According to a national high school coaches directory, last season there were 15,675 high school football coaches (public and private) and all of them were males. That is about to change. On Friday, Natalie Randolph will be named the head football coach at Coolidge High School in Washington, DC. This is great news!
Randolph has good [...]
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ABC News has an article titled “Chivalry Lives! Arizona Teacher Requires Boys to Have Old-Fashioned Manners in Class.” It is about a male Arizona high school Latin teacher who has instituted a policy in his classes that “all of the boys in class would be expected to act like gentlemen around the girls.” Among his [...]
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As many of you know by now, this year’s Super Bowl featured an onslaught of sexist commercials, apparently geared towards men who feel ‘emasculated’ by the women in their lives. (For more on the word ‘emasculated,’ check out Mike’s previous post). One of the offenders was this Dodge commercial…”Man’s Last Stand,” which features a list [...]
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Last week, I wrote about a survey that had asked nearly 1,000 middle school students to rate the way they used cellphones. The result was that both the girls and boys used their cellphones to talk and text, but, the boys, in addition to talking and texting, also used the phones to “play games, share [...]
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In December, there was a study published in the journal New Media and Society by University of Alabama at Birmingham sociologist Shelia Cotten. Cotten had asked nearly 1,000 middle school students to rate the way they used cellphones. The result was that both the girls and boys used their cellphones to talk and text, but, [...]
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I’m really tired of seeing the word “mistress” used to signify the female in a relationship with a married man. Unfortunately, it’s used all the time since male politicians and athletes seem to have a proclivity for these kind of relationships. Most recently, of course, just yesterday, many reports about John Edwards referred to Rielle [...]
Filed under: Politics, Pop Culture, Stereotyping | Tagged: George Clooney, John Edwards, Language, Mistress, Vera Farmiga | 2 Comments »
Last night, Republican Scott Brown won the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, in an upset that’s been devastating for many Democrats. To be fair, I believe that a lot of the loss can be attributed to Coakley’s lackluster campaign and the disappointments thus far of the Obama Administration.
One interesting aspect of the Scott Brown phenomenon, [...]
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