Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Hereafter: Nonchalance and Gender

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As the credits scrolled across the screen and the lights grew slightly brighter in the theater, my friend Becky turned to me in her seat and...

Forgetting Sarah Marshall Film Review

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For my film review I chose to do a romantic comedy called “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”. The movie to me reflects a lot on how society expe...
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My favorite blogs

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Mark Anthony Neal's blog http://newblackman.blogspot.com/ The blog of a married, heterosexual guy who happens to be transgender http://w...

Tongues Untied (1989)

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Tongues Untied is about difference and diversity. The documentary was created in 1989 by Marlon Riggs to capture the voices of African Amer...

"Boys Don't Cry" Movie Review

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For my movie review, I chose the 1999 film, Boys Don’t Cry, a dramatized account of the rape and murder of Brandon Teena, played by Hilary S...

The (Real) Ugly Truth: Analyzing The Film "The Ugly Truth" And How It Reinforces The Idea Of Masculinity

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I chose this movie because it is one of my favorite movies and also one of the only “chick-flicks” that my male friends will watch. I have a...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Constructing and Deconstructing Masculinity in HBO's The Wire

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Some background info: The Wire is a series which ran on HBO from 2002-2008. It has been hailed as “the best show ever” by many media outlet...
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Monday, November 15, 2010

Pagent Boys???

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I was watching Good Morning America this morning and caught this segment. I thought it was pretty intresting and had to share! I would love ...
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Film Resources on Masculinity in Spanish

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I am looking for film resources in Spanish along the lines of the super films that the Media Education Foundation produces. Most of the fil...
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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Venus Boyz

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Venus Boyz was an interesting movie and gave insight into the world of FTM’s and Transmen. In society and culture, being a man or a woma...

Punch for Punch

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I'd been in the midst of thinking and reading about the issues we'd discussed in class: masculine aggression, competition, and viole...
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Transamerica Film Review

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Transamerica is a movie about Bree Osbourne who was formally Stanley Chupak, a very prim and proper pre-op male-to-female transsexual who ho...
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Call of Duty-Women in the Game

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Last night I was watching my boyfriend play the new XBox game "Call of Duty-Black Ops." He was playing the campaign mode which is ...
Saturday, November 13, 2010

When even our earplugs are gendered, you know there's a problem.

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(Click image for full size.) It's funny, but before my recent trip to Target, I always thought people all used earplugs for the same pur...
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Male-Pattern Violence

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Check out this link. This basically is a continuation from our last class discussion, however the author is not in our class. The most inter...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Women and Business Research.

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I intended to post this last week, but got sidetracked and forgot. My research is in women and business, and it's much more difficult to...

Revision of gender identity and gender expression discrimination

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Revision of UCF Non- Discrimination Affirmative Action Program The Revision of UCF Regulation 3.001, Non- Discrimination; Affirmative Action...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Encouraging a Critical Perspective Towards Gender Portrayals in Media

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I left tonight’s discussion thinking very heavily about the issues we talked about, and I felt a little disturbed that although we agreed th...
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This American Life and Masculinity at Summer Camp?

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Since we were talking about men in the military the other day, I thought I would share this episode of This American Life (109: Notes on Cam...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

male survivors get to meet oprah

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Tell your story, shatter the shame! I am proud of Oprah for opening her stage and audience to discuss men who have suffered sexual violence....
Saturday, November 6, 2010

Reporting on Diva Invasion

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Click this link to watch Diva Invasion “Diva Invasion: The event that brings you over the top,” was the slogan of last nights Diva Invasio...
Friday, November 5, 2010

La Mission Film Review

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La Mission Directed by Peter Bratt Sad, Riveting, Emotional, Funny. All the emotions I experienced while watching this movie. La Mission is ...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Sexual Harassment at Work (a personal account)

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Out of all the articles we read for this week the one of sexual harassment and masculinity really got to me on a personal level. I myself wo...

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I just thought I would share a basic summary of the workshop I went to last week, which mainly centered around a presentation from writer Ma...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

The Peter Meter

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The Peter Meter: gives new meaning to the old "let's get out a ruler and measure it" phrase. Relevant to this class, and some ...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

The military is the best example for how violence is built into masculinity

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trigger warning for discussion of rape and sexual assault.
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

daddy & papa (New Trailer)

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I mentioned in class this documentary. I found it very worth watching
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The War Between the Sexes

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Since I watched Venus Boys a few weeks ago, the words of one of the interviewees has been fermenting in my mind: "There really is a war...
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How to Loose a Guy in 10 Days

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My favorite types of movies are romantic comedies. As I was thinking about romantic comedies that relate to this class the movie, “How to Lo...

Early Comic Books and their Subjection of Women

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Anybody who gets to know me knows one thing about me: I'm a geek. I read comics, watch anime, and play video games. Since I have identif...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Jackson Katz on Linda McMahon

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So, Linda McMahon co-managed WWE with her husband Vince McMahon, and she is now currently running for CT state Senate. Jackson Katz wrote ab...

Yale Frat Pledges Chant “No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal”

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The Society Pages blog has recently been publishing quite a few stories on the overlap between frat culture, rape culture, the clearly unhea...

Black Masculinity

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Throughout all the different ideas that have been discussed on Masculinity, I have made the mistake of lumping all men into the same "...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

“You must be gay.” (On the bullying of pro-feminist men.)

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The other day I was involved in a conversation about what men can do to stop rape. One of the participants was a young university student wh...