Popular Culture -- GENDER ISSUES info from a university's site

Popular Culture -- GENDER ISSUES

(Kind of) Befriending our first blog topic on MySpace...The Girls Next Door

As an addendum....to this week's scholarly topic...eh hem...
I figured I'd post my little adventures in the world of MySpace finding Kendra, Briget, and Holly (much to the confusion of my actual friends... "What is Jessie doing on MySpace befriending the playboy girlfriend trio?" Nope, I haven't (completely) lost it yet...
Here's Bridget
www.myspace.com/bunnybridget
Kendra
www.myspace.com/kendrawilkinson
& Holly (the ewok?)
www.myspace.com/hollyewok

Martha Stewart's HELL!

A NY Times Recipe:
1 Column) Restaurant Review,
1 Establishment) The Penhouse Club
(and yes, appropriately named)
2 sets of nude phots of women) Multimedia Slideshows
1) Dude who has NY Times authority to claim the steaks are the reason for his trip...mix together and (emeril-style...BAM!):
and I give you... This really relevant to class...and sadly illustrative of life....Restaurant Review of Robert's Steakhouse!

The New York Times > Robert's Steak House Restaurant Review > New York City Restaurant Reviews

If Ever there was a topic more relevant to your blogs in college...Sorority Evictions Raise Issue of Looks and Bias

GREENCASTLE, Ind. — When a psychology professor at DePauw University here surveyed students, they described one sorority as a group of “daddy’s little princesses” and another as “offbeat hippies.” The sisters of Delta Zeta were seen as “socially awkward.”
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Women at DePauw University in Indiana who were either asked to leave the Delta Zeta house or resigned in protest hold a sorority photo.
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Elizabeth Haneline, who was among those evicted, said, “The Greek system hasn’t changed at all, but instead of racism, it’s image now.”

Worried that a negative stereotype of the sorority was contributing to a decline in membership that had left its Greek-columned house here half empty, Delta Zeta’s national officers interviewed 35 DePauw members in November, quizzing them about their dedication to recruitment. They judged 23 of the women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.

The 23 members included every woman who was overweight. They also included the only black, Korean and Vietnamese members. The dozen students allowed to stay were slender and popular with fraternity men — conventionally pretty women the sorority hoped could attract new recruits. Six of the 12 were so infuriated they quit.

“Virtually everyone who didn’t fit a certain sorority member archetype was told to leave,” said Kate Holloway, a senior who withdrew from the chapter during its reorganization.
Go to...the NY Times article for more:
Sorority Evictions Raise Issue of Looks and Bias - New York Times

BlogSheroes | the feminist bloggers network

BlogSheroes | the feminist bloggers network

Research Team!NCAC - National Coalition Against Censorship

Good site w/ plenty of links to issues and places that are great analytical sites, as well as great issues/sites to analyze :o)

NCAC - National Coalition Against Censorship

Research & PR - feminist blogs » Reality TV: Survivor

Thanks Jen! I found this one on your blog :o)
go to http://feministblogs.org for more topics (this one links specifical to reality tv shows, with "Survivor" as the subtopic).
feminist blogs » Reality TV: Survivor

PR Team! PopMatters Blogs

Here's a list of blogs listed on the Pop Matters blog (they link to other blogs here), see if you can get them to link to our blogs (or the "blogging in college" one)!

PopMatters Blogs

Research Group: A blog on pop culture! (and it's a cultural criticism of pop culture): PopMatters

PopMatters
Not a fan-site! Check it out :o)

Photo Blogging on 29 in NJ- a bit of a delay

See...I said I 'd blog the pic of my ridiculous commute! It just took about 10 hours to actually get from my phone to the blog....hmmm...delayed photo blogging kind of defeats the whole "mobile blogging" on the go rationale :o)

The Power to Name -- For Etheridge, Oscar Nod Is a Dream

For Etheridge, Oscar Nod Is a Dream: "Melissa Etheridge knows all about labels. First there was the 'rock goddess' with the classic hit, 'Come to My Window.' Then there was 'lesbian singer.' Then came 'cancer survivor.' Now there's 'Oscar nominee.'

Etheridge, 45, competes in the best-song category for the anthem 'I Need to Wake Up' from the global-warming documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth.'"

iWon News - Many Playboy Playmates Have Died Young

Linking the Inventing the Cosmo Girl Reading, watching the Girls Next Door in class last week, and the blog post about Smith from (last week? I think)...an article...that ties them all up...Miami AP, Bring us home!
iWon News - Many Playboy Playmates Have Died Young

iWon News - Laughs End With Bizarre Britney in Rehab

iWon News - Laughs End With Bizarre Britney in Rehab: "The 25-year-old pop star has been seen wearing skimpy outfits and partying heavily since filing for divorce from Kevin Federline in November, after two years of marriage.

On Friday night, Spears, the mother of two young sons, shaved her head bald. But that didn't send her into hiding as she was later seen wearing an inexpensive blond wig.

'You know, for these celebrities, it's really tough,' New York-based psychiatrist Gail Saltz told The Associated Press. 'They have no idea if anybody likes them for them. ... Everybody wants a piece. Everybody wants to make something off of her, get somewhere by her.'

Spears' very public divorce isn't helping matters, said Saltz, who also suggested that Spears could be suffering from postpartum depression."

The Lesson: Hollywood Stars Attend Obama Fundraiser

Celebrealitics (still working on this one...celebs and politics...?)
Yet another of pop culture's many incarnations...stars from a variety of industries, and the political
(or...when the right-wing haters of the liberal Hollywood-ers get upset for celeb activism...but then the right-wingers are the ones who get the stars to run (and win!...go figure!) for actual public office (whether these officials ever do much...in terms of change...is debatable...just watch last week's Daily Show coverage of CSPAN....yeah...not much there!). Bash Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins (hell...burn Jane Fonda at the stake if you listen to most of Fox's "news-ish" teleprompter readers) and then elect Reagan and Mr. Terminator...yeah...okay?
Pop culture is politics and politics is pop culture...
That's today's lesson!
Hollywood Stars Attend Obama Fundraiser
(and that's the link to the source of today's lesson above)

USA TODAY has a blog on Pop Culture! Pop Candy - USATODAY.com

PR Group:
Get Whitney Matheson to cover our project!!! :o) That would be fun...mainstream press :o) Whether we can woo Whitney or not, we can still use this site as a resource!
Pop Candy - USATODAY.com

Why Do People Even Bother??? Is Spongebob Gay? | Blogger Party

Is Spongebob Gay? | Blogger Party

Found a goldmine for pop culture :o)

Here's their "tag cloud" (don't know what a tag cloud is? Better google it!):
ads Aircraft Airlines Airports Amsterdam Architecture Art Awards Bali Bangkok Barcelona Bars Bathroom Beach Beauty Bedroom Beijing Berlin Bike Books Business Business profiles Cafe Cape Town Cardboard Caribbean Chile China Clubs Copenhagen Design Dubai Eco Events Fahion Fashion Fitness Florence Food Furniture Germany Greece Hong Kong Hotels House ice cream Installation Japan Kids Kitchen Las Vegas Laundry Lifestyle Lighting Links London Los Angeles Magazines Maldives Melbourne Mexico Milan Munich Music Netherlands New York News Office Outdoor Packaging Paris Parties Pets Phuket Restaurants Rimini Rome rss Singapopre Ski Sneakers Spa Space Sports Stores Street Switzerland Sydney Theatre Themed hotels Toronto Toys Train Transportation TV Shows Underwater Wallpaper
thecoolhunter.net

Wired.com's Top Tools for Writers

Hi Class!Here's a link I found for you all on writing (it's from wired.com) for your blogs :o)-Jessie



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Buzz Group- How to create links to social bookmark services

How to create links to social bookmark services: "How to create links to social bookmark services
Filed under: SEO — arne on July 19, 2006

Social bookmark services are a good way to promote your website or blog. You can increase the number of bookmarks to your site with providing your visitors links which allow them to directly bookmark your site on their favourite bookmark service.

Below you can find a list of the most used ones, simply replace '[URL]' with the URL to your site or specific page and '[TITLE]' with the title of it. Some services have additional parameters, but they are pretty self-explanatory.

Note that you always need to urlencode your URL and title!

Del.icio.us:
http://del.icio.us/post?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]Many people ask how to predefine the tags for del.icio.us, but that’s not possible.

Furl:
http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=[URL]&t=[TITLE]

Digg:
http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]Maybe you should implement a referer check for digg users so they can instantly digg it instead of submitting your page again.

Google Bookmarks:
http://google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

YAHOO MyWeb:
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u=[URL]&=[TITLE]

BlinkList:
http:"

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