Gay men sometimes jokingly (and even semi-seriously) refer to their “gaydar”, their ability to sense whether someone is gay. Straight men, on the other hand, tend not to have access to such mystical powers, and anyway, for straight men the tension is all about prclaiming oneself is straight. It’s much easier to read someone else when that person is reacting to one’s implicit, “Hey, by the way, I’m straight.” I don’t really have to do that, because I live in Korea and I have met, maybe, one or two obviously gay men in my several years here. And they weren’t …
Month: July 2004
Korean Image Politics (thanks Oranckay)
Oranckay’s got a link up and I only wish I could read it. From a feminist perspecive, a comparison of society’s reactions to the pictures of Yun Geum I and the middle school students Sim Mi Seon and Sin Hyo Sun (disturbing pics here and here), and the Kim Seon Il beheading video. The piece is in the feminist magazine Ilda. Essentially, why is it okay to show very disturbing (they are, I felt sick seeing them) pictures of women killed by Americans, but it’s not okay to show images of a Korean killed by Iraqis? Of course, it’s all …
Navel bans, women, culture, and power
Egypt has enacted another navel ban on its version of MTV. Egyptian TV viewers are questioning the appropriateness of suggestive music videos in a traditional, Islamic culture, saying they fear for “their daughter’s morals”. Last year, the exuberantly nubile Lebanese singer Nancy Agram excited the wrath of the People’s Assembly, who called for a ban and fines to channels airing her video, though their threats were widely ignored. Recently, however, an Egyptian girl named Rubi upset members of parliament and the TV authority enough to institute a ban (affecting state-owned TV) on music videos where women’s navels appear. In a …
Another workaround.
The MIC ban got you down? Unipeak sucks, doesn’t it? Well, try this trick I got from Jae’s blog, My Resonating Life.
WTF?!?!?
Marvin posted this. Dude, this is so screwed up it’s scary!