November 19th, 2007 · Comments Off
IHT, In Japan, it’s the men who want to be skinny and cute:
“Both Shirakawa and his girlfriend like the fact that she weighs more than he does, and is the leader of the couple. “She’s a lot stronger than I am, can lift heavy things and go drinking until dawn. I admire that about her, and feel protected when I’m around her,” he said. Older than he by five years, it was Shirakawa’s girlfriend who made the approach, started the dating process and decided what course their relationship would take.
“Frankly, I think women should be in the driver’s seat. Society and relationships work better that way,” he said. Shirakawa likes to wear his girlfriend’s clothes and often shows up for work wearing her blouse and jeans, to the general approval of his co-workers.
Hirayama said: “For young men, wearing women’s clothes has almost become a status symbol - a confirmation of being slim and pretty and, therefore, desirable. Young women, on the other hand, are less interested now in looking beautiful for the benefit of young men. They dress up for themselves, for their own satisfaction.”"
Tags: fashion,gender,japan,sexuality,trend
August 25th, 2007 · Comments Off
Slate V:
“A Magnum photo essay. During his coverage of the fall of Afghanistan’s Taliban regime in 2002, photographer Thomas Dworzak discovered a stash of pictures showing male Taliban members in curious, effeminate poses.”
Tags: afghanistan,gender,homosexuality,islam,photography,taliban
August 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off
TierneyLab: “No, it’s not 50 percent, as I’ll explain shortly.” (via)
Tags: biology,evolution,gender,history
June 14th, 2007 · Comments Off
Jolande Withuis: “Moslimaterrorisme – dit nieuwe woord zal velen in de oren klinken als een contradictio in terminis. Dat is ten onrechte, en gevaarlijk naïef. De gangbare associatie van vrouwen met vreedzaamheid en harmonie is een fabeltje. Het is weliswaar vrij zeldzaam dat vrouwen terroristische aanslagen plegen, maar onbekend is het verschijnsel niet.” (via)
Tags: feminism,gender,terrorism
April 19th, 2007 · Comments Off
The Gender Genie voorspelt de sekse van de schrijver op basis van tekstanalyse; en haalde zojuist een score van 10 uit 10 in mijn steekproefje. (Via l-rs.org.)
Tags: gender,language
April 27th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“kids who spend more time watching television also eat more of the calorie-dense, low-nutrient foods advertised on television. “
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Artists from the six FIFA Confederations have contributed their works to the Edition. An open as well as a signed, numbered edition is available.
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“From 1934 towards the end of the sixties, the French Ministry for Tourism employed full-time PR photographers to snap “celebrities” travelling by Air France.”
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“The photographs in The Course Of History are landscapes of the worst killing fields of Europe, of battles that were turning points in our history, defining our future.”
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“Volgens de bond moeten consumenten eerst bij zichzelf te rade gaan wat ze nu hebben, of ze daar tevreden over zijn en dan pas bedenken wat ze eigenlijk nodig denken te hebben.”
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Atelier van Lieshout is kampioen
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“”But under the water where nobody can see it, it’s no longer a German river, at least not in the biological sense. It’s an international river.”"
Tags: adidas,advertising,art,children,cross dressing,europe,gender,health,iptv,kunstbeeld,photography,tibet,tv,video,war,world cup
