In this gender reader: more on Abenomics, Disney dimorphism, video games before gendered marketing, and more.

HULK SMASH YOUR DELICATE LADY HAND. Image from Frozen via Family Inequality.
Posted in Consumer Culture, Gender, Media, Race, Visual Culture, tagged Abe, Abenomics, advice columns, animation, cultural appropriation, dimorphism, Disney, feminism, Gender, Katy Perry, sexism, video games on 2013/12/29| 1 Comment »
In this gender reader: more on Abenomics, Disney dimorphism, video games before gendered marketing, and more.
HULK SMASH YOUR DELICATE LADY HAND. Image from Frozen via Family Inequality.
Posted in Expat Living, Gender, Race, tagged Abe, Abenomics, coeducation, feminism, Gender, gender gap index, gender reader, harassment, japan, misogyny, racism, rape culture, sexism, University of Michigan, womenomics on 2013/11/30| 3 Comments »
In this gender reader, doing some catching up from October (when I did a spooky gender reader instead): harassment of non-Japanese women in Japan; bottoming out a whopping #105 in the Gender Gap Index; the problem with all the patronizing “sexless” Japan journalism; and Social Justice Wario.