Happy International Women’s Day! Or, in the blogosphere, Blog Against Sexism Day. There are some really great posts out there, most of which are documented at the link above. The idea is to, on this day, write about sexism on your blog. So for mine, small and symbolic though it is, I thought it appropriate [...]
(Komen billboard for breast cancer awareness – click for closeup) You’d think it would be hard to say bad things about Komen, who engineered the “Race For the Cure” breast cancer campaign. I was criticized once in a smoky bar (by a bartender with a sister with breast cancer) at the mere suggestion of the [...]
Several bloggers are commenting on this article in the Times fashion series, and today is the obvious day to talk about it. The piece discusses sociologist Adie Nelson’s study, The Pink Dragon Is Female: Halloween Costumes and Gender Markers (read the abstract). Nelson finds in a content analysis of nearly 500 children’s costumes, that they [...]
Prologue. We’ve got a really old CD player. The kind that doesn’t play burned cd’s from Musicmatch jukebox. And since we are planning a long road trip on Tuesday, I’m burning some music. Only I can’t get the disks to play in said old player. I walked out to the car to get the diskman [...]
First he deflects serious questions at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Merkel, something he never did with Blair. Then he gives her a back rub. I could take this opportunity to discuss “gender dynamics in international politics.” However I would rather say (insert subject heading here).
This one needs your comment. My friend Kim is teaching Mass Media and Popular Culture this summer, and wants to use music to teach sociology. The specific task is to identify both positive and negative images (physical yes, but also social images) of men and women through song. I’m not a music guy, so I [...]
