The Beyoncé and Taylor Swift Tours
Episode 397
In this episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki discuss the history of musical megatours and the concert movies they inspired....
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Docking the Long Tail of Culture
How mass culture has scored a decisive victory in the age of the Internet
In the past, the difficulty of acquiring long-tail content suggested that a person had many underlying status assets, such as intelligence, curiosity, and deep knowledge. When anyone can find anything obscure on the Internet within minutes, acquisition alone reveals no virtues or skills....
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Beyoncé and the Sexual Objectification of Lemonade
The Most Neglected Person in America is the Black Woman
This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS.
“As overly aggressive, unfeminine women, Black matriarchs allegedly emasculated their lovers and husbands. These men, understandably, either deserted their partners or refused to marry the mothers of their children. From the dominant group’s perspective, the matriarch represented a failed ...
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Are Female Characters Impossible?
This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS.
She is the Giddiness of Loss, the Fascination of Damnation, of Death
Euripides’ Alcestis offers a unique exemplification of the themes and arguments in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. Admetus’ elderly parents fail to step up and die for their son, ...
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Episode 21: The Zika Virus, Beyonce’s Formation, and Hillary Clinton’s Feminism Problem
In this week's episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the Zika virus and public health, Beyonce's Formation, and Hillary Clinton's feminism problem.
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