Feminism
Flying Saucers Over Istanbul
Essay with many still photos here.
IMDB page.
Another short clip here via Facebook.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 12, 2019 -
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Category: Feminism, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Robots, 1950s
Adolph Heilborn’s Theories on Women
I can learn little personally about Adolf Heilborn (1873-1941). But his book THE OPPOSITE SEXES caused a bit of a stir when it appeared in 1927, given that he described the female human as the missing link between ape and male human. Naturally, there was, um, a little pushback.
Original article here.
Here is the bio of his opponent.
But maybe it was all a joke! If this bookplate belongs to the same fellow, we can see he had a sense of humor.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 26, 2016 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, Feminism, Forgotten Figures and Where Are They Now?, Science, Anthropology, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1920s, Men, Women
Wailing, Sobbing, Shrieking Performance Art
Let me know when you bail!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 23, 2015 -
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Category: Feminism, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde, Women
How to Cook Husbands
Alas, I wanted this 1898 book to be a tract by an angry feminist cannibal, but it is not--as you can see for yourself, if you go here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 22, 2015 -
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Category: Cannibalism, Feminism, Food, Books, Nineteenth Century
Go! Push Pops
The Push Pops are a radical, transnational queer feminist artist collective. Geared toward engendering ‘Embodied Feminism,’ the collective is primarily concerned with the expenditure and conservation of the self in relation to the Other. Employing the female body – that which is bound to a cross-cultural language of desire, signification and power – in tactical, ideological strategy, the Push Pops utilize gesture, exclamation and popular idiom to embody a new and discursive physicality. Neo-Dada, Fluxist and Feminist, their performance work posits the body as a danger to the operation of reason and male economy of lack. A wild leap, an elusive slogan, a paroxysm of the flesh – The Push Pops reinscribe the body through participatory ritual, spontaneous performance and interactive multi-media installation.
There's as much of this as you can stand on YouTube. Or at their home page.
Caution: lots of patriarchy-demolishing swears in the second video.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 17, 2014 -
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Category: Feminism, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde
Vintage Chauvanist Ads
Check out these old ads. I especially like the one that asks "Is it always illegal to kill a woman?' Times have sure changed, thank goodness!
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 07, 2013 -
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Category: Feminism
The Coal Mining Daughter
I would have been proud to shake Ida Mae Stull's hand--except that she might have crushed mine!
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 07, 2013 -
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Category: Feminism, Law, 1930s, Women, Mining
Furburger
It's certainly been too long since we've had a musical number on WU, so without fur(ther) ado.....
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 16, 2012 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Feminism, Hygiene, Music, Sexuality, Women, Genitals
The Girls of Murder City
Why the video of an old song in this post? It's the tune that one of the murderesses played and danced to, over the corpse of her victim!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 18, 2010 -
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Category: Crime, Feminism, Music, Regionalism, Wives, Books, 1920s
Dreaming Of A Weird Christmas!
Not requiring a flu jab, but in need of a facelift, was the 66’ fibreglass Santa that has been the centrepiece of Auckland, New Zealand’s Christmas pageant for nearly 50 years. With a droopy winking eye and a gesturing mechanical finger, the jolly red giant was beginning, in the words of one local, to “look a little creepy.” But not anymore, as NZ$100,000 have been spent refurbishing the big guy ahead of this Sunday’s grand unveiling (Reuters).
Someone definitely not in need of a facelift is the recently announced “Hunky Santa of 2009.” Los Angeles mall the Beverley Center first introduced their hunky Santas nine years ago, swapping abs and pecs for the beard and britches. This year north-pole toting poseur is James Ellis, who hopes to encourage people to live more healthily and wants to be a role model for kids by parading his festive physique in a fur-trimmed red vest (LA Times).
All of which is not the sort of thing you’re likely to see during Raleigh, North Carolina’s Christmas parade. So worried are parade organisers that the little ones might be confused by two people dressed in red that they have banned “Mrs. Claus” from participating in costume. They have even asked attendees not to wear Santa-hats in case it distracts attention from the “real” St. Nick (WXII12).
And further killjoyery (?) this week from the Employers Forum on Belief, which has advised company bosses that to close their office over Christmas might be construed as discriminatory, since non-Christian employees must use annual leave for their religious holidays. Instead of emphasising the holiday’s religious nature, say the EFB, management should focus on the cost-effectiveness of the closure as a majority of staff would be absent anyway (ILM).
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Posted By: Dumbfounded - Tue Nov 24, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Exercise and Fitness, Feminism, Health, Holidays, Hygiene, Law, Religion, Bodybuilding
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