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French advertising companies are often criticised for using sexual images to sell everything from designer spectacles to sweetcorn. Now, for the first time, a controversy has erupted in France over the use of sexually suggestive posters as a deterrent.
A campaign to discourage young people from smoking shows male and female teenagers kneeling in front of a man, as if being forced to have oral sex. A cigarette takes the place of the man's sexual organ. The caption reads: "Smoking is to be a slave to tobacco."
The campaign, which was devised for a pressure group supporting the rights of non-smokers, has been attacked as "scandalous" and "potentially counter-productive" by feminist and pro-family campaigners.French advertising companies are often criticised for using sexual images to sell... more
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Ever thought why women have been outliving men across the Europe? Well, it is not just that men have not been seeking health care more readily, the main reason is their practice of smoking which is responsible for the gender gap in death rates in the continent, a new research states.Ever thought why women have been outliving men across the Europe? Well, it is not just... more
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Many women's organizations spend money courting corporate media, which rarely cares about our messages or missions. Meanwhile, our own dedicated media groups struggle.
There's room for doubt there, given the general state of women's independent media financing.
As the national project director of Media Equity Collaborative, a national initiative working out of rural New Mexico to encourage greater support of women's media, I have seen that for every step forward, we incur two steps back.
Two examples: One of our partnering organizations, Chica Luna, a holistic media training center for low-income women of color based in New York City, was unable to even keep operating their Web site. Third World Majority, a tech savvy media justice and training center in the Oakland, Calif., area, also shut down its Web site last year.
And while the recession has taken a toll on many media groups, it's been particularly heavy on groups by and for women of color.
The economy isn't the only culprit.
A central stumbling block is the way mainstream women's organizations and the media consultants who guide them seek to publicize their messages and their organized efforts through big, corporate media outlets.
These groups, along with women's funders and donors, almost entirely overlook the alternative women's media community as a voice for their messages. One major donor group for women, for instance, directed a million dollars to place more opinion pieces in mainstream newspapers. I scratch my head in amazement at this blind spot.
That's like relying on the American Medical Association and existing (Catholic) hospitals and other long-established health structures to provide abortions services.
We all know that's not viable. Instead we have built stand-alone clinics and health programs specifically aimed at addressing unmet reproductive health care needs.
What about our unmet media and information needs? Building a women's media movement and a sorely needed infrastructure is critical to the overall movement for girls' and women's rights.
Read the full article at Women's eNews http://www.womensenews.org/story/media-stories/110114/women-must-sustain-our-own-core-mediaMany women's organizations spend money courting corporate media, which rarely... more
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~~~~~~~~i married a pornographer , by Emily Southwood
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[ “This is an intellectual swindle that leads women to misjudge male sexuality, which they do at their own emotional and physical peril. Male desire is not a malleable entity that can be constructed through politics, language, or media. Sexuality is not neutral. A warring dynamic based on power and subjugation has always existed between men and women, and the egalitarian view of sex, with its utopian pretensions, offers little insight into the typical male psyche. Internet porn, on the other hand, shows us an unvarnished (albeit partial) view of male sexuality as an often dark force streaked with aggression” ]
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http://imarriedapornographer.com/2011/01/10/thoughts-on-hard-core/~~~~~~~~i married a pornographer , by Emily Southwood
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The new United Nations gender agency, known as U.N. Women, quietly opened on Jan. 3 without any publicity or announcements.
The superagency's midtown Manhattan headquarters remain unoccupied, said U.N. Women spokesperson Gretchen Luchsinger. Employees from the four U.N. gender agencies and offices that this new entity is uniting continue to work out of their own, scattered offices around the U.N. Secretariat building.
"Maybe because of the U.N. bureaucracy we have experienced a slow process to seeing U.N. Women become operational," said Margot Baruch, spokesperson for the Gender Equality Architecture Reform, a civil society coalition with offices in New Brunswick, N.J., that campaigned for U.N. Women's creation.
U.N. Women activity is likely to remain low-key until the public ceremonial launch on Feb. 24--pushed back from Jan. 20--at the U.N. Secretariat, according to Baruch. The evening event will coincide with the start of the annual month-long session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which typically brings in thousands of women's rights activists from around the world.
Read the full story at Women's eNews: http://www.womensenews.org/story/international-policyunited-nations/110112/un-women-superagency-opens-just-barelyThe new United Nations gender agency, known as U.N. Women, quietly opened on Jan. 3... more
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Christiana Garpeh listened attentively with her headphones as she put together her first radio piece of the day. She ignored the Beyonce song playing in the newsroom to focus on transcribing an interview.
The interview was with a woman from Pagos Island, a part of Monrovia cut off from the rest of the city by swamps. She was seeking donors for women's literacy classes and classes in soap making and tailoring.
Each working day Garpeh produces about two such stories on the needs of women for broadcast by Liberia Women Democracy Radio, housed in a two-story building in Congo Town on the outskirts of Monrovia, the nation's capital.
Across the hall that day in the on-air studio, two men hosted a talk show about reducing poverty. That day's theme: transportation and how women in particular, due to their caretaking burdens, need better access to markets and medical centers.
Next door in the production studio, Varnetta M. Johnson edited a weekly show on traditional women that explores different tribes' customs, such as weddings and greetings. Many Liberians are unaware of their traditions, she said, especially if their families moved to Monrovia and left the old ways behind.
Launched in August by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia Women Democracy Radio is the first station in the country focused on women's advancement.
Read the full story at Women's eNews: http://womensenews.org/story/media-stories/110111/liberian-radio-station-gives-women-the-controlsChristiana Garpeh listened attentively with her headphones as she put together her... more
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The prosecution of Jean-Pierre Bemba, which resumes Jan. 11 in The Hague, is expected to continue taking testimony about the sexual violence committed by his troops in the Central African Republic between 2002 and 2003.
The trial marks the first major prosecution of rape as a weapon of war and a fulfillment of years of international legal advocacy for female war victims.
Three of the four witnesses who testified in Bemba's trial between Nov. 22 and Dec. 6 recounted rapes by Bemba's Congolese troops.
"Witness 38" described watching a young girl get raped in front of her mother. "Witness 22" described getting gang raped by three soldiers while her family was held captive in another room, according to testimony posted on the monitoring site BembaTrial.org.
But despite the focus on rape, Brigid Inder is worried about aspects of the somewhat showcase trial.
Read the full story at Women's eNews: http://www.womensenews.org/story/rape/110105/bemba-icc-trial-showcases-war-rape-prosecutionThe prosecution of Jean-Pierre Bemba, which resumes Jan. 11 in The Hague, is expected... more
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Perfect Marriage | Estrogen for Testosterone in Wall Street
Anne of Carversville
Smart Sensuality People with Heart
When I first wrote “Wall Street Needs Two Queens and a Great Dame”, no one would listen to me. Posted over at BlogCritics, such radical thinking got me nowhere.
With today’s cover article at New York Magazine titled “What If Women Ran Wall Street”, I’m taking back my words, bringing them home where hopefully more people will listen to me.
I’m so much smarter since the day I wrote the original essay on men, testosterone and trading. I watched yesterday’s health care debate, with mostly Republican men defending the good old days of America’s founding.
That would be the days when women had no rights and couldn’t vote, although they could get abortions. I don’t have this Tea Party Desire to get back to the days when we killed all the Indians and introduced guns to the Wild West.
Life in the 21st century is not romantic fiction, and I would like the boys club to get serious about the future. Our John Wayne cultural history needs a shakeup, which typically happens when people grow up into adulthood.
New York Magazine writer Sheelah Kolhatkar asked Sheila Bair chairman of the FDIC, about new testosterone research implications for the financial markets, and her two top men had a good laugh:
… the two men sitting in on our interview—Andrew Gray, her press director, and Jesse Villarreal, her chief of staff—burst out with horrified laughter, as if it were the most absurd thing they’ve ever heard. Bair responded more carefully. “With some of those academic studies, I can see what they’re saying, and I think there may be some truth to that, with the caveat that you should never categorize people,” she said. “Perhaps from a risk-management standpoint, having diversity and different perspectives and attitudes is helpful.”
While Bair is regarded in some circles as a prudent, risk-averse regulator who helped save the banking system, she’s made quite a few enemies along the way. She’s publicly feuded with Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, even pushing for a shake-up in Citi’s management. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has reportedly fought to push Bair out of her job. via New York Magazine
Bottom line, the question is whether or not the global economy should be run like a crapshoot. When men speak of the logic of the markets, there is little.
Being feminist to the core, I never struggled with the idea that female biology is different than male biology — even though the admission nearly got me run out of an Intel Conference by the PhD ladies from Berkeley.
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Perfect Marriage | Estrogen for Testosterone in Wall Street
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In her Alaska reality TV show, Sarah Palin has a close encounter with grizzlies, kayaks down swift-moving rivers and climbs tall mountains, not in a single bound perhaps, but with grit and determination.
All in all, she appears to be trying for a single-handed reenactment of "How the West was Won." She also appears to be telling the whole nation--as she told Republicans on the campaign trail--how to "man up."
Palin has a penchant for slang that questions the masculinity of men who don't see things her way. Back in July, Palin announced that President Obama lacked "the cojones" to take on the problems of undocumented immigrants.
Her "man up" usage spread to other right-wing female candidates in this year's elections. In Nevada, Sharron Angle told Harry Reid to man up and Christine O'Donnell in Delaware gave the same message to her republican opponent Mike Castle.
The phrase hasn't yet run its course. In a recent episode of "Morning Joe" on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough decreed that the whole country needed to man up.
I suspect the high-testosterone political talks suggests a tide of nostalgia, not only for the good old days of prosperity and high-paid manufacturing jobs, but for a gone-but-not-forgotten era when (mainly white) men ruled the roost, in politics, business and of course the household.
This nostalgia harks back to a time when men could simply pull up stakes, grab a rifle and head West if they didn't like the way their lives were turning out.
Read the full story: http://www.womensenews.org/story/parenting/101217/guys-in-snuglis-do-the-real-manningIn her Alaska reality TV show, Sarah Palin has a close encounter with grizzlies,... more
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If one movie tackles the big drama of gender identity this month it's Julie Taymor's "The Tempest," which brings us Prospero, Shakespeare's cast-off sorcerer and committed father figure, in the female guise of one Prospera, played by the always-commanding Dame Helen Mirren.
Taymor wields her own magic here. She waves her cinematic wand, bringing to life a dark spectacle of dangerous wizardry with deep psychological resonance that rivals that of the blockbuster "Harry Potter" films. See it soon; it's opening today.
A fortnight from now, look for Sofia Coppola's moving "Somewhere," which opens Dec. 22. It stars Stephen Dorff as Johnny Marko, a movie star isolated by his empty celebrity who tries to reconnect with real life through his daughter (Elle Fanning), who suffers seriously from abandonment issues.
In "Somewhere," Coppola eschews the special effects gala she created in "Marie Antoinette" (2006) and returns to the quieter, more contemplative tone of "Lost In Translation" (2003), for which she became one of just four female directors to be Oscar-nominated for "best director," before Kathryn Bigelow's breakthrough triumph last year.
Year-end movie releases, meanwhile, are of course all about holiday box office and Oscars buzz. This December is true to form.
Read the full story: http://www.womensenews.org/story/arts/101209/prospera-brings-dark-magic-life-in-decemberIf one movie tackles the big drama of gender identity this month it's Julie... more
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Just what kind of person can get away with saying whatever comes to mind? What kind of man or human can say the single darkest, unholy, controversial, racist, and vulgar sentence imaginable and still get his or her friends, family and neighbours to turn the other cheek? What kind of person can attain diplomatic immunity, without filing any paper work? What kind of person is literally untouchable? And no, I’m not referring to the dude responsible for Wikileaks. Allow me to perform a character sketch...
read on @ http://www.forgetthebox.net/mag/forum-m/how-to-get-away-with-saying-anything-political-correctness%E2%80%99s-loophole.php
and don't forget to check us out on twitter & Facebook: (@ForgetTheBox)Just what kind of person can get away with saying whatever comes to mind? What kind of... more
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Reteaching Gender & Sexuality is a message about queer youth action and resilience. The video was generated to contribute additional queer/trans youth voices to the national conversations about queer/trans youth lives. Reteaching Gender & Sexuality intends to steer the conversation beyond the symptom of bullying, to consider systemic issues and deeper beliefs about gender and sexuality that impact queer youth. We invite you to share the video with your friends, family and networks; we invite you to share with us what THIS issue means to you!Reteaching Gender & Sexuality is a message about queer youth action and... more
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back away from an earlier decision to set up single-sex academies in the city's schools.
She is taking flak in some quarters, but she should be applauded for taking time to evaluate the data before rushing headlong into a popular but flawed approach to education. (Legal issues in Massachusetts also were a factor in her decision.) More educators around the U.S. should follow her lead.
Single-sex schools are often touted as a magic bullet for what ails American public education. It's claimed that boys and girls learn very differently–because their brains are so different--and that gender- segregated classrooms are necessary.
Read the full story: http://www.womensenews.org/story/media-stories/101119/single-sex-ed-based-baloney-scienceback away from an earlier decision to set up single-sex academies in the city's... more
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It started with the "Vagisil Award" in which a foam tiara decorated with military fatigue cloth and the label of an anti-itch vaginal ointment was placed on the head of a lower-ranking woman in the Texas Air National Guard.
The recipient was chosen because, her commanding officers said, "she whined and bitched about everything," according to a colleague who witnessed the ceremony at a leadership camp attended by top brass in the Texas Air National Guard.
Mark Greenblatt, an investigative reporter at KHOU-TV in Houston, heard about the crowning while working on another story involving the military.
It's the kind of tangential information that reporters often come across when they're following something else. Greenblatt thought it was worth checking out.
Over the next two years he would dig up a story that was not only about the abuse of women by top officers but also allegations of financial fraud.
Read the full story: http://www.womensenews.org/story/journalist-the-month/101118/vagisil-military-award-led-journalism-kudosIt started with the "Vagisil Award" in which a foam tiara decorated with... more
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With year-end holidays and Academy Awards on the horizon, November promises plenty for moviegoers.
But if forced to choose, I'd pick "Made in Dagenham," opening Nov. 19, as the most must-see film of all.
This stirring history-based drama is about the 1968 strike at Ford's Dagenham car factory in England, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination, shut down the plant and won equal pay and recognition for their skills as workers.
The wonderful Sally Hawkins--who played Poppy in 2008's "Happy-Go-Lucky"--stars as the unflappable and unstoppable Rita O'Grady, a skilled machinist, loving homemaker and regular gal. O'Grady stands up for what she knows to be just and finds herself leading her co-workers forward. By persuading the male-dominated union to support their cause, O'Grady and the other strikers win a victory for unionized women everywhere.
"Made In Dagenham" is destined to join the ranks of "Norma Rae" and "Silkwood" as a classic tale of a salt-of-the-earth woman driven by trying circumstances into the forefront of the battle for economic justice.
Read the full story: http://www.womensenews.org/story/arts/101103/rita-ogrady-joins-film-ranks-rae-and-silkwoodWith year-end holidays and Academy Awards on the horizon, November promises plenty for... more
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In a finding that confronts deeply rooted beliefs about parenting, a new study concludes that parents' genders have little impact on children -- suggesting that same-sex couples are as effective at raising children as heterosexual couples.
(more at link)In a finding that confronts deeply rooted beliefs about parenting, a new study... more
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Five-year-old Dyson Kilodavis is a little boy who loves sparkly things: princess gowns, hot pink socks, glittery jewelry. Deal with it. A five-year-old boy named Dyson loves wearing dresses, jewelry, and all kinds of stuff that’s traditionally for girls.Five-year-old Dyson Kilodavis is a little boy who loves sparkly things: princess... more
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Women's representation in Congress--already disproportionately weak at 17 percent--could drop for the first time in 30 years in these November 2010 elections.
But that doesn't stop Mary Hughes, president and co-founder of Staton Hughes, a political consulting firm in San Francisco, from looking forward to another big election "year of the woman" two years from now.
Hughes, after 25 years of helping women get elected, launched the 2012 Project in July with sponsorship from the Center for American Women in Politics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.
The project is a nonpartisan effort to invite qualified women who are 45 and older to run in two years. The group chose 2012 since it's the next election to follow a U.S. Census, which redraws voting districts according to the country's changing population distribution.
Read the rest: http://www.womensenews.org/story/campaign-trail/101025/year-the-woman-part-ii-agenda-2012Women's representation in Congress--already disproportionately weak at 17... more
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