Category: Media Literacy
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Manly Men: Fiji Pro, June 7th 2012
The amount of references that are made to how “manly” the men on the ASP World Tour are in video commentary and elsewhere, is utterly overwhelming at times. With comments like “These dudes are manly men”, “He better man-up”, descriptions of turns as “mannish hacks”, or even references to waves as women (“approach accordingly”), it…
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Surfing Mag and its Pathetic Fallacy
A lack of critical analysis of surf media, a loose understanding (or absence of concern), by editors, publishers, of the implications of continuing to showcase (ever greater) sexist content within surf culture has created an environment that begs for attention. For many in the surfing community, surfing is more than just a hobby, it is…
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The Necessity of Feminist Eyes, Voices
“Post-feminists ‘…explicitly define themselves [as] against… [while criticizing] feminists of the Second Wave‘ (women’s liberation movement). [In post-feminist thought], individual improvement replaces collective improvement, while the results of the collective action of the second wave movement are taken as a given. (Dworkin and Wachs, p. 139)” While taking for granted certain freedoms that were hard-won…
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Cause and Effect
“3 out of 4 girls feel ____?____ after leafing through a fashion magazine for 3 minutes.” “8 is the peak age for girls’ leadership ambition.” and other interesting facts PLUS what can be done. Another great short about the importance of media literacy from MissRepresentation.
