Another article I am choosing for my research paper is Morphological shifts in Southeast Asian Prostitution: The Long Twentieth Century. This article focuses on the history of prostitution and how it has contributed to the sex tourism that is seen in today in the region. The article first discusses traditional prostitution in the area. Tagliacozzo … Read more
Substantive Blog Post #4 Phyllis Schlafly’s “Positive” Freedom: Liberty, Liberation, and the Equal Rights Amendment In order to gather enough research for my final paper, I have decided to not only consider gender inequality in the Bible, but also the perpetuation of gender inequality in American political through the conservative use of the Biblical role … Read more
I saw a video of a CNN news casterer speaking about this judge in Canada who apparently spoke out during a rape case to this woman, that she should’ve just “kept your knees together.” The judge asked this 19 year old girl who was raped at a party on the bathroom sink, why she didn’t … Read more
As we talked about in class today, we focus a lot on society’s negative effects on women, but we seldom consider how men can be victims, too. Dr. Kimuna, in the Department of Sociology, is conducting research on men’s experiences of intimate partner violence in Kenya. I was curious about this issue in the U.S … Read more
A new law was just passed in Utah to allow women to get birth control from a pharmacy instead of having to see the doctor every time they needed a prescription. The patient still needs to check in with the doctor every two years, but she will no longer have to visit the doctor every … Read more
Cardi B, a female rapper, recently spoke out about the #metoo movement and its relation to hip hop. In this article she touched on video vixens being sexually harassed and shared her own experience. For those who do not know, video vixens are girls who appear in music videos. In society, video vixens are seen … Read more
Article After reading the chapter on Muslim women’s dress in our readings, I did a little digging to find some current events relating to the Muslim hijab. In this search, I stumbled across this article about Macy’s new hijab brand. As you can tell from the pictures, these hijabs are very trendy and fashionable. The … Read more
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/19/politics/trump-latest/index.html Recently Donald Trump has come out with his new idea to give opioid drug dealers the death penalty or prison for life in order to try to tackle the opioid epidemic in the United States. This seems strange considering he is a member of the Republican party which favors a smaller government, not a … Read more
This is a meme that came up when I googled “feminist meme”. This means that women who have triggers are associated with a negative view of what it means to be a feminist. Not only am I extremely hurt by this but shocked. Many women who as assaulted, or go through some sort of trauma … Read more
If you don’t remember these posts from social media, these was a backlash movement by MANY WOMEN against feminism. Personally I saw a lot of these on my facebook feed and even thinking about it makes me sick. Not only in today’s society are we fighting men thinking that women “asked for it” by … Read more