April 10th, 2013

Recommended Reading #144: Questioning the System(s), Pt. IV



      “Same-Sex Marriage Does Threaten ‘Traditional’ Marriage” at Nursing Clio (Gender Socialization, Sex and Culture, Marriage) 4/2/13

I love this. I agree with it entirely, though I don’t think I had necessarily realized or articulated it that way before I read this. It does seem, however, congruent with something I’ve noticed for some time, which is that whenever someone talks about wanting marriage to be “between one man and one woman,” it is phrased as just that. Have you ever heard someone claim marriage to appropriately be “between one woman and one man”? Not only have I not, I truly suspect it would, at the very least, elicit pause or a strange look if said. That may seem tiny, perhaps even innocuous, but I see it as not. I see it as representative—a subtle indication via language of a pernicious philosophy that seems so “normal” to us that most of us are oblivious to it at least some of the time.

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      “Rejecting Walmart Strategy, Trader Joe’s Pays Employees A Living Wage And Wins” by Lorraine Devon Wilke (Non-Sex-Related, Labor, Economics) 3/25/13

This makes me glad I’ve been a long-time customer of Trader Joe’s, but even more so, I am glad to see companies embodying this kind of philosophy, and I appreciate seeing it publicized when they do (or don’t).

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      “Knock Knock” by Daniel Beaty (Recommended Watch, Non-Sex-Related, Race, Sociology) 11/19/09

This took my breath away.

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