adonism (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} adonism) wrote,@ 2005-07-28 14:57:00 |
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News from Adonis Mirror:
We have a variety of new articles posted:
*Roger Ebert and the Terrifying Girl Next Door:
While his partner, Richard Roeper, has been in hot water among feminists in recent weeks for making comments about the models Dove has employed in its latest advertising campaign, Ebert has certainly had the more interesting career: indeed, his personal responses to feminism are well worth examining given his current fame as a Liberal celebrity.
http://adonismirror.com/06292005_leader
*Vanilla on Top
Sexism exists not just in the minds of sedate conservatives, but also among the urbane and trendy; being coolly hip is often the perfect defense for the most outrageous of acts, where every transgression can be defended under the aegis of irony. “Vanilla on Top” is about how this process unfolds, where white people “other” themselves for fun and profit, declaring their peers to be more “normative” than themselves, and thus their oppressors. The dynamic itself is very high school and yet this time it is the privileged and popular crowds who are insisting they’re drawing the short end of the stick, arguing that Vanilla is— well— on top.
http://adonismirror.com/07182005_leader
*God’s Gift
“One day our Youth Pastor, Rick, was delivering a lecture on the topic of love. Or more truthfully, about marital rape, although none of us were sophisticated enough—nor allowed to be sophisticated enough—to understand it precisely in those terms. Instead, this was a message on love and what to expect from it, a point clearly directed towards us boys even though we were a minority in the classroom. Married couples exist as one flesh and all the other standard topics were addressed, but the primary argument was that of submission: marital rape cannot happen because if one partner fails to consent, an ethical breach in the relationship has already occurred: and that a marital breakdown more worrisome had already occurred, with one partner putting the other into the position of being a rapist.”
http://adonismirror.com/07192005_leader
*Rusty White Knights
Fun fact: the only Dateline NBC episode to ever be video-capped and uploaded to the infamous and now defunct Suprnova.org (where files of all sorts were traded before it was shut down) was the one featuring Perverted Justice.com. And yet the supposedly anti-pedophile website continues to claim that they are about protecting children and not entertainment. “Rusty White Knights” covers many of the problematic issues of men’s response to their own violence against those with less power than themselves.
http://adonismirror.com/07192005_leader
I would also like to thank our readers and leave a reminder that we are always looking for new submissions.
—Adonis Mirror
We have a variety of new articles posted:
*Roger Ebert and the Terrifying Girl Next Door:
While his partner, Richard Roeper, has been in hot water among feminists in recent weeks for making comments about the models Dove has employed in its latest advertising campaign, Ebert has certainly had the more interesting career: indeed, his personal responses to feminism are well worth examining given his current fame as a Liberal celebrity.
http://adonismirror.com/06292005_leader
*Vanilla on Top
Sexism exists not just in the minds of sedate conservatives, but also among the urbane and trendy; being coolly hip is often the perfect defense for the most outrageous of acts, where every transgression can be defended under the aegis of irony. “Vanilla on Top” is about how this process unfolds, where white people “other” themselves for fun and profit, declaring their peers to be more “normative” than themselves, and thus their oppressors. The dynamic itself is very high school and yet this time it is the privileged and popular crowds who are insisting they’re drawing the short end of the stick, arguing that Vanilla is— well— on top.
http://adonismirror.com/07182005_leader
*God’s Gift
“One day our Youth Pastor, Rick, was delivering a lecture on the topic of love. Or more truthfully, about marital rape, although none of us were sophisticated enough—nor allowed to be sophisticated enough—to understand it precisely in those terms. Instead, this was a message on love and what to expect from it, a point clearly directed towards us boys even though we were a minority in the classroom. Married couples exist as one flesh and all the other standard topics were addressed, but the primary argument was that of submission: marital rape cannot happen because if one partner fails to consent, an ethical breach in the relationship has already occurred: and that a marital breakdown more worrisome had already occurred, with one partner putting the other into the position of being a rapist.”
http://adonismirror.com/07192005_leader
*Rusty White Knights
Fun fact: the only Dateline NBC episode to ever be video-capped and uploaded to the infamous and now defunct Suprnova.org (where files of all sorts were traded before it was shut down) was the one featuring Perverted Justice.com. And yet the supposedly anti-pedophile website continues to claim that they are about protecting children and not entertainment. “Rusty White Knights” covers many of the problematic issues of men’s response to their own violence against those with less power than themselves.
http://adonismirror.com/07192005_leader
I would also like to thank our readers and leave a reminder that we are always looking for new submissions.
—Adonis Mirror
