. In The Smurfs 2, men are identified by their abilities, while women are known for their femininity.
In The Smurfs 2, there are a lot of Smurfs. And they all have names based on their unique qualities. According to the cast list, the male ones are Papa, Grouchy, Clumsy, Vanity, Narrator, Brainy, Handy, Gutsy, Hefty, Panicky, Farmer, Greedy, Party Planner, Jokey, Smooth, Baker, Passive-Aggressive, Clueless, Social, and Crazy. And the female one is Smurfette--because being female is enough for her. Funny how gender never came up during Bernanke’s nomination. Or Greenspan’s. Or Volcker’s.
When I wrote my article on the subtle, sexist whispering campaign against Janet Yellen, my example of a rare not-so-subtle sexist comment came from Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve.
Asked about Yellen on CNBC, he worried that the pick would be "driven by gender," even as he allowed that she was "extremely capable. " Janet Yellen, a member of the half of the population that has a gender. (Federal Reserve/Flickr) Fisher's camp feels there's context that I didn't capture in Fisher's quote. Is Gender-Flipping The Most Important Meme Ever? There’s an old analogy about boiling a frog alive.
If you drop poor Froggy into a pot full of hot water he’ll jump right out again, the story goes; but start with cool water and heat it slowly, and the temperature will rise so gradually that he won’t notice until it’s too late. He got used to 29 degrees, and so didn’t register when it turned into 30 degrees; he got used to 30, and then it was 31, and so on.
(This is not science, by the way. Do not try to boil any frogs to make a point.) Why Women Live Longer - Philip Cohen. It isn't natural—lower rates of smoking, childbirth, and access to modern healthcare all play a part.
Salustiano Sanchez-Blazquez became the world’s oldest man last month, at age 112, the Associated Press reported last week. But the oldest woman is 115. As in most sports, survival statistics are sex segregated to give the weaker sex a chance at being number one — 87 percent of a (Wikipedia’s) list of the oldest people since 1955 are women. There are many causes of women’s longevity, some apparently biological (such as their more resilient immune systems) and some more man-made (such as lower rates of accidental, homicidal, or suicidal death).
But the overall survival advantage is an outcome of social dynamics. In the United States, women’s advantage in life expectancy at birth is just less than five years, but it was almost eight years in the 1970s. The global advantage Smoking is a major factor globally, and many countries could be going through what the U.S. did in the last century. Girls. Stemming the Domestic Abuse Epidemic - Debra Houry. Early intervention and treatment can be effective.
Ariel Castro pled guilty to 900 counts of kidnapping and rape on Friday and accepted a sentence of life without parole. Although he finally admitted to his crimes, we are left wondering what could have possibly led to this extreme violence against women. One clue is that Castro had a record of domestic violence arrests.
Breaking the Relationship Barrier. Jackson Katz: Memo to Media: Manhood, Not Guns or Mental Illness, Should Be Central in Newtown Shooting. Many of us whose work touches on the subject of masculinity and violence have long been frustrated by the failure of mainstream media -- and much of progressive media and the blogosphere as well -- to confront the gender issues at the heart of so many violent rampages like the one on December 14 in Connecticut.
Sexism and the Single Murderess. Men Don't Recognize 'Benevolent' Sexism: Study. Do most people recognize sexism in their daily lives? And what does it take to get them to shake their sexist beliefs? In a recent study titled "Seeing the Unseen" psychologists Janet Swim of Pennsylvania State University and Julia Becker of Philipps University Marburg, Germany, set out to answer these questions. Over the course of three separate, seven-day-long trials, Swim and Becker asked 120 college undergraduates (82 women and 38 men, ranging from 18 to 26 years old, some from the U.S., some from Germany) to record in a journal sexist comments they encountered on a daily basis. According to Swim, she and Becker hoped to determine whether forcing people to pay attention to less obvious forms of sexism could decrease their endorsement of sexist beliefs. During the trials, subjects were instructed to note instances of sexist behavior toward women, ranging from unwanted sexual attention to blatantly sexist jokes and derogatory comments.
Why Are Women Paid Less? - Jordan Weissmann. Discrimination, the careers women choose, and the burdens of motherhood could all play a role, says a Cornell economist. Women's rights activist Lilly Ledbetter speaks at the Democratic National Convention. (Reuters) At last night's presidential debate, audience member Katherine Fenton got up and asked how the candidates planned to fix the fact that women make "only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn. " It's a familiar stat that, as some conservatives argued today, is also a bit misleading. When you compare men and women who work similar hours in similar jobs, the gap shrinks significantly.
But it doesn't disappear. Tell me the story of how the male-female pay gap has changed over the past few decades. Way back in the 1950s, women earned around 60 percent on average of what men earned when working year-round full time. So overall, women who work full time make 77 cents for every dollar men make. Right.