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I’m back

By ~LS~ On February 25, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Generations, Pop Culture, Technology, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Age, Blogging, Generations, Hillary, Technoculture, Voxygen

I’m waiting for Typekit to populate/propagate my font. I’m using Cooper. It’s been some time since I’ve blogged. There’s so much to say I don’t know where to begin. I’ll just chalk it up to a lost and found year. The font makes the webdesign. I have to finish rebooting things here.

As always, the design reflects things about my life too numerous to go into. For instance, I tried to de-clutter and get things squared away into a single-file simple column. I failed. However, things did get shoved to the bottom, all linky and soldier-like, messy in an orderly fashion, but overwhelming from a big-picture perspective.

The Sells-Jaros household is now just the Sells household. The Jaros household will be a household with someone else. Quite surreal. The Sells household is also without the beloved Pach Du. That was a devastation too great to be accounted for – [...]

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Another reason to like Hillary

By ~LS~ On September 18, 2010 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Gender, Generations, Hillary, Politics, Sexism, Speech, Television

Nonverbal communication expresses power and dominance. In public, professional settings, who gets to touch whom and the nature of that touch plays out and defines gender relations. Because it’s typically subtle, people are often unaware of this dynamic. When it’s more obvious, those who are in the “one down” position see it clearly and those in the position of power remain oblivious as part of their sense of entitlement. The stereotypical male boss/female secretary and male customer/female waitress interactions illustrate this over and over again. However, as gender roles change, the accompanying nonverbal behaviors change with them. Hillary is the perfect example.

This clip from Mad Men illustrates my point (see :40 – :50). Mad Men is a wonderful show to use for examples like this because it does such a good job of capturing the cultural milieu of the 50s and 60s [...]

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Maslow’s Hierarchy

By ~LS~ On August 24, 2010 · Add Comment · In Humor, Pop Culture, Technology and tagged Tagged With: Facebook, Geek, Geek Cartoons, Silliness, Speech, Teaching

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Allie Beckstrom is my hero

By ~LS~ On May 26, 2010 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Generations, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Books, Feminism, Geek, Gender, Pop Culture

Paranormal fiction and urban fantasy books are plentiful these days and a large portion of them are vapid. There are exceptions, of course, as with any genre, but on the whole, the works of Laurell K. Hamilton and Stephanie Meyers are representative of “teh stupid” that is paranormal fiction.

Shows such as Buffy, Charmed, and So Weird made common the kick-ass female main character in paranormal or urban fantasy and opened the door for this genre’s expanding popularity. The burgeoning teen fiction/young adult market, born with the huge demographic hump of Gen Y, cemented gothy vampy werewolfy witchy faery stories as a permanent fixture at Barnes and Nobles. So despite the stupidity of paranormal fiction’s lowest common denominator, its frequent strength is an empowerment of females. Well, except for Twilight, which reduces girls to 19th century passive, pining virgins awaiting their one true love. But let’s [...]

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Wannabe feminism

By ~LS~ On April 1, 2010 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Pop Culture, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Fashion/beauty, Feminism, Gender, Generations, Music, Politics, Pop Culture, Sex, Sexism

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Pornification

By ~LS~ On February 25, 2010 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Feminism, Generations, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Feminism, For Wordies, Generations, Pop Culture, Rape, Sex, Sexism

Recently on WMST-L, the Women’s Studies discussion list, someone posted a call for papers about porn culture. The call was clearly anti-porn and the posting provoked a brief but rapid pro-/anti-porn debate before the moderator shut it down for being inappropriate to the mission of the list. Those old issues from the feminist sex wars still prickle at us feminists and I’m predictably on the fence about porn. I content myself to remember the title of the book, Pleasure and Danger, because porn is both those things, a crucial point about sex that we should always remember.

But one thing that does bother me is the pornification of consumer culture. I mean this in a different way than the typical use of the term as a comment on the how advertising borrows heavily from porn’s tropes and porn itself has infiltrated every aspect of popular culture. I’m [...]

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