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The thing is, people want rules because rules make it easier not to think. But life doesn’t have rules, it just has an endless series of awkward moments we navigate as best we can. Thinking isn’t optional, it’s the heart and soul of ethical action.
Fuck Theory (fucktheory.tumblr.com)
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love that Laurel looks shocked by the kiss.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
Audre Lorde (via thatsarcastictoneyouhate)
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Black women’s scholarship does not parade as universal, but rather it emanates from a point of acute authenticity and invites others to participate in a similar, equally authentic, process. While traditional White men’s scholarship presumes to have a monopoly on content as well as method, Black women’s scholarship underscores the fallacy and pomposity of such a presumption. Ironically, universality emerges not from the imposition of sameness and the enforced proclamation that “we’re all just human underneath it all,�� but from the careful and respectful acknowledgment that both individuals and groups have experiences that generate difference in both vision and concern and the recognition that these differences can contribute to the robustness and optimal functioning of the human race as a whole.
Laylie Philips - “Who’s Schooling Who? Black Women and the Bringing of the Everyday into Academe” (via ofmyreverberations)
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Girls on Halloween
By Griffin Gold
Before the age of sixteen, if someone asked me what Halloween was, I would have answered that is a holiday to dress up in a funny costume, go trick or treating, and eat a lot of candy. If you asked me that same question today I would answer that it is a day where girls dress up as sexy or slutty as possible. Some part of me likes the idea that for one day a year girls wear (or in most cases not wearing) sexy/revealing clothing. Put the other part of me thinks it is terrible that girls think it is fun to dress up like this. It gives girls a negative image in my point of view. If you read my earlier post about how frat men treat women as objects, the suggestive costumes on Halloween make it seem that college girls are asking for it from these promiscuous men.
Whenever I think of girls on Halloween, the movie Mean Girl always pops up in my mind. In this movie, the “popular” girls dress up very sexy and all of the guys are whistling at them while these popular girls love the attention. Lindsay Lohan’s character, who is not as popular, dresses up in a scary costume and when she shows up to a party that night she is given many dirty looks. Why is someone given dirty looks for not dressing slutty? This culture is true in our society where you are labeled as weird or a loser for not wearing sexy clothing on Halloween. I wish it could go back to the days of elementary school where we would be excited to see who had the funniest/scariest costume and then later run around from a sugar high.
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Why T Swift Isn't Exactly America's Sweetheart
By: Jaya Chinnaya
Over Thanksgiving break, my 12 year old cousin expressed her love for the country/pop star Taylor Swift, showing us all her albums on her iTunes and bragging about the concert ticket she snagged for her “Red” tour. I have always had a small issue with Swift’s songs, as they all seem to focus on one thing: boys. My cousin argued with me when I said that her songs are only relatable in a very superficial, on-the-surface manner and that Swift only talks about her life in respect to relationships with boys. She responded by asking, “well what else am I supposed to care about”?
Taylor Swift is undeniably an accomplished singer/songwriter. She has won multiple Grammys, her album “Fearless” was named album of the year in 2010, and was named Billboard’s Woman of the Year in 2011. But I believe that her career has been based off of being safe with the content of her songs, with a serious a lack of depth to her lyrics. They all contain similar elements or emotions, either anger or happiness or sorrow as a consequence of falling for a boy, and the message to girls like my younger cousin is that that is the extent of what matters to a teen girl. Artists like P!nk, with her song “Stupid Girl”, push young girls to value their minds and individual drive rather than focusing on love. Swift’s song always reference being an outsider but in the perspective of an innocent straight white girl. What about the LGBT community? I find Swift’s ideas around traditional opposite sex relationships and fairytale endings (she has a song called “Today Was A Fairytale” for crying out loud) to be counterproductive to feminism.
Citation: http://www.people.com/people/taylor_swift/biography/0,,,00.html
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Breast-feeding Mom on cover of Time Magazine receives criticism
By Griffin Gold
In May of 2012, Jamie Lynne Grumet, was on the cover of Time Magazine breast-feeding her three year old. Since this issue came out it has started a huge debate on “attachment parenting.” Most parents stop breast feeding after age one, but Grumet thinks that it should be up to the parents discretion of how long she wants to breast feed her child for. Grumet said she was breast fed by her mother until age six. In the magazine Grumet says, “People have to realize this is biologically normal. The more people see it, the more it'll become normal in our culture. That's what I'm hoping. I want people to see it" (CBSNews.com)
I agree with Grumet. I think mothers know what is best for their child. Her method might be a little unorthodox, but I still applaud her for appearing on the cover of a popular magazine to help prove her point. Grumet told Time Magazine that several strangers, who see her nursing her son, have come up to her and threatened to call social services on her or even told Grumet that it’s child molestation. I can only imagine that this criticism has increased since the article hit newsstands. One person tweeted about Grumet’s parenting method, "Even a cow knows when to wean their child." Angry tweeters like this one can hurt the morale of Grumet and possibly make her doubt herself as a parent. I hope the majority of the people that read this article stand by Grumet and embrace her method of breast-feeding.
Just like women have the right on whether or not they want to have an abortion, people should not criticize women for how they are breast-feeding their child.
Citation: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57432374/time-magazine-cover-of-breastfeeding-mom-sparks-intense-debate-on-attachment-parenting/
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Movies like Old School make it seem that having sex with a different girl every night fun.
Courtesy of photo goes to thecampuscompanion.com
#oldschool #fratlife
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Fraternities treating women like objects
By Griffin Gold
This my first year living in a fraternity house and with all of that testosterone in one place you can imagine a lot of derogatory things are said about one another. Besides kidding around with each other, they also make many negative comments about women. They treat women like objects. Things are said like “Let’s fuck some bitches tonight,” “I got with like 15 girls this semester, I’m the man,” “Yo, this girl is such a slut.” The sad thing is that this is the norm in all frat houses not only at Maryland, but across the country. Websites like Total Frat Move (TFM) are dedicated for college kids to share their crazy stories with girls.
I think by far the worst thing that college guys do is the way they use women as competition. Guys compete against their friends to see who can get with more girls, who can get with the hottest girl, and even who can get with a freshman first. This competition for girls is absolutely disgusting and I wish it would stop, but I do not see that happening anytime soon. If you look below this post you will see a video posted by Jim Sullivan where students from a fraternity at Yale are yelling “No means Yes! Yes means anal!” As a male I am disgusted to see this and I hope it ends in the future because this attitude should not be tolerated. I want to apologize for all the men who say these disgusting about women on a daily basis.
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Media Bisexual Erasure Persists Today
by Jim Sullivan
When Fox’s House ended in 2012, it left its sole bisexual character in a relationship with a member of the same sex, having dated both genders as elements of multiple plotlines. Dr. Remy “Thirteen” Hadley, portrayed by Olivia Wilde, is subtly introduced as bisexual through Dr. Gregory House (portrayed by Hugh Laurie) jokingly asking, “You do it both ways, right?” as a double entendre to a medical procedure.
Positive portrayals of bisexuality in television shows like House as a legitimate, accepted sexuality are rare. In the seminal television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, teenage witch Willow Rosenberg is seen dating both genders, but jumps from straight to lesbian without acknowledging the concept of bisexuality (despite a longstanding heterosexual crush fueled by clear romantic and sexual attraction). The hedonistic, Oscar Wilde-inspired Queer as Folk soon followed, portraying the most morally transgressive character of the show, Brian Kinney, telling a “lesbian” character who has engaged in passionate, straight sex that she can’t like both male and female parts.
In The L Word, the first mainstream show to primarily feature lesbians, many of the main characters have trysts with men (Alice, Jenny, Tina, Dylan, Phyllis); only one (Alice) ever consistently identifies as bisexual, but even she eventually identifies as lesbian. One of its male characters, Angus Partridge, is sometimes identified as bisexual in show descriptions, but the idea or confirmation is never clearly addressed on the show.
These examples don’t reflect the reality of millions of bisexual men and women, but they have been pervasive since modern pop culture began including LGBT themes. Brokeback Mountain was advertised as “the gay cowboy movie,” not “the bisexual country romp,” despite both main characters being married and mutually informing the other they weren’t gay. As often happens, the ‘L’ and ‘G’ of LGBT overshadow all else to paint a false depiction of America as either “straight, gay, or lying.”
She may play into lesbian fantasies and a highly sexualized image of bisexuals, but Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley is a highly complex, compelling character oft-portrayed with beauty and poignancy by Olivia Wilde
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