Spitting Game: The College Hook-Up Culture

www.collegehookupculture.com

What has created a culture of young adults that engage in frequent "hooking up" while in college? Is it Drugs? Alcohol? Normalized sexualization? Denice Ann Evans explores the answer to this question in her truly amazing and insightful award winning documentary by venturing into the minds of college age students, parents of students, and professionals. I highly recommend this to anyone that is an educator, has children that are in highschool or college, professionals, or basically anyone. Check it out here- (http://www.collegehookupculture.com/) watch clips, read about Denice and more!

College is a place where kids are leaving home for the first time; probably rarely explored the thought of being alone and utimately still searching to find themselves. College is a place where as stated in the documentary a place that is supposed to be fun, but also a time for learning, and in the new generation apparently a time for "hooking-up."

We have to ask ourselves, "Have we as a soceity created a breading ground for negative behaviors to infest the lives of our children?" What if it was said that "hooking-up" is just something that is becoming more of a norm and a part of this generations lifestyle? We have to look beyond this statement and investigate the root cause of this behavior. Which I believe is found in this documentary.

Please support the continued efforts of amazing people like Denice, in the journey to find answers and create a solution! Once again, go CHECK THIS DOCUMENTARY OUT!!! http://www.collegehookupcultur.com/ - It is amazing!!

From Denice herself, "Thanks for this great shout-out Jeremy! I appreciate the support so very much. I am offering my DVD at a special discounted rate to all your readers and FB friends & associates. If you could send this info. out or add to your post--that would be great! Anyone interested can just email me at: jhuefilms@gmail.com
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Dallas Desire, Fooball for Women or Pleasure for Men?

I recently came across a post on facebook by a someone who I consider family. It was a link to an interview of women that were trying out for a Women's football team, called Dallas Desire - awesome, right? This wasn't normal football though. While the women do wear shoulder pads & helments, it seems they are lacking the rest of their uniforms. No, they're not naked!

They are members of the Lingerie Football League, and the slogan is "True Fantasy Football." (http://www.lflus.com/) This is full contact football that women are playing literally in their underwear. Let's keep in mind that some of these games are played on astro turf! Ever had turf burn? Definition of Lingerie - Intimate apparel worn by women. So we've placed these women in their "intimate" night wear to be physical with each other, while being oppressed at the same time, for who? Not other women. When we place women in these environments to be exploited sexually they're perceived as less of humans, and what I mean by that is men tend to start viewing them as only sexual objects & that's almost always the first step to justifying violence against a person. For instance, strip clubs, men go there for the pleasure of a woman sexually but yet has not real connection or interest to her values as a person - it's all for instant gratification. While I know this isn't the same thing, we're placing these women into an arena of exactly what guys want, revert to the slogan "True Fantasy Football" - which the creators of this league coined and it's absolutely unintelligently brilliant - a bunch of partially clothed women playing what seems to be a vast majority of men's favorite sport and calling it a "fantasy."

So I pose the question, is this sport really for Women? How often, if at all, do you see sports containing men running around partially clothed (besides swimming) & participating in a physical contact sport? Society is tailored to men, and if anyone hasn't realized this then they're blind to the world around them. In everything women particpate they're sexualized in some manner, and objectified to extreme portions from the time they're little. For example- (http://www.cnbc.com/id/29721771/Beach_Volleyball_Ads_Could_Spike_Attendance) and the goal here isn't to get women to attend these sporting events! When is the last time you've seen men objectified or sexualized to get women to come to men's sporting events? When you mix the sexualization of these women with a physically violent sport it sends damaging messages to men that reinforce this skewed perception of women, but also perpetuates sexual violence! We see normalized sexual violence all the time in images, on TV, and now it's being put into real life.

People often, too often, ignore the influences soceity has on gender's in general, but specifically women. Everywhere you look a woman is being dehumanized & belittled sexually and into objects. So while I support women who want to plays sports, and believe that a woman has just as much right to do whatever a man does - I don't believe it should have to come down to the women's expense.


J


Jfallout1212@yahoo.com - Feel free to email me or leave comments


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The Pixel Project’s Voters’ Choice Campaign

Step Up is a proud supporter and invites you to read this post from the Pixel Project, an innovative Web 2.0 effort to turbo-charge global awareness about violence against women while raising funds for WAO and NCADV. As an awareness raising partner of the Pixel Project, we are pleased to share this information with you.


The Pixel Project’s Voters’ Choice Campaign

In our last post we told you to check back her for some news on an exciting new Pixel Project campaign. Well, here it is.

As you know, we are raising funds for WAO and NCADV by selling pixels from our exclusive online mystery collage of male celebrity role models for US$1 each. This fundraiser is currently set to launch in October 2010. We have already photographed two wonderful men for our collage (a Nobel Laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner), and now we are looking to add more.

Here’s where you come in. We have selected five exceptional male actors with strong family connections, a record of charitable work and no history of violence as candidates for our inclusion in our collage of male role models. Now we want the general public to decide who we should invite to participate in The Pixel Project.

All you need to do is visit our voting page here and click on your choice, sign the petition and then help us spread the word. http://www.petitionspot.com/profile/5325491/The_Pixel_Project/

The two actors with the most votes will be sent the voting results and the petition letter.

We strongly encourage you to add your name to the online petition that will be sent to the actors to ask them to participate as a male role model because they need to hear from all of us. The petition is being managed through http://www.petitionspot.com/


We have also set up five Facebook pages—one for each actor so you have a way of keeping up with the progress of the campaign and how your choice of male role model is faring in the polls. Tell all your friends and family to get behind their favourite actor and help us get to our goal of 20,000 votes for each celebrity.

Do we have your attention yet?

Good, because there’s more you need to know, like the names of the nominees! Here they are, with links to their Facebook pages:

• Alexander Skarsgard
• David Tennant
• Hugh Jackman
• Jake Gyllenhaal
• Will Smith

We’ll be following the campaign on The Pixel Project Facebook page and right here in our blog, so stay tuned.

Thanks for your help and support! Be sure to vote soon—the campaign ends on 17 June 2010!

Check out their webiste here http://www.thepixelproject.net/ or there is a link located to the right of this blog.





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