This is the new Seth Rogan movie about date rape… a comedy, I just thought it would be interesting to have a discussion about the idea of actually making fun of date rape (I’m shocked myself) I can’t quite justify it right now… What do you all think? This was posted in the blog (http://streetknowledge.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/uncensored-observe-and-report-date-rape-scene-sparks-outrage-video/) [...]
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Observe and Report
Posted in feminism, media, theory, tagged comedy, date rape, media, Observe and Report, Seth Rogan on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Law and Order SVU
Posted in media, theory, tagged Detective Benson, Detective Stabler, Law and Order, media, pornography, rape, sharon marcus on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For as long as I can remember I have been a Law and Order buff. When ever theres nothing to do and a TV is staring back at me from the couch I know that there is some form of Law and Order on. Whether its Law and Order, Law and Order CI or Law [...]
What is normal anyway?
Posted in activism, feminism, theory, tagged acceptance, Audre Lorde, difference, equality, Sister Outsider on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What is considered “normal” within any given society? Within Audre Lorde’s essay Age, Race, Class, and Sex, she explains how one view of the world is through eyes of what should happen and what someone should look like. By doing this they create this assumption of normality as the ideal and everything else as [...]
What Happened to me Last Night
Posted in activism, theory, tagged NOPD, rape, tulane on May 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So…At 3 a.m. last night, I was coming in from work. I parked my car in the spot directly in front of my house- I’d say about ten feet from the front door. My girlfriend and I got out of the car and began to walk towards the front door. Out of the shadows (dramatic, [...]
The Borders of Rape
Posted in feminism, theory, tagged activism, Borders, Education, rape, tulane on March 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We’ve been reading in class how borders affect activism. In the recent reading “invisible women” a group of women rely on their borders to construct their activist identity. They are Latina women from El Paso who, for the sake of defining their group, call on their identities as Mexican American women. The author says that [...]
theorizing theory
Posted in theory, tagged definition, Kirstie McClure, the political, theory on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In my four years of college I continually heard the ubiquitous term theory. It has been utilized in many of my studies and course work and never have I tried to give it a distinct definition until it was assigned to me. The description I compiled has given me a better understanding of the term [...]
Reality Television: Our Political Expression
Posted in theory, tagged family, political, reality tv on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I often find myself arguing over the necessity of reality television. Is there really a need for the world to see Brett Michaels try to find the love of his life or see the world’s heaviest man get married to his girlfriend on national television? No, it probably isn’t necessary. However, I’ve come to the [...]
The Place of Theory in Change
Posted in feminism, theory, tagged Audre Lorde, Shulamith Firestone on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One question continues to be asked in my women’s studies classes: This theory is interesting, but what do we do now? How does the theorist want us to fix this problem? This issue generally arises when discussing the work of more utopian or abstract theorists, like Shulamith Firestone and Audre Lorde. We seem to be [...]
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