An Equal Conversation

It’s unlikely that many women in “third-world” countries have the chance to take a women’s studies course and the Tulane women’s studies department seems dominated by white girls (correct me if I’m wrong). Reflecting upon our assigned readings this semester, few (if any?) failed to discuss the perspectives and lives of third world women. There [...]

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Final Thoughts

I was not sure of what to write for this blog as I am midway through finals and my brain is a little fried. However, as I studied social theory last night, I could not stop thinking about our activism in relation to Goffman’s ideas on distance. He basically said that we give something more [...]

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Here’s the working link to the movie!!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeAnx-IQtWQ

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NYTimes Article: Is Rape Serious?

My friend showed me this article and I thought it would be interesting to pass on to you all…It is a little disconcerting to say the least.   http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/opinion/30kristof.html?_r=1

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Covering the Rape at Tulane

I made this comment in class a while back, but it’s still something I’m frustrated about.  We did a great deal of chatting about blaming the victim in rape cases in general, and also the recent rapes at Tulane in particular.  I posted some links below on the coverage of the rapes around Tulane.  As [...]

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Creep Alert at Bruno’s

Last night, as Mary Louise and I were attempting to go out for an innocent, fun, last day of school celebration, we ended up having an extremely awkward and very offensive encounter with some older gentlemen at Bruno’s. When walking back from the bathroom, we were stopped by two older men. I’m going to guess they were [...]

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Metaphors and Alienation

I was recently in the situation where a guy started talking about basketball in regards to our relationship.  He kept throwing out phrases like “full court press”, “half court”, and “the half a ball is in your half of the court”.  I was understandably confused.  I finally had to ask him to just stop using [...]

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Camille Paglia- It’s a Jungle Out There

This is long. Judging by the direction this class has taken, I think many of you will strongly disagree with many of the things Camille Paglia says in her essay (one of many) “It’s a Jungle Out There.” However, perhaps as devil’s advocate or perhaps due to personal experience, I wanted to share some of [...]

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Don’t Be a Douchebag

Hey guys, this is going to be a quick post since we’ve already discussed these signs in class, but the don’t be a douchebag signs have infiltrated facebook! I saw this posted last night- since I’m sure the link itself won’t work for everyone, I inserted the picture to the right. The facebook caption reads: [...]

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Craigslist

We have yet to discuss the recent Craigslist murder and I have to say it has really frightened me. I feel like one can draw a couple similarities between this story and our discussion about rape. First of all, it seems as if this woman, the victim, was almost hunted. For those who have not [...]

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