Category Archives: feminism

FEMINISM IN ALL IT’S MANISFESTATIONS

Celebratory Drinking and Smoking Cigars — Out

Posing Half Naked on Maga­zine Covers  —  In

Could the mes­sage be any more clear?

February 26, 2010 – 7:58 pm | By cooper | Posted in Sexism, Society, Women, feminism | Comments (46)

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday, Here in Status Symbol Land

Give me the per­fect 90 degree, low humi­dity, per­fect for hiking, day over a pair of Manolo shoes any day.
I’m sit­ting here con­si­de­ring my good for­tune in having spent some long hours last week in an air­port full of tra­ve­lers retur­ning from Mexico.
A cou­ple of Aus­tra­lian dudes I met while snow­boar­ding in Chile, the sum­mer I …

April 26, 2009 – 3:52 pm | By cooper | Posted in Cooper Culture, Media, Music, family, feminism | Tagged | Comments (15)

A Fucking Hero?

My “obser­va­tion and report” on the Jody Hill direc­ted, Seth Rogen sta­rring, venal film of the same name, made at Legen­dary Pic­tu­res, and dis­tri­bu­ted by Warner Bros.

SETH ROGEN: when we’re having sex and she’s uncons­cious like you can lite­rally feel the audience thin­king, like, how the fuck are they going to …

April 8, 2009 – 5:20 pm | By cooper | Posted in Sexism, Society, Women, feminism, human rights, liberty, pop_culture, sex | Tagged , , , | Comments (25)

No LipStick For Dora the Explorer Please

You might assume I have bet­ter things to worry about than Dora the Explorer’s (link) meta­morpho­ses into a tween fashio­nista as she follows her aging vie­wers into tween-hood. You’d be right. I’m not worried about it, but it is going to be inte­res­ting to watch the media’s influence over yet another gene­ra­tion of tele­vi­sion …

March 13, 2009 – 1:34 am | By cooper | Posted in Media, Sexism, Society, feminism, pop_culture | Tagged , | Comments (23)