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
https://goo.gl/images/9AAEbc So, I learned about this meme and others like it when I took Sociology of Deviant Behavior in undergrad with Kathy Jones. I find this meme appalling. I don’t see how rape is funny. The version of the meme I selected to share was more appropriate to share on a public space than most … Read more
The American singer-songwriter put her experiences of sexual assault into a poem, performing it at the New York Women’s March. Titled “A Story Like Mine”, the poem gives accounts of a friend’s rape and Halsey’s own experiences of childhood abuse, being pressured into sex by a boyfriend, performing through a miscarriage and how fame has not … Read more
With regard to the topics that we are discussing in class, I find this image very appropriate to describe what happens with cultural differences and the stereotypes that are created around them. I think the point here is to respect cultural differences and understand that conceptions of freedom are different in each culture and therefore … Read more
Of course the straight male who cat calls for a living would be the first person to say that a gay male better not cat call him. It is the same concept. Cat calling is offensive and inappropriate, but of course when the target is placed on the offender it is “gross”. When the tables … Read more
We have been discussing this issue in class and this story recently came out from Michigan. Even though we have a law making this practice illegal, it persists. More than half a million US girls are at risk. How should we respond to this? https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/fgm-among-us-united-states/
I thought this was a interesting meme. As a society, colors are assigned to girls and boys. But why? Where did this idea come from? I once heard that in the past it was the opposite. Blue was for girls and pink was for boys. As I got older I noticed that if men were … Read more
http://gender.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/motherhoodpenalty.pdf Attached is a link to a research study published in 2007 in the American Journal of Sociology. The study looks at some already established data about the inequities women face in the workplace and seeks to nail down a why. Previous data has already established that women are statistically paid less than men … Read more
Recently I discovered the song Gatekeeper by Jessie Reyez. My friend immediately gave me the background on the song and I was so inspired. In the song, Jessie tells the story of the night when a “big producer” offered her a deal with the condition that she repay him with sex. With the music and … Read more
This was a meme shared on social media during International Women’s Day. Feminism was not a topic thoroughly spoken about throughout my undergraduate degree and I had only somewhat been familiar with it before then. It wasn’t until reading an article in one of my intro classes last semester (my first semester of graduate school) … Read more