For those who do NOT know, James Madison University has a ratio of 60% to 40% of females to males within it’s student population. When I first heard about JMU, and was interested in possibly attending it, I had not even noticed this statistic because I had ruled it out as minuscule. HOWEVER! My opinion […]
Read More Constant stares, glares, and judgementApart from this above image I wasn’t really explicitly told what it meant to be a man in my childhood. You hear of the sex talk, but I don’t remember my dad sitting me down one day and telling me the birds and bees of manhood. So when I was sent a link to an […]
Read More Failure of Upbrining: Hegemonic/Toxic MasculinityEnvy. Sex. Dirt. Vulnerability. Four words that Laura Kipnis uses to analyze the female condition. Overall she talks about the struggle women face with balancing feminism and femininity. Feminism being the mentality of standing up for yourself and claiming your right to equality; refusing to be called sweetheart or honey. Femininity being the defining factor […]
Read More The Female ThingA friend of mine recently introduced me to the concept of “crab mentality.” This concept refers to a common occurrence in buckets of crabs: if one crab attempts to escape from a bucket of live crabs, the other crabs will pull it back down, rather than allowing it to get free. Often, the crabs will wait until […]
Read More Crab Mentality: How women hold each other backI thought the answer to this statement was obvious, but the national media’s handling of the Steubenville rape case has proved me wrong. I don’t want to hear one more word about how the two rapists lives have been ruined or the football careers they missed out on. What about the victim? How has her life and the lives […]
Read More Why Getting Raped Is Worse Than Missing Football PracticeToni Morrison’s Song of Solomon is a story of heritage, pride, shame and discovery. Set in the 1960s in the era of the Civil Rights movement, Song of Solomon follows two African American families as they make their way toward the American Dream. The first family consists of a woman named Pilot, her daughter Reba, […]
Read More Song of Solomon and Our Standards of BeautyThis week, I wanted to write about a movie that has been adapted from a young adult book series. The film is a major phenomenon, and debuted to large, passionate audiences. Of course, central to the plot is a love triangle. I think that by now, most people have guessed what I’m talking about…
Read More The Feminist Lens: Movie ReviewsI know there are a lot of commercials out there that are very stereotypical about womens’ roles in society. Such commercials are cleaning products or cooking products for stay at home moms and makeup commercials about women’s self conscience about their aging beauty. But I think its important to highlight those commercials that are out […]
Read More Breaking the female commercial moldMy friends and I were gathered around dinner the other night talking about our ideal man. Some characteristics that were thrown out were generous, domesticated, tall, and intelligent. We talked about how we want our men to be nerdy, but athletic, but a good father and also a good cook. It made me think, when […]
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