Tongue Untied: Big Red Monkey Bootie and Pornography
Author Ian Kernan quotes from an article spoofing monkey porn, scientific research, and the ever looming gender question.
Culture Kitchen: Does the Bible Make Me Look Fat in this Dress?
A look at the body politic, tied to Terri Schiavo and the Christian religion.
Whirled View: Anger Management
Cheryl Rofer discusses American nationalism and its convergence with religion.
Chaos Theory: The things people post on the street
Pictures of strange street signs from all over the world.
Aldahlia: Indian Men
What makes a man beautiful, and why aren’t Asian men represented as beautiful through an American lens? This man in particular can approach me any day.
Kevin Drum: Sex and Gender
Drum finally gets kudos from me for his approach on this post, even if he does pigeonhole “feminist rhetoric” and “academic feminism.”
Pen-Elayne: Wrapping up Estrogen Month
As the title implies, Elayne Riggs wraps up her Estrogen Month series with a handy chart for easy browsing. Many good women were highlighted over the month of March that were promptly added to my bloglines account. Thanks to Elayne for putting together such a long and detailed series.
What Do I Know?: Cost Containing the Culture of Life
The Culture of Life according to Jeb Bush. It ain’t pretty.
Body and Soul: Moral Objections
The Conscientious Objector Policy Act in comparison to another form of conscientious objection: a soldier’s right to refuse to perform military service that conflicts with their beliefs.
Rad Geek: Fathers for Lies: selective quotation and distortion of Catharine MacKinnon’s position
Charles defends MacKinnon again, and has a telling conversation via email with Walter Schneider of Fathers For Life.
Also, Sex and the Single Superheroine: When moviemakers ignore that audiences are complex and don’t always respond to the archetypes, they will be disappointed when the money doesn’t come rolling in. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case, and Hollywood continues to bankroll bankrupt flicks.
Crooked Timber: Making Men Into Fathers
A guest blogger writing a series on the economics of the family discusses how some European countries attempt to normalize more invovled fathers through TV ad campiagns. On many levels, they seem to be successful.
Pinko Feminist Hellcat: The Wage Gap Story — It’s All In The Angle
The recent discovery that college-educated, working African-American and Asian-American women make more than college-educated, working Caucasian women overlooks one major aspect of the whole. College-educated white men still make more than $25K a year than all women.
Ms. Lauren said: What makes a man beautiful, and why aren’t Asian men represented as beautiful through an American lens? This man in particular can approach me any day.
damn, he’s got a smolder to him, don’t he? her comments reminded me of the sexiest part of the film “The English Patient” – when the Sikh soldier lets down his hair….
my friends & i have wondered about this peculiar absence of Asian men from the US public gaze as well. i don’t have cable or anything anymore so my popkulcha knowledge is a bit rusty but back a few years ago you’d have to struggle to find an Asian man anywhere regularly in the media (& no, we weren’t including Keanu)
sure, they’d pop up in movies now & again (a Jackie here, a Jet there). but more noticeable was the near complete lack of Asian men as news anchors or pundits, either at a national or local level (& the local was especially peculiar, given we were in Seattle, which has a huge & diverse Asian population).
quick, name an Asian actor! (no, NOT Keanu) – see? it’s a bizarre & troubling blindspot. beyond the fact that some kind of weird sex & race thing is being played out in an o so american way, we must also consider the fact that the american public is being cheated of prime beefcake! i mean, i could stand with seeing more of someone like this in the media more often…
oops… by “her comments” i meant Nehanda, at the linked site… not Ms. Lauren
just being clear…
Thanks for the lovely plug, Lauren! If anyone else knows how to get rid of those stupid “phantom line breaks” between my text and the chart, please let me know…
Elayne, you’ve got four line breaks between your text and the table. I’m not sure what it looks like in the Blogspot interface, but just try deleting any space between it and the text. A table will automatically appear on a new line anyway.
as a fan of international film from way back, and a cuhluhd gal, meself, I can’t say I’ve ever not had raging hormonal crushes over asian men. i never understood how the best we got in our media were the “dorky” sidekicks, Apu-stereotypes, asexual doctors, etc. Then, a few years back, a white male friend of mine was chatting with his Korean buddy about why he wouldn’t be welcome at the Korean club buddy would be hitting that night. My friend’s first, and honest reaction/belief: “What, the asian guys are afraid we’ll (the white guys) take their girls?” It was the most arrogant thing I think I’ve ever heard, and yet so telling. Never occurred to him he just wasn’t the shit, wouldn’t be worshipped, or maybe the girls would like to hang out some place where they wouldn’t be harassed by white guys with fetishes! Whoa, getting way off topic. My point was, I think it could be as simple as huge arrogance on the part of the males controlling the media, who just don’t get that women of all colors do find asian men as sexy as other men (gasp! Shock!) That, and reluctance to take risks financially. I mean, yeah, Jason Scott Lee is hot as a muhfuggah, carried Dragon half nekkid, and might I recommend Rapa Nui? Sidetracked again…oh, but have you seen him in practically ANYTHING since? Where is his ginormous lady fanclub, demanding we see more of him, or Ken Watanabe, etc. and less of dragon-toothed, self-aggrandizing, I-hate-him-so-much-it-hurts Tom Cruise?
Then again, what do I know? I’m a weirdo aquarian.
Ever since I took a class on South Asian history, I’ve been obsessed with Bollywood. The actors, male and female, are to die for. And the music!