Vice President Biden is well known for passing himself off as a regular Joe, but apparently this regular Joe likes to indulge in a naked swim every now and then, according to a new book. In "The First Family Detail," author Ronald Kessler claims to have the skinny on Biden from Secret Service agents who protect senior politicians. "Agents say that, whether at the vice president's residence or at his home in Delaware, Biden has a habit of swimming in his pool nude. Female Secret Service agents find the behavior offensive," Kessler writes.
When President John Quincy Adams lived in the White House, between 1825 and 1829, the former diplomat and U.S. Senator frequently went skinny-dipping in the Potomac River, causing no fuss. President Teddy Roosevelt, an avid outdoorsman, swam naked in the Potomac. Billy Graham was one of many to go skinny-dipping with President Lyndon Johnson in the White House pool. Yet today in a story emailed out to media professionals as a "POLITICO EXCLUSIVE," Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan write about mere congressional skinny-dipping like it's a serious scandal ...
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A very good point to be concerned about. I think the recent findings that more girls are going through puberty at an earlier age (age 8 & 9) has some implications as to their identity development and the host of risks that come with early puberty for girls.
While reading this blog post it really got me thinking on how even the clothes that parents buy their kids send off inapporpriate messages. Hollister, which is a popular clothing store, sells shirts that they call "hot and funny" but in reality these shirts are not positive. "I heart the woody" to me is not a short a teen girl should wear but often times parents dont even realize that the clothes their kids are wearing are sending sexual messages. The shirts are designed for young girls when you see the bright and cute colors but the wording is not for that audience. Another popular clothing item is the pants with wording on the back. Those pants are sexualizing to say the least but a teen girl think its cute. So sexualization of teens not only happen through the media but also through the clothes they wear.
The sexualization of girls is and has been an important issue in American culture (as well as many cultures around the world). The disturbing reality is- we, as a culture (Americans), are so accustomed to it that it has become normalized. It no longer shocks or disturbs people to see grown women dressed up like school girls. Parents subject their toddlers to parading around in thick makeup, coated in spray on tanner and modeling bathing suits in "beauty" pageants teaching their very young children to perform an unrealistic, superficial understanding of beauty and sexuality. And what do we do with such shocking images? Make a show all about it (Toddlers in Tiaras) one of the most popular reality shows on television! Go to your local toy store and you'll find dozens of make-up kits, salon hair styling toys and press on nails, like the "Disney Princess Beauty Playset" (you can check it out at toysrus.com) which comes with a fake hair dryer, curler, and straightener and is recommended for ages 3 to 6. This is the norm! By the time girls understand that they are girls they understand that being a girl means caring about being pretty, and as they get older it only gets worse. The images they admired as children- skinny, big-breasted, white, blonde Barbie dolls, and similarly shaped Disney Princesses- are carbon copied onto the front of their favorite magazines, TV shows, advertisements, and movies in the form of "hot" young actresses, models and pop stars. On top of that self-esteem killer, girls have the pressure of doing all they can not to be labeled a slut or a prude- trying to fit in while facing impossible standards with sexist implications.
I was taking with my 21 years old daughter about this class and the danger of the cyber bulling. She tall me about one of her friend in the college that posted a nude picture of herself. She was very proud of this heroic act. She was not regretted because she created a false identity online.
What really worries me about our young girls today is all the Hippocratic and double standard teaching.As a young girl in the late 80s and early 90s i was a product of equal rights for women and being self suffusiont .learning to stand on my own two feet and feeling good about it.In today's world it would appear we as women are going backwards.So often we are portrayed as a commodity who without a look has nothing to offer.As a result opinions, no matter whose, and to what credibility they stand. are allowed to destroy girls self esteem and true identity often times before any real identity has had a chance to develop and stabilize.What a sad outlook for our wonderful youth.
Ironically, our language features allow us to make women look bad, while our cultural practices obligate women to look beautiful. These two issues are connected, as are gender-differentiating talk and our belief in sex differences.
Certain bits of English usage indicate something derogatory about a woman, or about women in general. Using these features contributes to appearances that women are lesser beings than men. Linguist Robin Lakoff illustrates the derogation of women by comparing pairs of similar words in masculine and feminine forms.1 The feminine terms in each such pair carry comparatively negative connotations, and derogatory secondary meanings.
We arrive hete at a coinddence: To make women look bad is often to make them unattractively sexual. "Sir" and "madam are both terms of respect, but a madam could also be the person in charge of a bawdy house. Ring" and "queen" are both titles for royalty, but "queen" has a secondary meaning of a gay man.
This postmodern rant calls attention to some ways that words make women look bad. These words work even in cases in which ambiguity veils the reference to women. Consider this popular song, which is addressed to either a girlfriend or a motor vehicle.
Women are so often photographed or displayed as amputated body parts in advertising that we may lose our capacity to be shocked by such representations. These practices may also be combined with other forms of social bigotry. African American feminist bell hooks tells this tale:
If speakers build a face of the alien and frightening other, this includes reference to deviant sexuality. Consider this joke I heard in more than one city during the brief 1991 war between the United States and Iraq.
The same pun (seamen/semen) employed to create a killable enemy in war-time is used against women as standard targets of aggression. Note that this joke does not even need to specify that the unmarked form of cheerleader is female.
The Lenape were then in a State of degrading vassalage to the Five Nations, who, that they might drain to the dregs the cup of humiliation, had forced them to assume the name of Women, and forego the use of arms.
A man, it seems can be tagged as a woman for paying excessive attention to his appearance, and for practicing a feminine mode of hitting. The conclusion: Fred is tarred with the womanly insult of being at a characterological low point in the menstrual cycle.
These instances should be evaluated with the specifically sexual epithets discussed previously. Together, these instances indicate a range of ways to insult women, and to insult men by tagging them as women.
A lexical study from a similar premise began with lists of the thousand most commonly used words in the English language. Subjects rated these words as masculine words, feminine words, or neither/both. Here are some common English words rated most masculine and most feminine. Guess which list is which:
These lists of words are not exactly something that we do. The way cultures operate, you do not have to organize things into masculine things and feminine things. As inheriting a million dollars makes one rich without personal action, the resources of our language offer a speaker an implicitly gendered world before one even begins to speak. Any utterance may include gendering talk, and many of our most common words carry gendered shadings.
This State of affairs puts a female in a bind. She may set goals for herself as a normal female or as a normal competent adult, but it seems difficult to do both of these things within the same life. A male does not face that problem: To become a normal adult and a normal male is to live up to one set of self- conceptions.
This emphasis leads to teen eating disorders, among other problems. The emphasis on beauty, even for women held up as beauty icons, has trouble- some consequences. A woman can be trivialized by mention of her looks as one who appears and does not act. This seems especially to be the case if a woman shows interest in such appearances:
[M]en who, considering females rather as women than human creatures, have been more anxious to make them alhiring mistresses than affectionate wives and rational mothers; and the understanding of the sex has been so bubbled by this specious homage, that the civilised women of the present century, with a few exceptions, are only anxious to inspire love, when they ought to cherish a nobler ambition.18
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