pop culture

Observe and Report: It Gets Worse. Much Worse.

by Cara April 8, 2009

Well.  Apparently that Seth Rogen Observe and Report movie is way, way, way, way worse than I had already anticipated.  It does not only just make plain old “rape jokes,” as in characters joking about rape — it actually includes a scene of rape as a joke. Check out this full post on Tiger Beatdown [...]

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BEATLES REMASTERS BEING RELEASED

by Cara April 7, 2009

Oh yeah.  You know that if the announcement of Beatles Rock Band required a multiple exclamation point title, the remasters finally, finally, finally being released sure as fucking hell deserves an all caps one. Press release, here. Video, if you can get it to load. (Might play better on Yoko’s site.) The clips they provide [...]

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Things That Pain Me

by Cara April 6, 2009

Seeing Yoko Ono appear on mainstream American television, appear not to discuss John Lennon but to talk about her own artwork, and even better being treated respectfully by the hosts of said television show . . . only to have her use that time to reinforce dangerous and pervasive myths about disability.  Indeed, knowing that [...]

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Sarah Haskins Blow Out

by Cara April 2, 2009

In case you’ve missed them, below are two new Target Women videos for your viewing pleasure. First up, Lifetime! (Click here if you can’t view the embedded video.) You know, I’m sure that the dogs reenacting scenes from famous movies is actually supposed to be a joke on the part of Lifetime (Right? Someone please [...]

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Rolling Stone Subscription = Cancelled

by Cara March 24, 2009

I said a few weeks ago that I was planning to cancel my subscription to Rolling Stone magazine, due to their repeated misogyny and other prejudice. Well, I hadn’t yet gotten around to it.  But then, this issue just landed in my mailbox: The subscription to “random misogyny mag,” as my husband just called it, [...]

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Observing and Reporting Rape Culture at Work

by Cara March 23, 2009

Watching random music videos on TV last night, this commercial for the new Seth Rogen film Observe and Report kept playing over and over again.  The basis of the film seems to be that Seth Rogen plays a quirky (according to IMDB, bi-polar — so yay, we can likely expect lots of “jokes” mocking disability [...]

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When a Man is the Victim: A Second Study in Rape Apology

by Cara March 20, 2009

I’ve previously done an in depth analysis of victim-blaming and rape denial, and how it varies and how it stays the same, in a case of rape where a man was the victim of a female assailant.   After seeing this video at Sociological Images, along with the questions Lisa poses about the attitudes towards [...]

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Target Women: Barbie

by Cara March 13, 2009

The latest from Sarah Haskins: (If you can’t view the embedded video, click here.) And for those of you who missed it, she also had a pretty awesome Op-Ed in the Washington Post on Barbie’s 50th birthday. (Yeah, I’ll admit it; that’s how I played with my Barbie, too.) I so cannot wait to see [...]

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Top 5 Beatles Love Songs

by Cara March 7, 2009

Though I did manage to miss my perfect opportunity to do this list on Valentine’s Day, it’s a list that can nevertheless go ignored.  The Beatles were masters of love songs — and until Revolver threw that model out, a vast majority of the songs the band wrote were indeed about nothing else.  In fact, [...]

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Let Us Pity the Poor Rapist

by Cara February 27, 2009

Via Hoyden About Town comes the story of New Zealand rugby player Jake Paringatai, who committed an act of sexual violence against a woman in at a social function.  Of course, as seems to always happen when a perpetrator is a famous sports star, rape apologism from both the media and the courts has ensued, [...]

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