Posts tagged: gender
- On class and marriage
- And in the absence of alternative models of masculinity, many low-income men will compensate for their lack of respect and resources by cultivating a hypermasculine identity that scorns traditional definitions of responsible manhood. Stephanie Coontz, in “For Women, Redefining Marriage Material: The Good and the Bad” on the New York Times’ Room for Debate blog. [22 Feb 2010]
- On being fat and likability
- Still, participants didn’t merely exhibit a preference for thin figures and indifference to obese ones — they showed active dislike toward these theoretically obese. That finding, while regrettable, is enlightening. From A Fatter Phobia at Miller-McCune. It’s not clear from the Miller-McCune piece whether or how this varies by race and gender. For example, previous studies (I’m [...] [9 Feb 2010]
- Elin Nordegren: Angry White Woman?
- With just one swing of a golf club, Tiger Woods’s wife, Elin, has shattered, or at least cracked, the stereotype of the angry and uncontrollable black woman. I, along with what I suspect to be countless other black women, would like to thank her. Not that I condone violence against anyone, but for far too [...] [8 Dec 2009]
- On empowering the powerless
- From Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009 by Jos at Feministing. While I feel a strong personal connection to this day I also know the stories are not my own. I can mourn but also recognize important power differentials that make other trans folks more likely targets of violence. We must avoid using the stories of those [...] [20 Nov 2009]
- Atlanta, GA: I Am My Own Wife
- I Am My Own Wife is a one-man play about a gay transvestite — Charlotte von Mahlsdorf — from East Berlin who survives both the Nazi and Communist regimes and creates a museum of everyday objects that served as a haven and meeting place for GLBT East Berliners until the 1990s. Actor Doyle Reynolds does an [...] [27 Jan 2007]