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Discussion of online misogyny and how to deal with it.

One of the questions I received was about Misogyny in Japan and how it compares to the USA. First of all, Japan is not like China. I've heard that there are still communities in China that kill female offspring like they did hundreds of years ago.

A modern viewing of the Disney film Dumbo reveals all the prejudices held by the producers of this 1940s animated flick. This article details various instances of racism, misogyny, and animal abuse as depicted in the film.

Mitt Romney's latest attack ad singles out Hillary Clinton for a blistering attack. Romney, inculcated in the deeply sexist Mormon culture, seems to deny Clinton's humanity on the basis of her gender.

Hip-Hop is the epitome of a young, urban progressive America endowed with talent, intelligence and influence. Hip-Hop is also the mask behind the darkness of a culture that glorifies misogyny and crime.

For those that felt the last episode of season three left some questions to be answered, the insights creator Shonda Rhimes provides are a disturbing indication of how far off course Grey's Anatomy has traveled.

As an avid reader and a professional writer, I cringe when I hear people protest when offered a book. In an effort to alter the mindset of these reluctant readers, I'm setting down this list of books for readers who are too cool to read.

Russell Simmons, hip hop and rap mogul and co-founder of Def Jam records, released a statement on Monday calling for rap artists and labels to completely and consistently edit out sexist and racist language from "clean" versions of songs.

Silencing dissonant voices helps no one.

The Riot Grrrl community first surfaced in Washington D.C. in 1991. Kathleen Hanna, the poster child for riot grrrl and front woman of numerous bands, did not know what she was creating when she came up with the motto "Revolution Girl-Style Now!"

This album brings to mind grown-ups, suits, elegant cars and cigars. It's an adult album and those not mature enough will not be able to appreciate it.

This album is a disappointment with exactly 2 tracks that save it from being total, utter garbage.

I question the standard premise that Richard Brooks' 1960 film "Elmer Gantry" portrayed a cynical, sexually-obsessed huckster, arguing for a fresh appraisal of what this character represents, refuting the notion that Gantry represented an assault on religious sanctity.

Now in its seventh year, Da Capo's ground-breaking "Best Music Writing" series continues to open the door to a world of music, presenting essays, interviews and reviews that run the gamut of musical styles.

Many men used the Carpe Diem tradition to persuade women to submit to male desires. In section 61 of the poem, the speaker, a man, is addressing a woman with whom he is romantically involved in an effort to persuade her, after she has already refused, to sleep with him.

A short review looking back at Martin Amis 1984 novel 'Money' and considering its relevance today.

This film, starring Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel, speaks mainly to men with daddy issues and a savior complex.

Literary theory on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling.

For more than 50 years, James Bond has captured the imaginations of men world wide, and is one of the most recognizable figures in pop-culture today. This paper explores how James Bond has changed over the years.

In the past eight years, radio station formats have become homogenized. Much of this can be attributed to the Telecommunications Act of 1996; local and independent-label musicians are denied access to broadcast airtime.

blended reviews of John Legend's "Get Lifted" and "Soul Sessions vol. 1: Live at the Knitting Factory" CDs.

Set aside an afternoon for this one.

Teenagers may be the most difficult people to buy for, in part, because sometimes the requests are objectionable; a gangsta rap CD? No! So, here are some gifts that every mom or dad will want their fresh, young teen to have.

A small town politician decided to change his name to Andrew Jackson Griffith to facilitate his chances of getting elected sheriff. Only in America would a lawsuit be allowed by a famous person challenging another person's right to do this.

Has the feminist movement all been for naught? Why are so many supposedly liberated women ready to step back into a sole breadwinner relationship?

"In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture" (Benedict).

A murder mystery brings together a private eye, a struggling actress, and a thief masquerading as an actor.

Lou Diamond Phillips, the actor best known for his role in the movie �La Bamba', was recently arrested for domestic violence.

Books by the above authors compared for a feminist in literature college level course. B+ was the grade for this paper.

How two former sinners are saving souls on the web.

"The Big heat" exemplifies the development of the ati-hero in film noir and gives rise to the concept of flawed characters with good, sometimes, intentions.

This article is a quick rundown of the characters that create the show "Family Guy"

Psychoanalysis's true strength lies deeper than its simple ability to analyze literature; instead, it is psychoanalysis's ability to inspire a greater consciousness among people which is admirab

One of the most frustrating aspects of understanding sweatshops is how they came to exist in globalization.This brought scholar Ellen Israel Rosen to what may be the most accessible, but also thorough book on a modern history of sweatshops.

This research paper delves deeply into the possibility that Jonathan Swift predicted the Freudian psychological device of sublimation when he wrote of Gulliver's Travels.

From its beginnings, the film industry generally excluded women from the film-making process.

I could grow to a 102 and I'd still be hearing news about the kids getting high off household products. How long have mothballs been around?

This is an article about the present state of rapp music. The question that many fans are asking is , are artists' trading in their integrity and creativity for the almighty dollar?

Traces links between the development of human sexuality and the evolution of modern capitalist and democratic society. Applies Giddens' text to a number of nineteenth and twentieth century American novels.

This is a brief history of Islam and its spread through the Asian continent.

An analysis of three movements for social change in 20th century America: the Progressive movement, the New Deal labor movement, and the Civil Rights movement.

The rake is easily identified in English literature by his free and frank manner of speaking, of achieving conquest over a number of women, and of being charming as well as devilish.

Throughout the '60s and '70s were screened all manner of horrifying motion pictures promising the lurid and graphic depictions of violence, torture and rape. If they got ratings at all they were rated X.

Music critics said rap music wouldn't last. Record companies said it was too harsh and black-oriented. In twenty years, rap music has grown from its street beginnings in Harlem and the South Bronx.

A research paper about a select group of poems by Philip Larkin.

Much attention has been given lately to Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus. Controversy exists over whether or not she may have actually been the wife of Jesus

"...in more than thirty-five animated features Disney has released...there is scarcely a mention of God as conceived in the Christian and Jewish faiths shared by most people of the Western world and many beyond.

Ways in which women are "superior" to men and some areas in which they are not, levels of intellience, "grey matter", the role of hormones estrogen and testosterone, some sports records.