How Equality In Sport is Undermined by Compulsory Heterosexuality
By Leanne Norman, cross-posted from On The Issues Magazine. A major hidden ideology that runs through sports and that affects all women participants is the need to appear feminine, according to research that I’ve conducted in the United Kingdom. My study leads me to conclude that the fight to gain equality in sports will mean [...]
...read moreGender and Pop Culture
There’s a great article up on Pop Matters about the gender divide in pop culture. The author asks, “Are celebrity “girls” really the only gender that’s “gone wild”? Or has the media gone mad — and misogynistic?” The media’s unrelenting fascination with and gleeful debasement of female celebrities whom they’ve deemed “bad girls” is at [...]
...read moreMiddle School Girls Gone Wild
It’s hard to write this without sounding like a prig. But it’s just as hard to erase the images that planted the idea for this essay, so here goes. The scene is a middle school auditorium, where girls in teams of three or four are bopping to pop songs at a student talent show. Not [...]
...read moreLactivists take to the streets
Really, what is the big deal about breastfeeding in public? Good for these “lactivists” — a public display of breastfeeding is just what we need. Babies need to eat, and breastmilk is whats best for them. People need to get over whatever sqeamishness or fears they have toward a lactating breast. “We’re all told that [...]
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