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I have researched the links between body image, mass media, dieting, eating disorders, and body dissatisfaction for many years. I first became interested in the topic after reading Naomi Wolf’s best-seller The Beauty Myth, in which Wolf claimed that images of thin women in the mass media caused, or at least contributed to, eating disorders Continue reading A Closer Look at the Famous Fiji “TV Causes Anorexia” Study Perth researcher, teacher, and SheThought contributor Kylie Sturgess is quoted (and SheThought given a shout out!) in a new article on women and superstition in the Australian National Times: Are women really more likely than men to believe in the paranormal? You’d certainly think so if you were to go by what’s on the female-oriented Continue reading Do I (and all women) WANT to Believe??
Ok, so this week, I am filling in for Sophie, from “Sex and Science”. So, in her honor, I thought I’d kick it with a post about sex. Dictyostelium discoideum (from Dan Rhoads at Bitesizebio.com) So, if you strip away the boring plumbing aspect of it, sex is, Continue reading Dictyostelium discoideum is pretty cool… Picture from Duncan Riley from the Inquisitr. Yesterday was the presentation of the case to the 9th circuit. Now, it’s not the full 9th circuit, which means that whatever these three judges decide, they may well have to reconvene with the rest of the 9th circuit if whoever loses this round decides to appeal. Continue reading The Long Road to a Final Opinion on Prop 8 The culture of my parents was unfortunately bigoted, authoritarian and incurious. My parents were informed by family tradition and a rigidly patriarchal interpretation of religious dogma. They felt that however the Europeans abused the indigenous Americans was fine because we are God’s chosen people. The brown-skinned people were a hindrance to Manifest Destiny. The Continue reading I’m Thankful for Being a Girl I hate being touched when I am not expecting it and when I haven’t, somehow, given permission. Although, I’m the first to admit that there are exceptions to that. For example, a stranger isn’t someone I want to have touch me, but there are those who I want to have touch me, even if Continue reading No Touchy! Today, Oct. 11, is National Coming Out Day for LGBTQ, tomorrow is National Atheist Coming Out Day. I have a lot of admiration for the reasoning behind these days — the more people realize that they know people who are different from them, the less different those people are going to seem. If Continue reading Coming Out Day Why can’t women just have a standard ‘business garb’ like men Continue reading The Empress Has No Clothes |
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