December 2009
31 posts
Ella se lamenta
Me hubiera gustado ser varón para poseerte Para darnos trompadas en señal de ternura y de fidelidad Para ponerme las botas de capataz y cabalgarte desnudo Para amenazarle con un revólver Pero yo Una mujer Una simple mujer ¿Qué puede hacer de memorable en la prosecución de un amor?
Raúl Gómez Jattin
“The self says to the ego, “Feel pain here!” Then the ego
suffers and thinks how...”
– (Nietzsche 1978, 35)
Gender Advertisements
paleolitiquero:
sexismandthecity:
Based on his coding system, Goffman recognized seven phenomena that were prevalent in his research: 1. Overwhelmingly a woman is taller than a man only when the man is her social inferior; 2. A woman’s hands are seen just barely touching, holding, or caressing – never grasping, manipulating, or shaping; 3. When a photograph of men and women illustrates an...
Cómo juzgar un libro por su cubierta. →
The book is full of images in which the features stereotypically associated with Northern and Western Europeans, or the mythical Aryan race, are associated with sincerity, honestly, a work ethic, and every other positive character trait, whereas large and especially hooked noses and small, hooded, or almond-shaped eyes were indications of negative traits.
Ten types of commenter, of which the last are the...
The commenter who has not read the post properly, decides they know what it says anyway, and fires off a series of disgusted observations.
Commenter who applies the most uncharitable possible interpretation to the post, and goes straight into rant mode.
The commenter who takes the opportunity to make some sarcastic remarks highlighting his (99% of cases are male) own superior...
Replication of a Classic Work Examining Women,...
paleolitiquero:
sexismandthecity:
Have thirty years of feminism and cultural enlightenment changed magazine advertisements?
Do women represent themselves in their personal yet publically available Facebook photographs as independent, strong, and competent, or are they the infantile, dependent, and care-needing women of Goffman’s collection?
In 1979, Erving Goffman published Gender...
“No tenemos elección, sólo reelección.”
– Proverbio popular colombiano (via bluelephant)
¿Qué fue de la vida de Caster Semenya? →
“I know what Caster has got,” her aunt Johanna Lamola told the Times. “I’ve changed her nappies.” Semenya’s father said, “I don’t even know how they do this gender testing. I don’t know what a chromosome is. This is all very painful for us—we live by simple rules.” Semenya did not cheat. She has not been evasive. It is very common for élite female athletes, who exert themselves to their physical...
