In this recent season of Desperate Housewives, there has been an addition to the cast, Vanessa Williams. After Williams’ axe on Ugly Betty, she quickly came into another on-going job, and from what I’ve seen, she fits. I don’t watch the show very often, I snag a view or two if my roommates are watching […]
Read More Desperate Are We?I must tell you, if you run into me and piss me off, I am mad because of what you did not because I am a feminist. Let me explain because this is unclear. I had close friends over one night recently. At one point of the night, I was outside with two friends, one […]
Read More Mythbusting Monday: If A Feminist Is Ticked Off, It’s Always Because Someone Offended Their Feminist BeliefsThis video is HYSTERICAL!!! Animated video on a female student wanting a recommendation letter from one of her professors for graduate school. The professor has some choice comments… http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7451115/?ref=nf
Read More Want to be a Professor in the Social Sciences?Why? Give me whatever you got. I am curious, I have my thoughts.
Read More Actually respond this time: Why do you think Introduction to Women’s Studies is not offered as a Gen Ed course?As I got a glimpse of my secret indulgence, The View, one hot topic was on the Glee photos in the men’s magazine GQ. http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201011/glee-photos-rachel-quinn-finn#slide=1 Of course the actresses Dianna Agron, “Quinn” and Lea Michelle, “Rachel,” would be overly sexualized seeing how it is a heterosexual man’s magazine. But what do you think? I don’t […]
Read More Glee GQ: What do you think?Patriarchy perpetuates the sexual exploitation of women in all areas of society, specifically in the institutions of pornography, prostitution, and sex trafficking. These patriarchal driven institutions coincide with one another and consequentially create the sex wars. Continuous debates of solutions to end the dehumanizing, devaluing, violence against women occur between feminist approaches, within nation-states, and […]
Read More The Sex WarsAs I text messaged my girlfriends today asking if they had an iron, each replied with, “No, I use my hair straightener.” Each one of them. I did not know this creative practice, to use your hair straightener to iron, it is as creative (well, besides the burns to the face) when women once used […]
Read More Hair Straighteners & Africana SymposiumToday was my third visit to the Chevrolet dealership to fix the steering in my car. After waiting for an hour, the man comes out and says, “They sent us the wrong part. Your gonna have to come back.” A fury built up inside me, I was tired of claiming Chevrolet as my second home. […]
Read More A Submissive TemperThis is a video I found on my friend’s facebook page. This video is of Gianna Jessen who is speaking at Queen’s Hall, Parliament House in Victoria, Australia on her surviving abortion. Her biological father and mother were 17 years old when they decided to undergo an abortion. Jessen speaks of her faith in Jesus […]
Read More The CompromisePatriarchy, a word, a symbol that frequently passes one’s mind and ears. Its traditional patterns and values, its history, and its normality provides us with a belief that patriarchy has always existed. And today, where are we, where are women in patriarchy’s lifespan? I’m sitting on my computer with a shot of vodka to the left […]
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