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By tjoyce1288 • 15 years ago

Do Americans Care More About Dogs Than Women?

The NFL season started last weekand recaptured the attention of the American people.  The NFL is clearly the most popular sport in America, and this week, its most talked about player this year, Michael Vick was placed on the active roster for the Philadelphia Eagles, and he is eligible to play in week 3. 

Michael Vick is clearly the most controversial player to enter the NFL due to his conviction for dog fighting two years ago.  The thoughts of protest and boos, debates of whether he should play or be suspend have consumed the sports world for a while now.  Maybe we find his crime so disturbing because we are not used to stories of the torture of animals and dogfighting making the front page of newspapers, or maybe it is because we can’t envision someone we cheered for doing something so terrible, or most likely we can’t imagine the mind set of someone who would do something so terrible. 

While Vick’s crime was shocking other NFL players and other sports atheletes do terrible things.  NFL player Brandon Marshell has repeatedly been accused of domestic violence, but if he does it one more time then he gets a four game suspension.  However, no body is protesting whether or not Brandon Marshell should be allowed to play or should have to work with his community to repair his image.  Fighting dogs and torturing living animals is terrible(clearly an understatement), but domestic violence is often ...
By tjoyce1288 • 15 years ago

The Rise of Cougar Culture

I was recently flipping through a GQ magazine from a few months ago, and there was an article about how to attract a cougar,which is a women above the age of 35 who appeals to men in their early to mid 20s. The cover of the magazine stated “A field guide to the American Cougar: She’s not getting older, she’s getting hornier.” GQ is clearly not the first to celebrate the virtues of the “cougar,” I remember first hearing it in the movie American Pie, which popularized the term M.I.L.F. Now this may not seem different from a Mrs. Robinson type character, which has been part of American culture for decades. However, with a reality ...

I was recently flipping through a GQ magazine from a few months ago, and there was an article about how to attract a cougar,which is a women above the age of 35 who appeals to men in ...
By tjoyce1288 • 15 years ago

Misogyny Takes Center Court

This week is the Wimbledon tennis tournament and the coverage spans three channels and numerous hours. There are a few courts at Wimbledon, including a center court. Recently charges have been levied against the tennis tournament of putting a majority of the most attractive female tennis players on center court, while more competitive matches and better skilled players are relegated to lesser courts. Now misogyny and women’s sports are not new, but women’s tennis is different. Women’s tennis is not like the LPGA or the WNBA, it is popular and sometimes more popular then men’s tennis. However, there is an active push within the tennis community to tone down the masculinity of women’s tennis. ...

This week is the Wimbledon tennis tournament and the coverage spans three channels and numerous hours. There are a few courts at Wimbledon, including a center court. Recently charges have been levied against the tennis ...
By tjoyce1288 • 15 years ago

False Prophets: The Myth of the Suicide Girls

I am not a big fan of fiction, so when I was recently at a store with “a million books” I went straight to the cultural studies sections, particularly the women and gender studies section. In the women and gender studies section was a collection of photographs from the website of the Suicide Girls. For those unfamiliar with Suicide Girls it is a punk version of Playboy, where women with tattoos and Mohawks pose nude.
My problem with this is that the book claims to be “redefining beauty.” The collection of photographs asserts that these women are rebelling against the “blonde” norm that Playboy puts forth. These claims are infuriating because they are overtly false. ...

I am not a big fan of fiction, so when I was recently at a store with “a million books” I went straight to the cultural studies sections, particularly the women and gender studies section. In ...
By tjoyce1288 • 15 years ago

Where is the Line: Male Nudity in Nebraska

At 11:20 a.m. on June 14th 2009 a show on ESPN ran a segment that has stirred very little reaction or outrage. In between SportsCenter repeats was a story about to male wrestlers at the University of Nebraska who were dismissed for posing nude on a gay website. As a result of their softcore, that is pictures of just them posing nude not of hardcore sex, they were dismissed from the team. The situational morality of the school, and their fundamentalist Christian/ Republican Congressmen athletic director Tom Osborne, asserts that it is fine to break the law, but two men posing nude is outrageous! The school, which is not forthcoming with information on its reasons for ...

At 11:20 a.m. on June 14th 2009 a show on ESPN ran a segment that has stirred very little reaction or outrage. In between SportsCenter repeats was a story about to male wrestlers at the University ...