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Yes I Can: breaking stereotypes
- Some say there is truth in stereotypes - others say they promote outdated cliches. What do you think? more info
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Rednecks for Obama
Although I am a lifelong republican, I applaud these guys for breaking a steroetype.
Where I am from, South Carolina, being redneck is an honorable affliction. It means many things. It may mean one is a hardworking manual laborer, with a passion for outdoor life. It may also mean that one enjoys a simple self reliant life, with emphasis on core values. Many self proclaimed rednecks I know in my region are doctors, lawyers, educators, engineers, and all are simultaneously hunters, conservationists, part-time subsistence farmers, or philanthropists.
In many parts of the country the word 'redneck' is, more often than not, a racial epithet.
I feel the same way about the word as, I suspect, many persons of African ancestry feel about the "N word." To clarify, if the label comes from a fellow redneck, then we share a common bond. However, if it comes from someone in anger, it is the most extreme insult I could receive.
Why is that? For those who don't know, perhaps our UK brethren, many use the term 'redneck' to mean an ignorant, racist southerner who is uneducated, uncultured, and poor.
How did the term 'redneck' come into usage? Many believe the term's use came about to refer to those who worked fields of crops. Through continuous bending and stooping in these fields, one's neck became red as a result of the hot sun.
Why are the 'Rednecks for Obama' important? This group is a symbol of what I feel Obama's campaign embodies. That is, the destruction of racially motivated stereotypes.
Whether or not Obama is elected our next president, let's make 2008 known as the year the United States tore down racial stereotypes to unite for the common good. Although I am a lifelong republican, I applaud these guys for breaking a steroetype. ... more -
Welcome to Bonetown
According to the preview above, the forthcoming BoneTown will be a landmark in bridging the worlds of pornography and video games. It also offers amazingly hideous stereotypes of women, men, African-Americans, Jews, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, Indians, and, uh, Ron Jeremy (who at least participated willingly.) Happy wanking, nerds. (Audio NSFW, visuals OK.)
The end is near. According to the preview above, the forthcoming BoneTown will be a landmark in bridging the worlds of pornography and video games. It ... more -
'Cheerleaders' prove to be smarter than you might think
Think smart not smut - very cool shorts from Hungry Man group
A group of 'cheerleaders', seemingly rejected by the Cowboys, head out into the wide world and get up to some fun, and fight injustice, wrong some rights, and help people...
Beautifully done, some genius touches, and with episodes ranging from the 'Danny Glover cab test' to seeing if they can peddle crap jewellery (yep, literally), there's some gems in there.
Check the specially crafted hip-hop soundbeds as well.
Their site's a bit confusing - click through on episode, and then hit series on the TV (or head straight here for the full collection - http://www.hungrymantv.com/series.php )
Go UC !!!!
d Think smart not smut - very cool shorts from Hungry Man group ... more -
McDonald's is making lattes so women can stop pretending to be intelligent?
Woman 1: You know I heard McDonalds is making lattes now.
Woman 2: McDonalds? Well that's just...fantastic!
W1: Isn't it?! Now we don't have to listen to jazz all day long!
W2: I can start wearing heels again.
W1: Read gossip magazines! (tosses book away)
W2: Watch reality TV shows...
W1: I like television!
W2: I can't really speak French.
W1: I don't know where Paraguay is!
W2: Paraguay? Woman 1: You know I heard McDonalds is making lattes now. Woman 2: McDonalds? Well that's just...fantastic! ... more -
The Extra MIle
The Extra Mile is a picture story on Staff Sergeant Weiss. Weiss is a recruiter who breaks the mold of the typical stereotypes.
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Sex, Stereotypes and Beauty: The ABCs and Ds of Commercial Images of Women
This presentation by NOW Foundation's Love Your Body Campaign illustrates and describes how advertisers and the media enforce unrealistic beauty standards, sexual ideals and gender stereotypes that girls and women are expected to follow. What is the impact of these images on the health and well-being of women and girls, and what can YOU do? This presentation by NOW Foundation's Love Your Body Campaign illustrates and describes how advertisers and the media enforce unr... more
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EU opposes sexist gender stereotypes in advertisements
Members of the European Parliament have voted in favor of a report which calls on advertisers to stop portraying men and women in traditional gender roles.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on Wednesday adopted a new report that calls on member states to make a greater effort to monitor how gender is portrayed in advertising. Constant images of women in the kitchen while men clean their cars outside are reinforcing sexist stereotypes, the study argues.
The non-legally binding report, which was drafted by Swedish MEP Eva-Britt Svensson, also calls on EU institutions to monitor the implementation of existing European laws on sex discrimination.
"MEPs call on the EU institutions and member states to develop awareness actions against sexist insults or degrading images of women and men in advertising and marketing," the lawmakers said in a statement after adopting the report by 504 votes in favor, 110 against and 22 abstentions.
Before the vote, Svensson stated that people are often not aware of how much they are influenced by advertising. "When women and men are portrayed in a stereotypical way the consequence may be that it becomes difficult in other contexts to see women and men's resources and abilities in areas other than those of the traditional gender roles." Members of the European Parliament have voted in favor of a report which calls on advertisers to stop portraying men and women in trad... more -
YouTube - I Have to Deal with Stereotypes
a humorous rant on race stereotypes.
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Was 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' a racist movie?
Is "Breakfast at Tiffany's" – the lighthearted 1961 classic starring Audrey Hepburn – a racist film that perpetuates negative Asian stereotypes?
Asian American activists think so, and Sacramento Vice Mayor Steve Cohn agrees – he plans to bleep out offensive scenes when he shows the film in his district Saturday.
Thursday, Cohn publicly apologized to Sacramento's Asian American community and the rest of the citizenry for including the film in his Screen on the Green free movie series.
"We were unaware of this racist content," he said.
In the movie, Mickey Rooney plays Mr. Yunioshi, the bumbling, cantankerous upstairs neighbor of Audrey Hepburn's character, country girl turned socialite Holly Golightly.
Rooney's character "conjures all the requisite 'Jap' stereotypes: grotesque buckteeth, thick-rimmed glasses, unforgivable 'Asian' accent," wrote Dr. Christina Fa of San Francisco-based Asian American Media Watch in a letter to Cohn.
Fa, a longtime Sacramento resident, called the film "arguably the most racist anti-Asian film in American cinematic history" and asked it be canceled. The movie won two Academy Awards for its music.
CAPITAL (Council of Asian Pacific Islanders Together for Advocacy and Leadership), an umbrella group for more than 90 local organizations, joined Fa in asking Cohn and the rest of the City Council not to show a film that perpetuates "offensive, derogatory and hateful racial stereotypes detrimental and destructive to our society." Is "Breakfast at Tiffany's" – the lighthearted 1961 classic starring Audrey Hepburn – a racist film that perpetuates ne... more -
Veiled athletes challenge stereotypes in Beijing
BEIJING (Reuters) - The women in Roqaya Al Ghasara's home town in Bahrain are so proud of their pioneering Olympic sprinter that some of them got together to design and sew a set of tailor-made aerodynamic veils for her to run in.
Egyptian fencer Shaimaa El Gammal, a third-timer at the Olympics, will don Islamic headgear in Beijing for the first time. She says it is a sign she is come of age and she feels more empowered than ever.
This year's Games will see a sizable sprinkling of veiled athletes who are determined to avoid offending devout Muslims back home while showing skimpily dressed rivals there is nothing constricting about wearing "hijab".
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSPEK2870902... BEIJING (Reuters) - The women in Roqaya Al Ghasara's home town in Bahrain are so proud of their pioneering Olympic sprinter that ... more -
Women-friendly hotel floors open for lady-business
Women-only floors in hotels are returning to hotels after a roughly 25-year drought, reports the New York Times.
You what? Whole floors of hotels, just for women? Why?
The originals were intended to provide a safe haven for women traveling alone on business but ended up being considered “a kind of sexist thing,” as one hotel analyst put it.
Instead, the new Crowne Plaza Milwaukee-Wauwatosa says it has set up a “female-friendly” enclave. Anyone booking a room on the Women’s Executive Level — the seventh floor — has access to a variety of amenities like a Victoria’s Secret robe, a blow dryer and vanity mirrors. But, and here is the difference, male guests can book a room on the floor, too.
The strategy is sort of the same on the King Executive Level one floor above, what most hotels refer to as the concierge or club floor. Guests receive perks including free cocktails and concierge services, like making reservations at restaurants. But while those services have traditionally been aimed at men, women can book a room on that floor and relax in the lounge.
The Crowne Plaza Milwaukee is not alone in playing to niche preferences. The Millennium chain’s Premier Hotel in Times Square has a “Woman Travelers Floor” that includes yoga mats, wash mitts, bath salts and a spa-style room-service menu.
In Albany, the downtown Hampton Inn just introduced a floor for female guests that offers cookies, flavored coffees, skin moisturizers and extra-soft socks, plus a half-hour session in the hotel’s massage chair. The Albany program does permit men on the women’s floor on weekends.
So hotels are trying to cater for the growing numbers of women travellers by giving them extra-big mirrors, bubble bath, a girly dressing gown and some chocolate ? Ok, so the chocolate I like, but I'm prettty sure men like chocolate too. And being able to see themselves as they shave, and washing wirh decent-quality products, and wearing comfy bath robes. Right? Unless the hotels are saying that looking at oneself, getting clean in comfort and eating chocolate are solely the preserve of women...?
What do you think? A gender-stereotyping and unecessary attempt to girlify hotel rooms, or a genuinely good idea? Women-only floors in hotels are returning to hotels after a roughly 25-year drought, reports the New York Times. ... more -
How to tell people they sound racist
Here's a nuanced approach of addressing racism in everyday situations.
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Hollywood Milks Stoner Stereotypes in Anti-Pot Propaganda Film
Above the Influence's faux documentary, Stoners In The Mist, is a film so prejudiced that even the White House -- which commissioned the interactive video -- is hesitant to promote it.
Available online at the AbovetheInfluence.com website (a project of the White House's multi-billion dollar National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, Stoners In The Mist is a series of vignettes -- each designed to grossly exaggerate and exploit common pothead stereotypes. But promoting falsehoods about the physical and mental effects of weed is nothing new for federal politicians and bureaucrats. What sets Stoners In The Mist apart from prior examples of government-financed anti-pot excrement is the film's shocking and exceedingly malevolent tone.
In this case, cannabis consumers are portrayed, quite literally, as less than human. Rather, they are mockingly characterized as wild game -- to be hunted, tagged, and bagged by the film's 'Crocodile Hunter' inspired narrator.
The host refers to pot smokers as lab "specimens" whose safety requires them to be locked up in an "artificially controlled environment" (a not-so-subtle endorsement of jail, perhaps?) Above the Influence's faux documentary, Stoners In The Mist, is a film so prejudiced that even the White House -- which commissio... more -
Immature, insensitive, sex-mad? Not us, say men
"Young, single men are fed up with being typecast as immature, insensitive and sex-obsessed, with a survey finding that the majority believe in having a soul mate, aren't scared of commitment, and say real men can cry.
A poll of 70,000 men with an average age of 28 debunked many of the standard stereotypes to show that the modern man is driven by a sense of values, loyalty and family.
The survey, by men's lifestyle website AskMen.com, found that 77 percent of respondents look for girlfriends with "wife potential" while 75 percent believe they have a soul mate and 69 percent would never cheat on their partner.
"These survey results will be surprising to many women, most of whom have a completely different perspective of what the average man thinks and feels," James Bassil, editor-in-chief of AskMen.com, told Reuters.
"The idea that young guys only want to be single and jump from girlfriend to girlfriend is not true at all."
The online survey, conducted over a five-week period, found that six out of 10 men were fed up with inaccurate commercial descriptions of them.
Bassil said the images of men on television and in advertisments had not changed or been challenged for decades whereas the image of women in the media was always changing as their roles in the home and the workplace altered.
"In TV sitcoms and in adverts, young men are portrayed as immature, frat boys who are always trying to get around their wives or girlfriends finding out about their bad behaviour. This is just not the case," he said."
So what's the deal guys- are you loser sex hounds or is there something more to ya? I really think it's true that commercials and sitcoms stereotype guys- and women suffer for it as well, because we're always bitchy nags who have to pull the dude into shape. Time for a change? "Young, single men are fed up with being typecast as immature, insensitive and sex-obsessed, with a survey finding that the major... more -
Pinkberry manages to offend customers with mandarin juicer
Pinkberry customers are up in arms about Asian stereotypes among the Alessi housewares carried by the fro-yo chain. Of particular offense are the Mandarin Juicers, which the Drop the Juicer! Campaign describes as "essentially three-dimensional caricatures of Chinese 'coolies' or laborers who emigrated to the United States well over a century ago." Pinkberry customers are up in arms about Asian stereotypes among the Alessi housewares carried by the fro-yo chain. Of particular offe... more
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Homosexuality is natural!
"... But researchers are finding that same-sex couplings are surprisingly widespread in the animal kingdom..."
This article is about same-sex couplings in both captive and wild animals. This kind of research debunks the mythology that homosexuality is "unnatural" and therefore wrong, and can hopefully lead to more tolerance for the wide spectrum of human sexuality. "... But researchers are finding that same-sex couplings are surprisingly widespread in the animal kingdom..." ... more -
Li-Lo's a laidback ladygardener
Female First (everyone's favourite top quality purveyor of insightful news for women) reports that Lindsay Lohan is adopting the 'passive wife' role in her rumoured lesbian relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson.
Good to see gender stereotypes are alive and well! And great to see the alleged lesbian relationship of two Hollywood stars reduced to 'playing house'! Happy (or maybe even, um, gay) days!
Are you a top or a bottom? Do you wear the skirt or the trousers? Or are you simply a human being who's active sometimes, passive at others, and generally far too good for any of this sterotyping nonsense anyway? Female First (everyone's favourite top quality purveyor of insightful news for women) reports that Lindsay Lohan is adopting the ... more -
Mina's Way
Overall, Mina has an interesting life full of highs and lows. He has great friends, a great disposition, and a great story to tell. He has challenges in his life may it be social, financial, cultural, or school-related. Although he seems to live double life, Mina has plenty of time to be Mina.
Mina looks like your average student. He is creative, witty, and wears American Eagle. However, there is more than meets the eye with this young man. Moving to California from Minnesota gave Mina more freedom to find himself and be the man he is inside on the outside.
From partying five nights a week to performing in drag, Mina will help us experience gay culture in Ventura, California. We will see the good, the bad, and the ugly in this film. This is a culture that many do not see.
Overall, Mina has an interesting life full of highs and lows. He has great friends, a great disposition, and a great story to tell. He has challenges in his life may it be social, financial, cultural, or school-related. Although he seems to live double life, Mina has plenty of time to just be Mina. Overall, Mina has an interesting life full of highs and lows. He has great friends, a great disposition, and a great story to tell. He... more -
All-female law firm defends sexual stereotypes
An all-female Buffalo law firm is getting a mix of cheers and boos for a series of ads that tout its woman power. “Ever Argue with a Woman?” reads the headline of one of the ads for Schroder Joseph & Associates LLP.
“Labor Pains? Talk to us. (We’re women . . . We get it),” states another in the series of ads for the firm that specializes in corporate labor and employment law.
In recent weeks, the marketing strategy has been the subject of Internet debate on the American Bar Association’s Web site, as well as adrants.com, a site with an advertising industry following.
The main criticisms of the ads, which play up the firm’s feminine strengths, is that they perpetuate sexual stereotyping.
“Great, next they’ll sell us on female surgeons because they sew better,” reads a post on adrants.com.
A comment on the ABA Web site said the ads open the door to male lawyers touting masculine virtues and suggests some not-so-politically-correct tag lines.
“Men Work Harder and Don’t Take Time Off For Childbirth” or “How Many Women Play Pro Football . . . Women Are Weak,” are two of the proposed male-centric ads.
“Sexism is sexism and humor is just a veil to excuse it,” the ABA site comment concludes.
The ads were created by Jennifer Dowdell, an account executive at Business First, who tapped her background in graphic arts. Dowdell’s goal was to come up with marketing materials that captured the firm’s personality while promoting its skill set.
In addition to the “labor pains” and “argue with a woman,” the campaign also taps themes tied to sexual harassment and maternal instincts. An all-female Buffalo law firm is getting a mix of cheers and boos for a series of ads that tout its woman power. “Ever Argue with a W... more -
Living Library Loans...People?
A library in London is loaning more than just books. Designed to teach tolerance, the living library features individuals who represent stereotypes that are often the target of prejudice and hatred. Readers borrow the individuals for half an hour to hear their narrative and ask questions. Subjects included a Muslim, an immigrant, an atheist, a transgender individual, and a witch.
I think this sounds like a great idea--I'd love to see someone doing this in the US! A library in London is loaning more than just books. Designed to teach tolerance, the living library features individuals who represen... more
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