I saw this the other day and I couldn’t help posting on it. Well, correction: My boyfriend saw this the other day and pointed out how ridiculous it was to me. Yay! The grasshopper is learning. Here’s the gist of things: Police are starting to investigate whether or not it should be legal for an […]
Read More Booty Lounge: Don’t Tread on Us…ManSo I was visiting my brother this weekend in Blacksburg to get away from the homecoming madness here at JMU. We were sitting in his living room. He was telling me about all the work he had to do next week, and I mentioned how I’m blogging for ShoutOut this semester, and that I needed […]
Read More Women Make Good SandwichesWords like sissy, pansy, crybaby, wimp, and wuss are just a few of the words (and some of the nicer choices) we commonly see used when a boy or a man acts inappropriately. What I mean is, they’re words we use when a man acts ‘like a girl.’ Words like sissy tell young boys that […]
Read More Gendered Name Calling and the Solace I Found in FeminismWhen someone says that word “feminism” to me, it brings to mind many things: independence, gender and racial equality, bell hooks, freedom to work, college education for women, my mother, hope, women helping women, Jessica Valenti, sexuality, and many more things… To a lot of people, however, who don’t consider themselves feminist, “feminism” is just […]
Read More The Media Power of Girl Power