You see something absurd. You hear something absurd. You read something absurd = Yeah,TNTG. Posts tagged gender.
solange is too trill
Solange is her own muse
oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings:
Spotted: An extremely oppressed brown woman skating her way to Oppressedville.
Haha that caption
Peep her shoes though. Stunting on all of us.
White Men, Everyone Else: Gender and Ethnic Diversity on Cable News
Media Matters spent the month of April reviewing evening guests on cable news. The results, unfortunately, don’t surprise: CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC “overwhelmingly host male and white guests.”
Read through for the details as the watchdog group breaks down the numbers for each network. We learn, for instance, that “Out of 1,677 total guests, CNN had the largest proportion of men — 76 percent — during the month of April;” and “Fox News had the largest proportion of white guests — 83 percent.”
Hat tip to Chris Hayes, whose show is the most diverse in cable evening news. And getting there isn’t very difficult. “We just would look at the board and say, ‘We already have too many white men. We can’t have more,’” Hayes told Ann Friedman at the Columbia Journalism Review back in March. “Really, that was it.”
Images: Diversity On Evening Cable News, via Media Matters. Select to embiggen.
why have gender roles when you could have pizza rolls
Junot Diaz on Men Who Write About Women
The Atlantic: It sounds like you're saying that literary "talent" doesn't inoculate a writer—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You'd think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand people who are unlike you—whether we're talking about gender or another category. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Junot Diaz: I think that unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Without fail. The only way not to do them is to admit to yourself [that] you're fucked up, admit to yourself that you're not good at this shit, and to be conscious in the way that you create these characters. It's so funny what people call inspiration. I have so many young writers who're like, "Well I was inspired. This was my story." And I'm like, "OK. Sir, your inspiration for your stories is like every other male's inspiration for their stories: that the female is only in there to provide sexual service." There comes a time when this mythical inspiration is exposed for doing exactly what it's truthfully doing: to underscore and reinforce cultural structures, or I'd say, cultural asymmetry.
Resources for Male Survivors
[tw: sexual assault, rape]
I posted last week asking people if they knew of some good resources for male victims of sexual assault. Here is the list people came up with:
Thanks everyone!
“ A look at sheer numbers to put things into perspective…
There are approximately 40 million black people in America. There are more black people in America than there are people in countries such as Canada, Argentina, Poland and Peru. Wouldn’t that make us the equivalent of a nation? We probably have the purchasing power that exceeds these countries as well.
And guess what? These countries have their OWN economies, engage in trade with other nations, develop talent and collaborate with other entities. We have the numbers and the purchasing power to do the same. What we lack is the desire to organize and the values under which we can operate.
22 million of these people are black women. There are more black women in America than there are people in Australia, the Netherlands and Sri Lanka. We have enough numbers just among the women alone. So many people. So many hands. So many minds.
What are we going to do about it?
There are approximately 40 million black people in America. There are more black people in America than there are people in countries such as Canada, Argentina, Poland and Peru. Wouldn’t that make us the equivalent of a nation? We probably have the purchasing power that exceeds these countries as well.
And guess what? These countries have their OWN economies, engage in trade with other nations, develop talent and collaborate with other entities. We have the numbers and the purchasing power to do the same. What we lack is the desire to organize and the values under which we can operate.
22 million of these people are black women. There are more black women in America than there are people in Australia, the Netherlands and Sri Lanka. We have enough numbers just among the women alone. So many people. So many hands. So many minds.
What are we going to do about it?
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For Black Women ONLY (via shesthedifferencemaker)
The demographic breakdown here is pretty elegant and makes an interesting point.
(via invisiblelad)
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The romance industry conflates finding love with looking a certain way, and it’s hard even for the strongest of us not to internalize messages about the way we look. And worse, these messages are normalized. Just think of things people say when they are getting ready to date someone: ‘He’s cute,’ ‘He’s short,’ ‘He’s kind of chubby,’ ‘He’s tall and fine.’ Or men: ‘I prefer slender girls,’ ‘I’m not really into fat girls,’ ‘I prefer Asian chicks,’ and on and on. It is completely acceptable to say the most appalling things about the way people look when it comes to dating, and if someone is called out for it, their opinion becomes a matter of ‘preference.’
What gets ignored in calling this level of categorization ‘just preference’ is a history and culture of mainstream advertising that impacts our psychology, causing us to actually want to respond to certain things over others. It’s hardly a coincidence that people are attracted to images of femininity that have been beaten into their psyches….We are taught to prefer certain things over others, and when we repeatedly see the same exaggerated images of femininity and masculinity, we internalize a specific standard of beauty and begin to strive for it unconsciously. Considering the exaggerated nature of these kinds of images, preference is not really a ‘preference’; it is more like a culturally sanctioned fetish.— Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life (via eibmorb)
