Posts tagged: gender
- On marriage and gender
- A law against spousal rape. A law against spousal murder. A paycheck of her own. And egalitarian marriage. Once women got political power, they insisted on being protected by the ordinary privileges of citizens of a modern democratic society rather than a husband fenced in by the medieval kind of marriage to which Douthat and [...] [10 Aug 2010]
- On blacks and gays and gals in New Orleans
- Big Freedia and Galactic at the Fillmore from Big Freedia on Vimeo. As far back as the ’40s and ’50s, it was a really popular thing. Gay performers have been celebrated forever in New Orleans black culture. Not to mention that in New Orleans there’s the tradition of masking, mummers, carnival, all the weird identity [...] [24 Jul 2010]
- On the work-family balance and gender equality
- Sweden had already gone further than many countries have now in relieving working mothers: Children had access to highly subsidized preschools from 12 months and grandparents were offered state-sponsored elderly care. The parent on leave got almost a full salary for a year before returning to a guaranteed job, and both could work six-hour days [...] [10 Jun 2010]
- On Marriage and Equality
- Our work must be not just about marriage equality, it should also be about equal marriages, and about equal rights and security for those who opt out of marriage altogether. From Melissa Harris-Lacewell‘s post Reflections on Marriage (via Twanna). Yes. Read the whole thing. Harris-Lacewell captures most of my fears and concerns about marriage and [...] [8 Apr 2010]
- 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 [...] [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 [...] [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 [...] [27 Jan 2007]