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What We Can't Talk About
In my grad class last night, we discussed African American's "racial uplift" approach to challenging discrimination in the early twentieth century. One of my grad students caught me in the hall during...
View ArticlePonderable
While sitting in Grizzly Peak on Friday night, I caught this commercial on the TV across the way (not surprisingly, even if they give me blog fodder, I hate TVs in public spaces). Anyway, I am working...
View ArticleLayers of Fear
This ad– from its basic premise, to its music, to its lighting – is most certainly about fear. On the surface, the advertisement plays on fears of “identity theft” by suggesting not that our financial...
View ArticleLayers of loveliness
After my recent rant about a certain American advertising campaign, I came across this: an ad about acceptance, self-reflection, and transgenderness. Yum. I can't wait for the day that something like...
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"Excuse me, where is the toilet?"
I'm in the process of retraining my brain: from now on, I'm going with "toilets" as my word of choice. Yes, much of this comes from being awash in a sea (a somewhat annoying sea when one is using lots...
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Target Practice
I've been reading up on design theories for toilets/toilet rooms of late, particularly public toilets. And there is a great divide between public toilet design and those we use in our homes. Why is it...
View ArticleArtificial Gender
A friend stumbled on this and I'm playing with it this morning.This 'analyzer' looks at a blog and guesses/predicts the gender of its author. Breaking the Code was rated as likely written by a woman:...
View ArticleVirtual Revenge -- "Hey, Baby"
And now we have this: a new video game in which a presumed-female (it is First Person Shooter, so you never actually see yourself, just how people act toward you) retaliates against the catcalls of a...
View ArticleChicago gets on board!
The anti-harassment movement is getting recognized by more transit authorities, it seems. Here is one of the CTA's posters.
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"Give Her a Kiss First Man"
(Before: Dovre Hall, Sons of Norway meeting hall)I'm working on a piece about social change organizations that buy/build their own spaces. I want to look closely at the decision to take on (through...
View ArticleRelevant
In wandering around the internet this morning, I find that the anti-street harassment movement is flourishing. There is new press coverage, a new book, new orgs... (several of which appear in my links...
View ArticleThe Conncection of Space to Values
Holly Near endorsing the idea of The Women's Building in SF:“If we are building a culture that is respectful of our lives, then we need a respectful place in which to build it.Sometimes when we borrow...
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F.B.I.
Present day 'girl watchers' can get this badge. Or a tshirt. Or a tote bag....The language touting this badge is particularly tasty:As an FBI agent (Female Body Inspector), it is your duty to serve the...
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Article 10
So... do you remember the sitcom Bosom Buddies? It was a buddy comedy from 1980s starring (a shockingly young) Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari. Desperate to find a cheap place to live, the two men turn to...
View ArticleGender Gaps in the "Revolution"
I came across this letter to Slog today and wanted to share/remember it. The statistics she cite, about the "serve passenger" trips that women are far more likely to make than men has long troubled me...
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A Visit to TVland
A few months back I watched Bosom Buddies. I see some television producers at ABC have also been revisiting the vault and will be offering up a new version soon. I'm not much of a TV watcher, but this...
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Yeah, right...
Speaking of women's workplace experiences packaged up for puffy entertainment... I've been struck lately by the wallowing in pre-feminism workplace gender roles that seems to be at the heart of both...
View ArticlePublic Drinking Cultures across Time and Space
Here is a fun new project to follow: public drinking!http://tavernsproject.com/Five historians are blogging about their research in different eras and locations. The project "looks at how public space...
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Personal Space and Beach Volleyball
A recent article in The Atlantic raises many key points in just a few short paragraphs. Not surprisingly, the author darts between culture, law, custom, and activism leaving them all...
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