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Original Technorati articles tagged “gender roles”

• in Technorati Women
  How One Woman Has Set Gender Equality Back Decades
  As if equality is not hard enough for women, we now have other women telling us we are not feminine enough.
  by kimmybabe74 / on Nov 30, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  The Stay-At-Home-Dad: Superhero or Psychopath? Depends Who You Ask
  Are women the only ones who can adequately parent children?
  by samkj27 / on Oct 25, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “gender roles”

 

• Gender, power, and m/m romance

  
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  [ NOTE : I originally posted a shorter version of this post a while back at my now-defunct personal blog. Robins post on gender and power raised the question of how these issues play out in m/m, so it seemed worth bringing it to Dear Author for discussion.]   If I hear one more time that readers turn to the m/m ...
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• Body Hair

  
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  by Kelly Ann Several weeks ago I had the following somewhat awkward maybe minute conversation at a game night with some single Mormon friends: Guy [to three girls present]: Do you think chest hair is attractive on men or not? [After dead silence] – Me [knowing this will stir more tension]: I like it. [Followed ...
  23 hours ago

• Totally Unscientific Thoughts on Gender

  
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  I’m afraid some of what I’m about to say will sound ignorant or offensive but I’m going to write this anyway.  I have two little kids at home and I’m afraid they are showing me how gender can dictate behavior, preferences, and development.  But this is an idea I loathe.  The belief that one gender is ...
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• Blondie on Her Sexual Beginnings

  
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  enhanced-buzz-3441-1370971579-10.jpg In her memoir Blondie: Parallel Lives , Debbie Harry shares a story about her sexual beginnings. When she was 11, her family was on vacation in Cape Cod. A young Harry would put on lipstick with her cousin and go out about town—without her parents knowing. ...
  5 days ago

• Why more female protagonists are needed in video games

  
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  On slate : The hardware is getting better, but the gaming world is still as sexist as ever. That was the takeaway from E3 2013, the video game industry’s biggest annual convention. First, feminist blogger Anita Sarkeesian observed that none of the Xbox One’s launch games have a female protagonist, and ...
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• I Had No Idea My Beloved Rainbow Bright And Strawberry Shortcake Got So Sexified

  
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  I know there was a lot of backlash over the recent sexualization of  Merida , the princess in Disney’s  Brave .  Parents signed petitions, wrote blog posts, and even got the creator to say how disappointed she was with the changes.  But there’s one thing I need to know:  where were these people to help  ...
  6 days ago

• “Getting Spanked As Needed:” I Just Discovered Christian Domestic Discipline and It Makes Me Very Uncomfortable

  
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  Jesus (pun intended). On xojane : A young, recently married woman was asking for advice about her relationship with her new husband. He has started spanking her if she “misbehaves, says something wrong, does something wrong, [or] hurts him in any way.” He will often continue until she cries, exhibits jealous ...
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• Single Dads & Single Moms Suffer at Work: Non-Traditional Roles May Incite Workplace Bias

  
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  New research reads like a tract from the hidebound 1950s, not the 21st Century. But in a series of new studies, University of Toronto researchers have found that as workers expand from traditional non-work related roles, the workplace proves a negative environment. Investigators discovered that middle-class men who ...
  6 days ago

• Rural women’s advocate wins [Australia] Queen’s Birthday gong [honors]

  
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  Times News Service – Times of Oman - Wednesday, 12 June 2013 (originally published 09 Jun) Muscat: Former Indian top cop, Kiran Bedi, would be coming to Oman for the first Oman Extraordinary Women Conference 2013. The two-day conference would begin from June 24 in Muscat. Kiran Bedi would take her place among other ...
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• "Queer is Hardly Just Who You Sleep With": Q&A with Masha Tupitsyn

  
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• Am I Going To Hell For This?

  
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  Filed under: Ex-Mormon Stories , Womens Issues Tagged: Baptism , Beliefs , Cognitive Dissonance , Equality , Ex-Mormons , Feminism , Gender Roles , LDS Church , Mormonism , Mother , Taylor Good , Wife , Women , Word of Wisdom
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• 6 Classic Toys That Have Made the Switch to Pink

  
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  Can you imagine a time when boys and girls wore the same clothes and pink and blue werent even available in the baby section of a store? According to a new book, Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys From the Girls in America ($25), it wasnt that long ago that parents dressed their little ones in white (it was considered ...
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• Or a Kilt

  
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  From LGBT Equality World Wide
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• Traditional farming practices and the evolution of gender norms across the globe

  
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  By Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, and Nathan Nunn The gender division of labor varies significantly across societies. In particular, there are large differences in the extent to which women participate in activities outside of the home. For instance, in 2000, the share of women aged 15 to 64 in the labor force ...
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• Bullish Life: Why We Should Take The Gender Stereotypes Out Of Weddings (And Marriage)

  
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  When I went to the prom, my date pulled out my chair and opened all the doors for me, which is not how I want to live my life, but was cute because we were kids at the prom. More » Bullish Life: Why We Should Take The Gender Stereotypes Out Of Weddings (And Marriage) is a post from TheGloss - Get the best ...
  2 weeks ago

• Women Apparently Really Enjoy Sex, According To Controversial New Book

  
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  In his new book What Do Women Want? journalist Daniel Bergner explores society’s near-total lack of understanding of female sexuality, making the argument (a welcome one, at that) that most cultures simply ignore what researchers have shown time and time again: that everything we tell ourselves about the male sex ...
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• Erick Ericksons fantasy world-building

  
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  The writers website I frequent-- AbsoluteWrite  (AW)--has a huge variety of forums for pretty much every genre of writing under the sun. For instance, there is a forum specifically for writers of erotica , as well as one for people doing historical writing --fiction and non-fiction, and many, many others. Included, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Monday feminist roundup (3rd June 2013)

  
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  This week’s (particularly sarcastic) feminist round-up. - Here are some new, women-created comics that are worth looking into (bitchmagazine). - Also from bitchmagazine, there’s a petition to the Pope about the 22-year-old in El Salvador who has been denied an abortion even though it means that both she and ...
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• Role Reversal: 40% of Women Serve As the Primary “Breadwinner” For Their Households

  
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  An estimated 40% of women serve as the primary supplier for their households and more women are raising their children in single-parent households.
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• [round-up] Erm, Friday feminist round-up (31st May 2013)

  
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  I was away all of the bank holiday weekend, and slammed at work before that, so Monday’s feminist round-up is today instead. Here we are: - What happened in Ireland some months ago is happening in El Salvador now. A woman, whose foetus has no chance of survival, is not allowed to abort. It is likely that they will ...
  2 weeks ago

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