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	<title>Official Shrub.com Blog &#187; The Beauty Myth</title>
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		<title>Why are body politics important? [Loving Our Bodies, Part 4]</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-03-06_551</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I had a penny for every time I&#8217;ve seen people, both men and women, call issues such as shaving &#8220;petty&#8221; or otherwise mock them when someone brings up the double standard as an example of why we aren&#8217;t equal, I would be a rich, rich woman. But why is something that, on the surface, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Male gaze, what male gaze?</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-01-24_689</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
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I think the video says it all. But, if not, then go read this deconstruction of the site being advertised: Chickipedia. For Guys That Never Get Laid.
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		<title>&#8220;If I were [x] I wouldn&#8217;t do that!&#8221; [Loving Our Bodies, Part 3]</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2007-07-11_553</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s summer again in Japan, which means torrential downpours, blisteringly hot days, and enough humidity to make you feel like you need to shower again right after you step out of the house. It is not weather that is conducive to pants and sleeves, but rather one that lends itself better to shorts, skirts, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Policing women through violence [Women and Violence, Part 7]</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-05-25_604</link>
		<comments>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-05-25_604#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 03:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigel Phoenix</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuse, rape, and domestic violence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is part of my series on Women and Violence, which I am writing as a project for a Women Studies course I'm taking. For an explanation and information on my intentions with this series, please see the <a href="http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-04-11_572">introduction</a>.]

In an article titled "'Femininity' and women's silence in response to sexual harassment and coercion," Kathleen V. Cairns describes how harassment of women functions as a method of social control over women's behavior:

<blockquote>[O]vert practices include the public, ritual shaming of women in the form of catcalls, lewd remarks and so on which serves to demonstrate the fact that 'any man or group of men feels entitled not only to pass judgement on any woman walking along minding her own business, but also to <i>announce it to her</i>' [Kotzin 1993: 167]

[...]

In patriarchy, women are taught to accept that their femaleness, their simple presence, are responsible for men's behavior towards them [...] It becomes women's responsibility to police themselves, to keep their dress, comportment and presence within approved limits to avoid 'provoking' harassment. (96-7).</blockquote>

This dynamic - of men acting with impunity to judge women, and women shouldering the blame for men's actions towards them - can be applied to other forms of gender violence as well. What it comes down to is the way that negative reactions from men - or even the <i>anticipation</i> of those reactions - function to police women in everything from their appearance to their behavior.]]></description>
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		<title>The violence beneath &#8216;beauty&#8217; [Women and Violence, Part 5]</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-05-05_594</link>
		<comments>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-05-05_594#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 07:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigel Phoenix</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuse, rape, and domestic violence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Beauty Myth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is part of my series on Women and Violence, which I am writing as a project for a Women Studies course I'm taking. For an explanation and information on my intentions with this series, please see the <a href="http://blog.shrub.com/archives/dora/2007-04-11_572">introduction</a>.]

Next week I'm giving a presentation in class on cosmetic surgery in regards to women of color. Now, cosmetic surgery does not readily fall under most common definitions of 'violence,' and I find myself hesitant to categorically label it as such.

On the one hand, while cosmetic surgery does involve bloody alterations on a person's body, so does surgery in general, and we generally don't label that as violent - especially when voluntarily consented to by the patient. The fact that cosmetic surgery is often (though not always) agreed to by an autonomous individual does mitigate the physical damage it brings.

Of course, we are all aware that 'consent' is a sticky issue, and that we can't ignore the pressures that can constrain a person's ability to make a choice - particularly in the case of women facing pressures to be 'beautiful' in a certain way.

Furthermore, the same level of physical damage can be construed as 'violent' or 'non-violent' depending on the context. Full-contact sports can be performed just as ferociously as a street brawl, yet not be uncontrolled and violent. What's more, a session of safe, sane, and consensual BDSM can be non-violent, while the quietest rape perpetrated under clearly communicated threat is clearly not.]]></description>
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		<title>Obesity Moral Panics and the Gendered Presentation of Disordered Eating</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/arielladrake/2007-05-05_589</link>
		<comments>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/arielladrake/2007-05-05_589#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 12:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arielladrake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Beauty Myth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The news here recently reported on a new study suggesting that eating disorder rates in Australia have more than doubled in the last decade, and the rates of &#8220;regular disordered eating&#8221; (that doesn&#8217;t necessarily coincide with a diagnosable eating disorder) have nearly tripled.
One of the researchers indicates that the issue spreading to &#8216;groups not typically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The beauty myth and character design</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2007-04-20_583</link>
		<comments>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2007-04-20_583#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex, sexuality, and sexual politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Beauty Myth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the points I constantly bring up as a barrier to gender inclusive game design is how women are hypersexualized &#8212; meaning that they are constructed to be characters whom presumably male characters would like to have sex with, they are often portrayed with exaggerated sexual characteristics (how often do you find a female [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A deeper look into femininity [The Gaming Beauty Myth, Interlude]</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2007-02-06_478</link>
		<comments>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2007-02-06_478#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gender Caste]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m labeling this as an &#8220;interlude&#8221; because the constructs of femininity I&#8217;m about to address don&#8217;t all directly intersect with the beauty myth, but the way that they interact with femininity as a whole is a topic that I feel needs to be addressed. I&#8217;ve been sitting on this one ever since Shannon over at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Beauty to Establish Gamer Cred [The Gaming Beauty Myth, Part 3]</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-29_457</link>
		<comments>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-29_457#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time I talked about two prevalent female gamer archetypes that represent the gaming beauty myth and this time I want to expand upon how that interacts with the real gaming world.
One facet of being seen first for your sexuality and second for everything else is that it can influence your position in something unrelated. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Female Gamer Archetypes [The Gaming Beauty Myth, Part 2]</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-26_453</link>
		<comments>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-26_453#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gender Cultism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-26_453</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since this blog is primarily aimed at people at least somewhat familiar with feminism, I often take it for granted that people know what I&#8217;m talking about when I say things like women are &#8220;the sex class&#8221; or that female geeks are made into &#8220;Second Class Geeks&#8221; by the way we&#8217;re treated as potential dates [...]]]></description>
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