All hail HBO’s Game of Thrones!!!!! If you didn’t tune in on Sunday night, you should probably re-evaluate your life choices. According to Entertainment Weekly, the fourth-season premiere of the fantasy delivered the show’s biggest audience yet: 6.6 million viewers. That makes Sunday’s Thrones HBO’s most-watched program since The Sopranos’ series finale in 2007. In the season premiere, we […]
Read More ALL HAIL Game of Thrones!Although these two Democratic senators are clear that sexual assault needs to stop, they weren’t always so friendly with each other on how to stop it. Democrat Gillibrand and Democrat McCaskill both proposed bills to end sexual assault in the military, a fierce battle that ended with McCaskill’s bill being passed. Now, the two women […]
Read More Quick Hit: Gillibrand and McCaskill- No more college sexual assault!NASCAR, a very popular sport among today’s American men and women, is not something I have ever really watched or paid attention to until recently. I started talking to this guy and he is an avid racecar driver and loves watching the race every Sunday. We turned out to be better friends than anything else […]
Read More Patrick vs Petty: gender issues in NASCARBestlittlelion92 and Ladychaotica21 found this article, showing that teenagers are changing the ideas of feminism, by simply proving they want to be part of it! Check out this link for more details. Truequeerlatte found this article defending HBCUs from claims that they are more homophobic than PWIs. Cpowell92 is shocked by this overt display of […]
Read More Sunday Night SpotlightHello Readers! This week, I wanted to talk about something interesting that hits a little closer to home. The JMU home that is. I was looking through articles on The Breeze’s website and came across a headline that read “Faculty Salaries, Same-sex partner benefits discussed.” Immediately, that grabbed my attention and I became excited that […]
Read More President Alger speaks on same-sex benefits for JMU facultyA recent CNN article was published about a woman with Down syndrome, we will call her Jane, who was raped three times by a man in her own home. There are many problems with the following story. How judges handle rape cases, what men constitute as rape, and how cases involving people with disabilities are handled in […]
Read More A Sad Truth About Rape and Down SyndromeI was browsing through Buzzfeed when I stumbled upon this article that has seemed to have gone viral. It explores what happens when the women featured in advertisements are replaced with men. The YouTube video that accompanies the article is even more enlightening. The punchline at the end of the YouTube video reads: “Seeing men like this […]
Read More Quick Hit: Role Reversal? Yes, Please!Alright, what in the starry-eyed f**k is this? I’ve got a bone to pick with Eliana Dockterman, the author of an article posted on TIME about the “The Duke Porn Star Isn’t as Empowered as She Claims.” If I have ever heard more biased writing from TIME, then at least they did a better job […]
Read More A Bone to Pick.I firmly believe in the truth and validity of everyone’s experience. Perception constitutes reality. That is why I have chosen to discuss this issue. I am fully aware of the #MinoritiesAtMadison movement, and I am also aware of the article that my fellow blogger, truequeerlatte, has written for ShoutOut. Let me be clear: It is […]
Read More Diversity at JMU: IT EXISTSGendercide: the systematic killing of members of a specific sex. While the United States and North America still have gender issues, this inhumane phenomenon is one aspect of gender inequality we do not face on a daily, monthly, and yearly basis. This widespread practice of killing or aborting females, strictly on the premise that the […]
Read More Gendercide: An issue all of us should be aware of.
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