Thursday, March 3, 2011

Tattoo The Male Penis

Advertisement "The King of the hood" in Campus Mag: Decision JDP


3 complaints were filed against advertising "King of the hood" in the free magazine for students "Campus Mag. She went to the JDP (Jury of Advertising Ethics) February 23, 2011, and have been rejected! read HERE ...

I taste particularly "More generally, the pose of the woman in underwear is similar to that used for other existing ads." (argument of society Pandora Corp. responsible for this advertising). And if the same approach was applied to advertising "y'a bon Banania" where would we be racist?! But who cares the woman does not deserve respect. Ben I'll buy my condoms elsewhere!

As to JDP (Jury of Advertising Ethics) evokes the Recommendation "sexual stereotyping, racial and social" from the ARPP (Professional Regulatory Authority Publicity): "Advertisements shall not reduce the human person, and especially women, the object function "... but believes that such advertising there is absolutely no violation: trust them!

can be seen that the state is complicit in this tolerance sexist, besides the open letter Bitches care to presidents, the Senate and National Assembly on sexist advertising .. . is unanswered for a year! The contempt for women's suits, but do not count on our discouragement.

reminder note made in December 2010 on my blog (then on canalblog) here

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Leroi Air Compressor Parts

Cronyism feminist Wednesday ...

>> On Wednesday ... is "free women" on RADIO Libertarian, from 18:30 to 20:30. this week with the Collective Nedjma Algerian-Ennes to discuss the situation in Algeria today, that of women and their claims. ..

• The program "Free Women" Wednesday is downloadable all week HERE

• The website
RL is HERE


>> 2 movies to see in movies:
- Winter's Bone (he has won awards!) Debra Granik ... see here
- The Choice Luna (I've seen is great), by Jasmila Zbanic ... see here


>> Proposals feminists around 8 March
- Paris here ...
- or actually in France here

>> Reminder: the event Saturday, March 5 at 2:30 p.m. departure from Paris Trocadero (court told "rights of man, women can brush »)... info on the site CNDF here, the demo is called March for Equality, freedom and dignity

>> It's good! item stripper on neurons of "fâââmes" good fun too! titled "These studies at the jerk who take us for connes" is decrypted by


>> An exhibition of the association "The Amazons" at La Villette (Paris 19) , whose objective is to build public "wear a different look on women with one breast. In our society, having a breast is taboo. There is a lack of representation of asymmetric body, whereas this difference affects hundreds of thousands of women. 90% of women who had ablation of a breast after cancer surgery are not curative. "Details of the expo and nice to see displays on the association website: http:/ / www.lesamazones.fr

>> Here is a link to a little movie released in the exhibition Women in Resistance currently presented in Roanne and is distributed around photos of the Walk World Women . Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ginet, photo journalist based in Roanne assiduously following the events Walk back and very nice pictures and videos ... see here ...

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Looking For A Job In A Strip Club As A Waitress

"From the 'Main Enemy' the main enemy" Leo Thiers-Vidal

I wanted to open the month of March the "month of women" (yes, I take the power to appoint and !)... with Leo Thiers-Vidal, a man deeply committed (read here ) what he wrote seems capital, rare, and uncompromising. This book is the fruit of his thesis (Ph.D., sociology), and his project: advancing the feminist analysis relationships between women and men in making a contribution by studying the position male lived.

(Today it is a text note, this blog has not want to talk ...)

I liked its simplicity (despite the technical passages, it is a thesis), because they share experiences, appreciated his empathy for women's willingness to report, do not tell us what we feel but to talk and analyze words, thoughts and deeds of men.

In life, I noticed that men often speak "in general" about sexism or feminism: wages, violence, women's suffrage, to be "feminine "... Very rarely, they do so from their own life / experience of man eg. differences in treatment between brother and sister they received, their difficulty in supporting a misogynist atmosphere (at the office, sports), the sharing of domestic work and free ...

Perhaps because theories seem more "interesting" or neutral in their eyes that day where everyone is involved, is involved: a small newspaper that large-scale, yet form a particularly oppressive of women ...


Excerpts ... (I bolded some passages)

• (p. 12 / preface Christine Delphy) ... "And this is what Thiers-Vidal will explain in a systematic way: in what areas of study of the gender system women are better armed, but also areas in which men have the advantage, or more accurately could have it. Because they are better equipped in some areas. But curiously, this is not where they could do better they choose to work; they choose to speak for feminists, and even the place of women, which would, according to P. Bourdieu, "too alienated by the oppression they suffer "(...).

• (p. 14 / preface Christine Delphy) "what interests Thiers-Vidal, this is not the dominance of men in work, politics, etc.. all things thoroughly documented by feminist literature. What interests him is what the men in this top position in their daily interactions with women. "

• (p 19)" What has become to me is that the choice to grant importance to the specific experience that is the production of a thesis on gender relations, as a man heterosexual white wishing to contribute to the abolition of these reports , led me to enjoy this production as an experiment, a journey - as mention the title "From the 'Main Enemy' the main enemy" before being a disembodied narrative retrospectively ".

• (p 25)" The questioning of his own power and practices towards women was quickly and easily equated with self-flagellation, a lack of sense of self, a willingness to please the feminist friends, etc.. It was as if men were not so sincere and voluntary act on their privileged status in order to partially transform to a less oppressive practice, to another power relationship towards women. I noticed also that a very different speech was de rigueur when it was not gender relations but of racism or economic liberalism, probably because of the closeness and intimacy of power relations between women and men, especially heterosexual. "

• (p 39)" It seems to me that we find is a conceptual node of any political analysis: what relationship is there between an oppressive social structure and oppressive agents? How these two elements can they be designed simultaneously? "

• (p 41) "These are the relations of production, ie the fact that women produce in the family, which create non-value, non-payment , free from work. In other words, the family production unit, is the place to cancel the value of work done by women, whatever ... "

• (p 42) "farm household and personal dependency go together. As a group submitted to the actual production report, women constitute a class. as a class human beings destined by birth to enter this class, they constitute a caste. "

• (p 44)" In analyzing spontaneous, non-feminist women, as that class, subject to a denial of reality: when the social class of women is described as such, it no longer exists, it dissolves in its characteristics (prostitute, castrating mother, crone , wives can not).

• (p 47) "The application of materialist feminism leads the identification of collective interests, which is expressed by the notion of class sex, and identification of individual and collective male practices in the perpetuation and reinforcement of these competing interests. "

• (p 60) "Pornography shows how, why and against whom we must act sexually and institutionalized male supremacy, racial segregation as institutionalized white supremacy. As an institution it expresses and enacts the ideology of male superiority through biological eroticization of domination, hierarchy, violence and sexism, to the point that the hierarchy is a necessary component of male sexuality. 'Once you have sexualized inequality, once it is learned and internalized prior to arousal and sexual gratification, then anything is possible. "

• (p 89 ) "reading and appropriation of radical feminist theories require constant vigilance vis-à-vis its own mechanisms of emotional and intellectual defense of male privilege.

• (p 91) "We [men] have the habit, especially intellectually, of ourselves as independent producers of ideas, concepts, analysis interesting ' ; to innovate, create and be in the foreground. The failure to engage on that front, as intellectuals, can be a practical application of the abandonment of some male privilege, which forced to consider centrally analyzes other, feminists, and work according to what they have developed. (...) It may seem obvious when moving axis of power: think we as humans or white bosses / Bourgeois have many interesting things to learn, respectively, to humans or black workers conscientized? (...) Would it not be better to fight analysis and leading practices based correctly on the intellectual work done by the dominated es and concentrating our efforts on creating a report internal force to the social group oppressor? The use of privileged social positions against the rulers would also perform a work of undermining and division within the social group oppressor. "

• (p 98) "What's oppression is conceived as a monopoly of weapons and tools, domestic labor exploitation, ownership of the body or the domestication and exploitation of reproduction, it is always the result of the action of a social group (or members) to another social group (or members). What motivates oppression is the result of certain privileges material made possible by the free labor of others (domestic, sexual, reproductive), which substantially increases their quality of life and material wealth, and its own power, his control over the lives of others. From this perspective, the socialization of human kind can be analyzed, not as a learning of stereotypical gender roles more or less rich and fulfilling, but as learning the techniques of subjugation of human females to male humans, and training of human females at work and free submission to male humans. "

• (p 118)" But this can aware of reports of women oppression gender and their conceptual and material strength is made extremely difficult by the effects of psychic reports of oppression by the physical and mental work more important that they are forced to perform in a society marked by gender oppression: whether the double workday, the work of rearing children, psychological work, conversational service men, all have a psychological impact alienating and debilitating for women, significantly limiting their scope of thought and action (Nicole-Claude Mathieu); more aware of the invasion and the unaware of women by their objective situation of dependence on men and the type of structuring of the self that emerges is one more obstacle in an awareness of self and lucid share of women over the mixed permanent imposed unequal men to women, the pervasiveness of men, creates a mediation of women's consciousness and makes it difficult to group consciousness and class (hence the strategy of not policy-mix characterizing the radical feminist movement).

• (p 146) "For their part, men know well that they dominate women ... and they are trained to do. They do not need to state constantly because we rarely talk about domination of what we already possess " (Wittig).
(...) It is important to mention that it is not easy receive the statement 'men are well aware that they dominate women' - in particular the reference to domination acted intentionally ... How can we fully understand these statements while the majority of men live as ethical beings, a minimum anxious not to be / seem unfair to others? ... How understand that humans could be experienced as having a sense of ethics while being particularly aware of dominating other humans? ...

• (p 159) "If men who adopt an anti-masculinist theory disembodied among others are motivated by the fact improve their own well-being through the struggle against alienation men considered source of pain, emotional isolation, communication impoverished, those who try to adopt an anti-masculinist position incarnate are rather motivated by a desire for justice (Stoltenberg) and / or rejection of injustice. This can in turn be powered by having personally experienced - as witness affected or as a direct victim - male domestic violence or public: paternal violence, domestic, institutional, heterosexual. This personal experience helped in one way or another, these men problematize their identification with masculinity as the source of the positive sense of self: the violence of a father, suffering and strength of a mother or a sister, the feminist struggle of a girlfriend on the one hand, given incomplete rupture empathetic with members of oppressed social group and also made the report to the conflict itself and male peers. When these men are adopting a progressive feminist reading of a rack radical, they can reorganize the way they perceive these experiences with a structural framework and policy. (...)
The effective capacity of women to transform reality by imposing collective power relations and individual public and private against men has created and continues to create innovative environments experienced men and what, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. These contexts experienced encourage these men to doubt, to question and try to understand what previously seemed self-evident, therefore, to seek interpretations of the data and analysis that can answer their questions. (...)"

... I want to quote a lot more but I will "return" to the original o) ...

"From the 'Main Enemy' the main enemy. Position lived, subjectivity and consciousness of male domination, " Leo Thiers-Vidal, ed. Harmattan, 374 pages, 33 euros (October 2010), ISBN 978-2-296-13043-2.

- Presentation of the book site Editor HERE

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Toddler Thirsty And Hungry

An attempt against the invasion advertising

You feel oppressed, invaded, smothered by the posters? Luckily, we ask for your opinion!
You have until March 11 to express yourself about new measures by the government to reform the billboard, a regulation that is expected by the Minister for Ecology Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, " stop slow degradation of our urban landscapes and suburban .
Last September I remembered that the Grenelle II had created a text (a key measure as they say!) which proposed new regulations in order to limit outdoor advertising. The implementing decree is now under investigation public language of people who speak the language of ordinary people that means the French can give their opinion on the website of the Ministry of Sustainable Development .

This decree provides for new rules at national level: surface and height of the panels, density, power consumption and light pollution have been reconsidered for each advertising medium used on public roads. What to update the current scheme based largely on Act of December 29, 1979 .
The communes and municipalities will also have the opportunity to develop local advertising regulations more restrictive than the national regulation, which will also be subjected to public inquiry. Thus, a local regulation is expected in the city of Paris with a target reduction of 30% density advertising:
- simplified zoning removing all areas of advertising increased. Paris area will now be restricted or prohibited advertising
- reduced format advertising posters with a maximum height of 8m ² (which implies a ban on panels 4 × 3!)
- Restrictions on advertising Light and advertising on vehicles (the car ended wraps?)
...

But these provisions, which must be passed by July 2011 made conscious, which Dottelonde Stéphane, President of the Union of outdoor advertising who voted against it. According to him the mayor of Paris did not measure "the economic, social and financial restrictions" because the city collects taxes for local outdoor advertising, fees and road tax.
In contrast, the Collective of debunkers and the combination PER (Resistance to aggression advertising) believe that the decree is generally "negative" in that, alongside measures, it endorses practices that hitherto were not allowed, like advertising on the tarps that cover buildings under renovation. " (read press release )



The project is it dangerous for city revenues and advertisers will see supply display diminish, or otherwise confined there to tokenism? hard to decide when it is connecting but I tend to think that the idea that each city can develop regulations Local makes sense!
Because the text seems to completely ignore the so-called street furniture that nicely completely disfigured city centers including the docks of Bordeaux (though recently renovated) and the place where billboards Quinconces pushed like mushrooms in cities: dozens are lined up, all bearing the same poster.


Sequovia As they settled: the measures are too weak to stop the decline in advertising and display all goes, they estimate that between the television, the radio and newspapers, the usefulness of outdoor advertising is greatly reduced (see article ).
And you, that What do you think? Go your say on the website of the Ministry of Sustainable Development!