Blogging Gender

marjorie says...

On the number of women of color in fashion spreads: ZERO
From Jezebel via Racialicious

"“Intern Maria did the tireless work of looking for black models, Asian models and models of any color but white in the December issues of the major women’s fashion magazines. She writes, “Surprise! There were no women of color in ANY fashion spread”


On Fat-Shaming as a way to keep women in line
From Feministing (which has a social network site in the works)

"fat-shaming is designed to keep women in line — and not just the woman who’s the target of the shaming. It sends a message to other women that unless they conform, they’re next. And so, unless they’re very secure, they spend a lot of time and energy worrying about how they’re going to avoid being next (which they can never do, because that’s the whole point of shaming, to take up your time and energy on an endless quest to meet a moving target)."


On Marriage being restricted to Hetero's, in response to Mike Huckabee's statement that there's never been a society that rewrote the rules of marriage and survived.
From Devilstower at Daily Kos

"The truth is that every society rewrites the rules of marriage and family. That's what happens to all our social values as they respond to changes in how we live, what we know, and our available resources. Yes, friction occurs when the boundaries of a social convention no longer match those of a society in which it's embedded, but the societies that survive are exactly those which demonstrate the flexibility to change and adapt."