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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingHappiness in a Society of Individuals”The predictions of the ‘end of ideology’ that were rife and widely accepted twenty to thirty years ago do not seem to have come true. What we are witnessing, rather, is a curious twist in the idea of ‘ideology’: in…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingFrom Superdome to Superlove”Few people know that New Orleans is the vagina of America. Few would suggest it. “It is fertile. It’s a delta. And everyone wants to party there,” explains Eve Ensler, activist, feminist icon - and the author of The Vagi…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Relate, which provides counselling, sex therapy and relationship education, said there had been a 40 per cent increase in male clients admitting that, despite being physically able to have sex, they can’t be bothered.”"Bell said the problem is ‘partly…
Read the rest here: Modern Times: Men Get Headaches TooPhallic Panic: The Fear to Share
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Torn between the need to cuddle and the call of the wild, men no longer know what their role is. No one advocates a return to the sweat lodges, bonfire dancing, and drumming of the Robert Bly wild-man retreats popular in the mid-90s, but male-bonding …
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Iran’s top prosecutor has called for restrictions in the import of Western toys, saying they have a destructive effect on the country’s youth.Mr Najafabadi, a high-ranking cleric, said Iran was the world’s third biggest importer of toys, with many mor…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingJillFilopivic: One issue you tackle a lot is the feminist compromise — how far feminists can or should bend to a patriarchal system in order to just get through their lives, and where feminists should draw the line. The same arguments spring up in the…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingWasn’t the collapse of communism supposed to open up all kinds of freedoms, including greater freedom for women? What happened?Agnieszka Graff: The word used in a lot of gender research in Eastern Europe after 1989 is “retraditionalization.” As c…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Saudi Arabia’s rigid sex segregation, compulsory male guardianship of women and other “grossly discriminatory” policies are a denial of fundamental rights, a leading human rights watchdog says today.Every Saudi woman must have a male guardian, normall…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“A graduate of Barnard, and an A.B.D. in 18th-century English literature from Columbia, Erica Jong began her literary career as a poet, but it was Fear of Flying that made her famous, and that novel, as the critic Lisa Marie Hogeland has said in Femini…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingOutsourcing HarmI met Xiao Wei, the popstar whose message of love and green harmony inspired several of the 30-something activists I’d met, back when they were teenagers. Given his soft style and hippy lyrics, I expected him to rail against the consume…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingOutsourcing HarmI met Xiao Wei, the popstar whose message of love and green harmony inspired several of the 30-something activists I’d met, back when they were teenagers. Given his soft style and hippy lyrics, I expected him to rail against the consume…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled many women — of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to mention the countless women who came before me and were not allowed…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingSpain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has unveiled his new cabinet, which for the first time includes more women than men.Nine of the ministers are women, and eight are men; when the prime minister is included, the cabinet is equally divi…
Read the rest here: What’s Wrong With This Picture?From Flash to Backlash
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“There was a moment - 1968 to 1975, let’s say - when it seemed that everything would change for women. We were studied, promoted, advanced like a trendy minority. Then came the backlash. “Is feminism dead?” screamed the cover of Time magazine. We were …
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“As wedding season approaches, another crop of brides is currently immersed in a torturous process of self-improvement. It is hardly breaking news that women face daily pressure to look good, but most of the time this pressure is a background hum: mild…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingBed Yes, Housework No”A new University of Michigan study concludes that having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women. For men, it’s the opposite: A wife saves her husband about an hour of housework a week, the national s…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingBed Yes, Housework No”A new University of Michigan study concludes that having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women. For men, it’s the opposite: A wife saves her husband about an hour of housework a week, the national s…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Thanks to prison, I have completed the initial two of five volumes of Continue to Live, my autobiographical novel. Thanks to prison, I have learned to play the flute, employing its music to call on the spirits of the ancient masters and console myself…
Read the rest here: My Enemies, My TeachersDouble Standards and Inclusive Democracy
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“In my whole political life I have never seen a male candidate whose clothes and hair are discussed” President Michelle Bachelet said yesterday in London. “There is a machismo, and a sexism, and it is not just in Latin America … If a woman talks hard…
Read the rest here: Double Standards and Inclusive DemocracyWomen Own 1% of the World’s Titled Land
from Lou @ Moving and ShakingOne Bloody PercentWomen are discriminated against in almost every country around the world, a UN-commissioned report says. It says that this is despite the fact that 185 UN member states pledged to outlaw laws favouring men by 2005. It adds that 70%…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Before 1965, King was upbeat and bright, his belief in white America’s ability to change by moral suasion resilient and durable. That is the leader we have come to know during annual King commemorations. After 1965, King was darker and angrier; he gre…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingAthletica Nervosa”Lads” Magazines have been increasingly successful in recent years, and have attracted criticism for an alleged potential to exploit women rather than cause problems for their readership.Together with colleague Jessica Close, [David Gi…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingA Modest Proposal To Save New York Cool “Has the hipster killed cool in New York? Did it die the day Wes Anderson proved too precious for his own good, or was it when Chloë Sevigny fellated Vincent Gallo onscreen? Did it vanish along with Kokie’s, I…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“It wasn’t only the earning potential that led Elena to try lap-dancing - she now believes that she, and women in general, are socialised to see it as an inviting occupation. “I thought, well, I’m a sex object anyway, I might as well have it out on the…
Read the rest here: Encore: Men, Money, Women, MeatThe Adaptability of Extremism
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Extremist movements have been growing bigger and wilder for more than three decades now, during that period, America has tried pretty much everything from a policy point of view. Our presidents have been satanic (Richard Nixon), angelic (Jimmy Carter)…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“If stories are the folklore of aspiring masculinity in high school, they become the proof of sexual odysseys in adulthood. The details may change (the prom becomes a black tie benefit; girlfriends become wives), but the pursuit of sexual stories remai…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM is that men are mainly interested in a woman’s physical features, while women are mainly interested in a man’s earning potential. New research challenges this. Two psychologists carried out a large study of speed-dating, which …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingOut Of Control”Rock and roll on some nine years and the “young, happy and fun” Britney has been transformed into the mad, bad and sad woman of psychiatric wards and courtrooms - a woman confined by her father’s legal order of “conservatorship”, which p…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingSlaves of Fashion”Moving on from size zero, the big look right now is the “sacrificial virgin”: the trembling ingénue straight out of school, all gangly and underdeveloped. “”With their blonde hair, pale skin and eastern European features, some ar…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“State and federal prisons are packed with victims of the drug conflict. A new report by the Pew Center shows that 1 of every 100 adults in the U.S. — and 1 in 15 black men over 18 — is currently incarcerated. That’s the world’s highest rate of imp…
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