From Making Meaning of Relationships: Young Women's Experiences and Understandings of Dating Violence by Donna Chung (2007, Violence Against Women 13:12):

The findings suggest there are two related and noteworthy differences between the current generation of young women and the previous generations. First, young women now expect and feel pressure ( Read more... )

A couple of serious links for tonight:

Jean Kilbourne's Killing Us Softly 3 about images of women in advertising - it's worth watching even if there are no groundbreaking points that are being made in there, and there's some funny ( Read more... )

Before I get started on this little rant, something I did in preparation for my lecture:

Really, heterosexuality manifests itself at school? No. Never, ever ( Read more... )

Reading about heterosex and feeling a little down at how male hegemony is just so closely intertwined with the way we see sex - it's like even when we think we're in an egalitarian relationship where the woman is treated the same as the man, our accounts of sex reveal systemic inequalities. :/ I find myself wondering if it's possible to have non- ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to share that link - a must-read for guys, but it's a very useful read for gals, too.

Don't be That Guy.

I've mentioned Martin Firrell before for his HERO project (which he did with Nathan Fillion). You can see that project if you click the following links: part 1 and part 2.

I ended up on his Myspace today, and if you have a Myspace account, check out his gallery. Some of these quotes are very powerful, and I love how he projects them onto buildings ( Read more... )

H E R O part 2.

This is the second part of Martin Firrell's project, "Hero: the future of gods, icons and heroes" - this is input from people all over, and some of those quotes are very powerful. It's an amazing project, and I can't wait to see more of it.

We need new heroes.

Like we had any doubt that our Big Damn Captain was one.

And just when I thought I wouldn't want my son circumsied, apparently circumcision reduces the risk to be infected by AIDS. (An article on the topic in French hereThe article from National Geographic is better since it provides more details on why : "The reason for the increased risk of infection, experts say, is because the foreskin of the penis ( Read more... )

I ended up never saying a word about the presentation on gender and work I did with littlegothsin last week for our UK Civilization class. It went really well, and people asked questions afterwards. Made me so happy people actually had things to say - and it was sort of funny because afterwards Tara (one of the girls who'd asked a question) came up to me and ( Read more... )