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ISOLATED: An exhibition about solitary confinement by Richard Ross
ISOLATED: An exhibition about solitary confinement by Richard Ross
September 25-December 4, 2015
The Isolated exhibit is the most recent component of UCSB Professor Richard Ross' ten-year effort to document the juvenile justice system in the United States. In this show, Ross critiques the pervasive use of solitary confinement with a combination of documentary photographs, audio clips from interviews with incarcerated youth, and a facsimile of an isolation cell.
For more about the Juvenile In Justice project:
- Opening Reception: Friday, September 25, 4pm-6pm, H202
- Documentary Photography as Social Change Agent, a lecture by Hannah Frieser: Wednesday, October 28, 4:30pm, A211
- Alternatives to Isolation, a panel discussion coordinated by Freedom4Youth: Friday, November 13, 4pm, H202
- Biggs, Brooke Shelby. "Solitary Confinement: A Brief History." Mother Jones, March 2, 2009. Web. September 13, 2015: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/03/solitary-confinement-brief-natural-history
- Breslow, Jason M.. "What Does Solitary Confinement Do To Your Mind?" Public Broadcasting Station (PBS), April 22, 2014. Web. September 13, 2015: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/criminal-justice/locked-up-in-america/what-does-solitary-confinement-do-to-your-mind/
- Transitions Program at Santa Barbara City College: The mission of the Transitions Program is to provide access to higher education to individuals released from the California criminal justice system, and create a smooth transition from prison to the community college. email@example.com, http://www.sbcc.edu/eopscare/Transitions.php
- Freedom4Youth: Freedom4Youth's mission is to empower youth and build community in the juvenile justice firstname.lastname@example.com, http://freedom4youth.org
- Juvenile in Justice: Juvenile In Justice is a unique source for images of the American juvenile justice system, which are made available to all institutions and non-profits aimed at youth justice system reform. email@example.com, http://www.juvenile-in-justice.com
Gallery Info
The Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College Art Department's showcase for the visual arts, hosts six exhibitions of contemporary art each academic year featuring international, national, regional and student artists working in a wide range of styles and media. AS OF JANUARY 2014, The Atkinson Gallery is located in the newly renovated Humanities Building, Room 202 on the East Campus of Santa Barbara City College, 721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.
REGULAR HOURS: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10am-4pm; Wednesday 10am-1pm & 3pm-6pm
VIEWING APPOINTMENTS: Any day, any time with a little advanced notice (truly!)
CLOSED: Weekends and School Holidays
For more information contact:
Sarah Cunningham
Atkinson Gallery Director
Art Department, Santa Barbara City College
(805) 965 – 0581 x 3484
Did you know that the Gallery relies on private donors like you to fund 95% of salary and program costs? Each year, we present 6 contemporary art exhibits with rich links to the college curriculum. Additionally, we offer free gallery tours and artist lectures for SBCC students and community members.
As an integral part of Santa Barbara City College, we receive donation via the Foundation for SBCC.
Thanks for your support!
Please click on the button above to go to the Atkinson Gallery Team Page on the SBCC Foundation site.
Please send a check made out to "Foundation for SBCC" with "Atkinson Gallery" in the memo line. Check may be mailed to Foundation for SBCC, 721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.
Atkinson Gallery Annex
Exhibitions are available for viewing during the Gourmet Dining Room's regular hours:
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This truely is a nice shot. Without the cars on te left and in front it would be a Van Ruijsdael. Could we only turn back time for photographer's sake.
Thanks Antonnob! This is one of the most beautiful spots of Schiedam. Its a shame they allow cars to park. I agree with you we should be possible to turn back time, Van Ruijsdael would be pleased, and so do I!
Greetings, Ed.
I visited Dordrecht a while back. I would suggest you to look through your viewer there too. So much to see and many authentical details. I love that.
You're right! Promise you I go there!
Greetings, Ed.
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I missed this amazing video, so I assume many of my readers did, too. Henson Ong starts off with, "I am a legal immigrant, and I am an American by choice." Ong takes the assemblage to school on the Second Amendment, and he has a deeper and more profound understanding of American history and law than most of our elected officials.
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On Tap Today: Batter up
Fish fry peak is upon us, and Wisconsinites-- of all people-- know their fish fries. So we asked readers to name their fave fries, and in Weekend Cue Dining Critic Carol Deptolla rounds up the suggestions. Our roster of area church fish fries provides more options than you can shake a bread stick at. Find our Fish Fry Fest here, along with a map to help you discover the batter of your dreams.
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Pink Banana Theatre wrestles with truth, Internet in 'Dark Play'
When we first meet Nick in Carlos Murillo's "Dark Play," now on stage at Pink Banana Theatre Company in a production that opened over the weekend, he's a blandly attractive, seemingly wholesome collegian — "pretty much indistinguishable," as he'll later tell us, "from any other college kid."
But there's more here than initially meets the eye, as we learn when the woman sharing Nick's dorm-room bed begins asking about the web of scars along his waistline. Does Nick tell Molly the truth about these now-healed wounds? Or should he do as he's always done and make "stuff" — Nick uses a different word — up? »Read Full Article(1)
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Many of the artists who have won this year's Mary L. Nohl Fellowships for individual artists, the most prestigious local award for artists, are particularly strong in the areas of film and new media.
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1. Heat ovcn to 400. Rinse birds and pat dry. Mix spices with salt and rub birds inside and out. Place in a roasting pan. Put pan in oven; after 15 minutes, reduce heat to 350. Roast for 45 minutes, or until juices run clear. Baste every 10 minutes or so. (Dont baste for the first 10 minutes to allow skin to crisp.) Let rest 10 minutes before serving. VARIATIONS: Substitute 1 C Chinese Five-Spice Powder for the paprika mix, or rub hens with 2 t honey and substitute 1 C Curry Powder for paprika mix. Martha Stewart Living/Feb. & March/94 Scanned & fixed by Di and Gary Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #514 by kathy
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Mathematics of Fuzzy Sets: Logic, Topology, and Measure Theory / Edition 1by Ulrich Hohle, S.E. Rodabaugh
Pub. Date: 12/31/1998
Publisher: Springer US
Mathematics of Fuzzy Sets: Logic, Topology and Measure Theory is a major attempt to provide much-needed coherence for the mathematics of fuzzy sets. Much of this book is new material required to standardize this mathematics, making this volume a reference tool with broad appeal as well as a platform for future research. Fourteen chapters are organized into
Mathematics of Fuzzy Sets: Logic, Topology and Measure Theory is a major attempt to provide much-needed coherence for the mathematics of fuzzy sets. Much of this book is new material required to standardize this mathematics, making this volume a reference tool with broad appeal as well as a platform for future research. Fourteen chapters are organized into three parts: mathematical logic and foundations (Chapters 1-2), general topology (Chapters 3-10), and measure and probability theory (Chapters 11-14).
Chapter 1 deals with non-classical logics and their syntactic and semantic foundations. Chapter 2 details the lattice-theoretic foundations of image and preimage powerset operators. Chapters 3 and 4 lay down the axiomatic and categorical foundations of general topology using lattice-valued mappings as a fundamental tool. Chapter 3 focuses on the fixed-basis case, including a convergence theory demonstrating the utility of the underlying axioms. Chapter 4 focuses on the more general variable-basis case, providing a categorical unification of locales, fixed-basis topological spaces, and variable-basis compactifications.
Chapter 5 relates lattice-valued topologies to probabilistic topological spaces and fuzzy neighborhood spaces. Chapter 6 investigates the important role of separation axioms in lattice-valued topology from the perspective of space embedding and mapping extension problems, while Chapter 7 examines separation axioms from the perspective of Stone-Cech-compactification and Stone-representation theorems. Chapters 8 and 9 introduce the most important concepts and properties of uniformities, including the covering and entourage approaches and the basic theory of precompact or complete [0,1]-valued uniform spaces. Chapter 10 sets out the algebraic, topological, and uniform structures of the fundamentally important fuzzy real line and fuzzy unit interval.
Chapter 11 lays the foundations of generalized measure theory and representation by Markov kernels. Chapter 12 develops the important theory of conditioning operators with applications to measure-free conditioning. Chapter 13 presents elements of pseudo-analysis with applications to the Hamilton&endash;Jacobi equation and optimization problems. Chapter 14 surveys briefly the fundamentals of fuzzy random variables which are [0,1]-valued interpretations of random sets.
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Table of Contents
1. Many-Valued Logic and Fuzzy Set Theory; S. Gottwald. 2. Powerset Operator Foundations for Poslat Fuzzy Set Theories and Topologies; S.E. Rodabaugh. 3. Axiomatic Foundations of Fixed-Based Fuzzy Topology; U. Höhle, A.P. Sostak. 4. Categorical Foundations of Variable-Basis Fuzzy Topology; S.E. Rodabaugh. 5. Characterization of L-Topologies by L-Valued Neighborhoods; U. Höhle. 6. Separation Axioms: Extension of Mappings and Embedding of Spaces; T. Kubiak. 7. Separation Axioms: Representation Theorems, Compactness, and Compactifications; S.E. Rodabaugh. 8. Uniform Spaces; W. Kotzé. 9. Extensions of Uniform Space Notions; M.H. Burton, J. Gutiérrez García. 10. Fuzzy Real Lines and Dual Real Lines as Poslat Topological, Uniform, and Metric Ordered Semirings with Unity; S.E. Rodabaugh. 11. Fundamentals of Generalized Measure Theory; E.P. Klement, S. Weber. 12. On Conditioning Operators; U. Höhle, S. Weber. 13. Applications of Decomposable Measures; E. Pap. 14. Fuzzy Random Variables Revisited; D.A. Ralescu.
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Use eGovernment to lower costs, says EU Commission
European governments must make greater use of the internet in the way they work or risk increasing the cost of doing business and alienating the young, the European Commission has said. The Commission has launched a plan and some pilot projects aimed at encouraging governments across the trading bloc to make more use of …
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"Steely" Neelie usually makes sense, so who's the SOB who's introduced her to the delights of Wankword Bingo?
The untapped potential of efficiencies and empowerment causing problems? She so owes me a new bollockometer, this one's just wrapped the needle round the stop.
The european commission are evangelising about efficiency in government. Where should one start .......?
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Campbell Genealogy of Narraguagus Valley Maine
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History of Cayuga County New York
This history of Cayuga County New York published in 1879, provides a look at the first 80 years of existence for this county, with numerous chapters devoted to it's early history. One value of this manuscript may be found in the etched engravings found throughout of idyllic scenes of Cayuga County including portraits of men, houses, buildings, farms, and scenery. Included are 90 biographies of early settlers, and histories of the individual townships along with lists of men involved in the Union Army during the Civil War on a regiment by regiment basis.
An Historical Sketch of the Seneca County Medical Society
At the anniversary meeting of the Seneca County Medical Society held at Waterloo, July 23, 1885, a resolution was introduced by Dr. S. R. Welles, and adopted by the Society, that a committee be appointed which should prepare biographical sketches of members of the Society from its earliest history to the present time. As a result, this manuscript was published which includes 75 biographies of the early pioneers of the Seneca County Medical Society.
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Zumwalt is way behind, just now able to practice. That doesn't bode well for his chances to make the team.
Zumwalt is way behind, just now able to practice. That doesn't bode well for his chances to make the team.
Moats started last year for Buffalo as did Williams for us. Garvin saw some playing time last year and LB coach, Keith Butler is on record as saying... someday Garvin will be a starter in this league. That is high praise. Spence was drafted to be a starter and could prove he's capable of such a role in this league. If that is the case, you have 4 guys that could be starter quality as backups. How about that for some depth? Also, what about this Howard Jones kid? He seems to be having an awesome training camp especially in pass rush drills.
At this point, I don't see any way that Zumwalt is making this team. It's not going to happen.
Special teams is going to have a lot of LBs on it
McCullers has had some very good moments but I can't say he is a lock to make it. The evaluation process is still going on so until 8/26 when we first start cutting and go to 75 everyone is safe.
Regarding backers we seem to have a lot of talent there and it would not shock me if we keep 9 on the final roster.
There is a chance Carrington wont make the rams roster with them having Long, Quinn, Hayes, Langford, Brockers, Donald, and Sam....hes a bit of a tweener for them and they are loaded
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Carroll County Memorial Hospital is introducing a new Pain Management Clinic to our expanding Outpatient Clinics. Dr. Dennison R. Hamilton MD, MPH, will begin seeing patients Friday, July 15, in the new CCMH Medical Plaza.
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Carroll County Memorial Hospital is excited to announce that we are moving our Outpatient Clinics into the new CCMH Medical Plaza. Staff is busy packing up and transitioning into the new space over the holiday weekend and we will be ready for business with our OB-GYN Clinic, Outpatient Surgery Clinic and Wound Clinic on Tuesday, July 5.
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Carroll County Memorial Hospital Inc. provides a unique concept to rural healthcare not duplicated in north central Missouri or perhaps the Midwest. CCMH provides a licensed 25-bed critical access hospital, and a long-term care unit. CCMH manages 4-physician clinics with 3 physicians, a Physician Assistant and two Licensed Nurse Practitioner. Additionally, CCMH provides Lifestyle Fitness, a unique rehab and fitness center, which incorporates an indoor pool, sauna, hot tub, indoor 1/16 mile walking track, and state of the art fitness equipment with certified therapists and trainers providing therapy and programs to residents of Carroll County and the surrounding areas. CCMH also hosts Jefferson Park, an upscale 30 unit Independent Living Center and the Senior Center of Carroll County. This all takes place on a 11 acre campus located in Carrollton, MO
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So i have been reading up on how to use this SDK and i would like to ask a simple question just to kind of concertize what I know.
This SDK simply does physics calculations for a scene and then it hands me a set of updated positions for each actor in the scene as it updates as the simulation is running. so i simply use this updated coordinates in place of those coordinates that i would normally use to move objects in the scene manually with out PhysX?
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Free agency has reached the college level.
Not for the athletes, of course. But conferences and institutions now have the freedom to decide the economic and geographic future of intercollegiate athletics.Penn State's move to the Big 10, followed closely by the jump of Arkansas from the Southwest Conference to the Southeastern Conference, has triggered a domino effect that could leave major-college football with a completely different look in the 1990s.
Welcome to the era of the superconference. Before all the shuffling is finished, it's possible that at least one current major conference will disband, a few more will drop to Division I-AA and there will be only one true independent - Notre Dame.
"I think what you will see is not many eight- or 10-team conferences," said Miami Athletic Director Sam Jankovich, whose school is among the most highly sought in the scramble. "You will see more 12 or 14-team conferences with separate divisions."
The signs already are falling into place. The Southeastern Conference already is seeking at least one more school and is formulating plans to split into two divisions. The Metro Conference, previously inactive in football, has unveiled plans for a possible 16-team megaleague in football, stretching along the entire Eastern seaboard to the Mississippi River.
The Southwest Conference, reduced to a one-state league with the defection of Arkansas, is discussing the possibility of a merger with the Big Eight, which could lose members in several directions. That would create a league with 12 to 14 teams.
"There are a number of conferences talking with other leagues on a rather urgent basis," said Thomas Hansen, commissioner of the Pacific 10 Conference.
Among other hot items making the rounds:
- The SEC offering invitations to Miami, Florida State and South Carolina to join Arkansas in an expanded league.
- The Big 10 rescinding its moratorium on further expansion and considering Nebraska, Syracuse or Pittsburgh for membership.
- Oklahoma replacing Arkansas in the Southwest Conference.
- The Pac-10 looking to include Colorado, Brigham Young or San Diego State and breaking into two divisions.
- The Atlantic Coast Conference offering football-only membership to three Big East schools - Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Boston College.
- Fresno State leaving the Big West for the Pac-10 or Western Athletic Conference.
The pressure to join a superconference is great. Those without an affiliation when all the juggling is over may find themselves in Division I-AA.
Independents, who used to be able to schedule each other, may find themselves locked out of quality opponents once conference seasons begin.
"As former independents drop you from their schedules - schedules which coincide with conference playing schedules - it's impossible to add existing conference teams into those dates," said Jake Crouthamel, Syracuse athletic director. "You don't have enough preconference dates available to get 11 games."
The only exception, of course, would be Notre Dame, which already is scheduled into the year 2004.
The catalyst for all the frenzied activity, as usual, is money and television. With Notre Dame's breakaway from the College Football Association to sign its own TV deal, conferences figure they also can control their own destiny when new deals are negotiated in 1995 or sooner.
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Here's the thing: Considering how much that I love 2000AD and Judge Dredd, you'd think I'd be much more excited than I am about IDW Publishing's announcement at WonderCon that they have the American rights for Dredd material. Sadly, I have enough of a memory to know that this might just lead to more fan heartbreak.
Legal | A judge denied a motion for acquittal and a new trial in the case of Michael George, the former comic book store owner and convention organizer convicted of killing his wife in 1990, dismissing the defense's argument that there was insufficient evidence for conviction. George is serving a life sentence. [Detroit Free Press]
Publishing | DC Comics announced last night it will shut down its message board in early March as part of an overhaul of the publisher's website that will include Facebook-hosted commenting and integrated Twitter feeds. [The Source]
Creators | About 15 people threw eggs at Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks as he spoke on freedom of speech at the University of Karlstad. Vilks has raised the ire of some Muslims with his cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammed. Vilks told the audience, "Insults are part of democratic society. If we begin censoring ourselves, it will mean undermining freedom of speech in the long run. I don't think that the problem is that artists are too provocative but that we are not provocative enough." None of the eggs hit the cartoonist, and the protestors were removed from the room. [UPI.com]
Publishing | Three million-dollar Kickstarter drives, including Rich Burlew's $1.2 million campaign for The Order of the Stick, make the fund-raising site look like a pot of gold to some folks, but it's not that easy: Suw Charman-Anderson, who;s contemplating a Kickstarter drive herself, looks at the factors that make the big money-makers so successful. [Forbes]
Editorial cartoons | The New York Times has responded to Daryl Cagle's criticism of its hiring policy and fees for editorial cartoonists, saying the newspaper will delay bringing political cartoons back to its Sunday review section until editors have had time to revisit their policies. [The Cagle Post]
Editorial cartoons | For those who want a look at the bigger picture, Columbia Journalism Review surveys the landscape of editorial cartooning and in particular, the economics of syndication. [Columbia Journalism Review]
One of the reasons that the digital comics distributor comiXology has done so well is that it syncs well across a number of platforms, including iOS, Android and the web. Their web store is convenient for those who prefer browsing and buying on their computer, but the Flash-based interface is a bit buggy—it never scrolled properly in my Safari browser, for instance—so I was happy to hear that they have relaunched the web store using HTML5 for the browsing and buying interface.
They also redesigned it, which is a relief; if I have one complaint about comiXology, it's their tendency to throw a bewildering array of comics onto the screen all at once. The original webstore put a ton of comics on the front page (a page that didn't scroll properly, remember), while this new one mirrors the design of their iPad app, with a smaller selection and tabs to allow the reader to go deeper. Navigation is pretty straightforward—the site is a little slow, but it is still in beta. The comics reader is still in Flash for now.
ComiXology CEO David Steinberger has more details at the comiXology blog, and I spoke to him about the new storefront yesterday. While the iOS app remains the most popular channel, he said, "More and more people actually use our website, once they discover it, to shop and buy, and I hope with the HTML5 release, more will do that." One of the new features of the web store is that users can gift a cart, rather than just a single comic. "Right now we are going to finish releasing all of Bone, so you will be able to add the whole Bone series to your card and gift it to somebody," Steinberger said. "We have Sandman at a very competitive price to the paperback. Comics people create more comics people by getting in tune with their friends and gifting them comics."
Free Comic Book Day is only six months away, and the FCBD folks started the drumbeat on Friday with the announcement of the Gold Sponsor comics. I didn't realize this was a competition:
"We had a record amount of entries from publishers this year with more than forty-five different titles" said FCBD spokesperson Leslie Jackson. "Retailers on the committee had a tough time deciding on which titles to choose for Gold sponsorship, but we're sure fans will be pleased with the line-up for next year."
While the choices may have been difficult, it's hard to imagine that someone couldn't come up with something more enticing than what Image has to offer: "An anthology featuring all-new stories with a mix of Image's old and new best loved characters!" Could you possibly get any vaguer than that? They don't even have a cover design. If my comic got bumped for that, I'd be steaming. On the other hand, Archaia's 48-page hardcover, featuring new material (not reprints or bits of something to come) looks mighty sweet, all the more so because they name names: A Mouse Guard story from David Petersen, a Jim Henson's Labyrinth story by Ted Naifeh and Cory Godbey, a side story from Royden Lepp's new graphic novel Rust, a Cursed Pirate Girl story from Jeremy Bastian, a Cow Boy story by Chris Eliopoulos and Nate Crosby, and a Dapper Men tale from Jim McCann and Janet Lee. There's this year's wow factor.
The line-up actually seemed pretty obvious to me, so I went back and looked at the Gold Sponsors for the past five years. Sure enough, six of the publishers are there every year: Archie, Dark Horse, DC, IDW, Image, Marvel. Since five of these are also Diamond's premier publishers, and Archie is a newsstand juggernaut, there's no surprise there. BOOM! Studios has been a Gold Sponsor for the past four years and Archaia for the past three. The other slots vary: Ape Entertainment was a Gold Sponsor in 2011 and 2010 but is missing this year, and Bongo and Oni are back after a two-year absence. Others who have popped up once or twice in the past five years: NBM/Papercutz (2011), Drawn & Quarterly (2010), Viz (2008 and 2009), Dynamite (2008), Virgin (2008), Gemstone (2007), and Tokyopop (2007).
There's more to come: The Silver Sponsors will be announced next week.
Quick, pop quiz: Who is the only publisher to be releasing monthly material from both Garth Ennis and Kurt Busiek right now? Clue: It's also the only publisher to be putting out regular work from Alex Ross, Scott Beatty and Phil Hester. So why aren't more people paying attention to Dynamite?
I'm kind of fascinated by Ardden Co-President Brendan Deneen's comments at Comic Book Resources about sharing the Flash Gordon license with Dynamite Entertainment, if only because I've been wondering about "shared" licenses for a while.
For those who haven't seen Deneen's comments, he told CBR's Kiel Phegley, "[T]o have someone else come along and start publishing the same character while we're in the middle of our run … yeah, it stings. It kind of feels like someone stabbing you in the back. Sure, they're technically 'allowed' to do this but that doesn't make it any less lame on their part." And … well, I can kind of see his point, on one hand; to have a recognizable brand as your central book is kind of a big deal for any publisher, nevermind a smaller one, and to see that enticement to readers go from being an exclusive thing to something being shared with a larger publisher … Well, that's really got to suck.
I've been thinking lately about the whole "The Big Guy versus The Little Guy" thing, when it comes to comic publishers. Specifically, when it comes to Marvel and other people's comics, and the way that the former really doesn't seem to be looking too good in that area recently.
Digital comics distributor comiXology announced this week that DC Comics, Image, BOOM!, Dynamite and a number of other publishers have signed on with their Digital Storefront Affiliate program.
The program allows retailers to add a comiXology-run store and comics reader to their websites. Without seeing the numbers, it's hard to see how good a deal this is for retailers in terms of how much they make on each book. However, it is a more elegant solution to the digital dilemma than Diamond's digital distribution plan, in which shoppers who are already in the store can buy a download code for a digital comic, and it points to one way that brick-and-mortar retailers can prosper in a changing market: By using their skills and knowledge to sell comics digitally to customers who would never darken the door of a physical comics store.
David Brothers neatly outlines the current digital dilemma in his latest think-piece on digital comics: Publishers (especially DC and Marvel) are deliberately doing a bad job with digital comics so as not to undercut retailers, regarding digital comics as both a threat to the traditional comics infrastructure and too insignificant to bother doing well.
Legal | New York federal judge Colleen McMahon made several decisions last week in the case of Jack Kirby's heirs attempting to terminate Marvel's copyright of his works. The judge agreed with Marvel that it would be premature to make an accounting of how much money is at stake, but rejected a bid by Marvel to throw out the Kirby estate's main counterclaim. She also ruled that the Kirby estate's attempt to reclaim original art is barred by the statute of limitations, counterclaims of breach-of-contract and violation of the Lanham Act were tossed, and Disney will be part of the case, even though Marvel said it shouldn't be.
"In sum, the judge has narrowed the case to its most crucial issue. Both sides disagree about Kirby's working environment in the 1950s and 1960s when he, along with Stan Lee, conceived many of Marvel's most popular characters. The judge will soon be tasked with looking at Kirby's work history and some of the loose contracts and oral agreements that guided his efforts in those years," wrote Eriq Gardner. [The Hollywood Reporter]
Creators | Artist, letterer and colorist John D'Agostino died Nov. 29. D'Agostino started his career as a colorist for Timely Comics and was head of their coloring department for several years. He also worked for Archie Comics, Charlton Comics and Marvel Comics, and lettered the first few issues of Amazing Spider-Man in the 1960s. Tom Spurgeon offers an obituary. [Mark Evanier]
If it's Tuesday, it must be time for Food or Comics?, where every week some of the Robot 6 crew talk about what comics we'd buy if we were subject to certain spending limits — $15 and $30, as well as if we had extra money to spend on what we call our "Splurge" item. Check out Diamond's release list to see what arrives in comic shops this week,then play along in our comments section.
Chris Mautner
If I had $15:
I'd get Batman & Robin #15 ($2.99), the final chapter in the "Batman Must Die" arc, which, I think we can all agree, as been one of the best runs in the series so far, thanks largely to the stellar work of artist Frazer Irving. I'd also get Highland Laddie #3 ($3.99), the latest issue in the Boys spin-off mini-series. I haven't been as impressed with this one as I was with the current storyline in Boys, but I remain ever hopeful that it will come together in some fashion by the end.
If I had $30:
I'd chuck those comics aside like so many election mail flyers and nab Picture This ($29.95), the latest book by Lynda Barry and a sequel to her stellar What It Is. As with that book, this uses collage, comics, autobiography and more to provide an inspirational, thoughtful examination of drawing and the artistic process. I can't wait to sit down with a copy. If it's half as good as its predecessor, it will be fantastic.
If it's Tuesday, it must be time for Food or Comics?, where every week some of the Robot 6 crew talk about what comics we'd buy if we were subject to certain spending limits — $15 and $30, as well as if we had extra money to spend on what we call our "Splurge" item. Check out Diamond's release list to see what arrives in comic shops this week,then play along in our comments section.
JK Parkin
If I had $15 to spend:
Strange Tales 2 #1 ($4.99)
House of Mystery Halloween Annual #2 ($4.99)
Two $5 anthologies that should be well worth the asking price. Strange Tales II, the sequel to Marvel's indie cartoonist anthology from last year, features new stories by Rafael Grampa, Kate Beaton, Frank Santoro, Dash Shaw, Jeff Lemire, Kevin Huizenga, Jhonen Vasquez and many more. House of Mystery Halloween Annual #2, meanwhile, features stories by folks like
Mike Kaluta, Jill Thompson, Chris Roberson, Mike Allred, Matthew Sturges and Peter Milligan. Most notably, it has a new "Lucifer" story by Mike Carey and Peter Gross, which is the big draw for me personally.
Update: I received an advanced copy of this in the mail tonight, and saw that the Madame Xanadu story isn't actually by Mike Kaluta and Jill Thompson, as was noted in the above-linked CBR story. No, the Madame Xanadu story is actually by Matt Wagner and Brandon Graham. And it is pretty awesome.
Welcome to another installment of "Food or Comics?" Every week we set certain hypothetical spending limits on ourselves and go through the agony of trying to determine what comes home and what stays on the shelves. So join Brigid Alverson, Michael May and Chris Mautner as they run down what comics they'd buy if they only had $15 and $30 to spend, as well as what they'd get if they had some "mad" money to splurge with.
Check out Diamond's full release list if you'd like to play along in our comments section.
Chris Mautner
If I had $15:
The latest issue of The Boys is on my pull-list for this week ($3.99) and I'm anxious to see how Hughie reacts after discovering Annie's big, horrible secret last ish. (sounds like I'm talking about a daytime soap, doesn't it? If daytime soaps had more vomiting, cuss words and dismemberment.)
I'll also likely pick up the fifth issue of James Stokoe's Orc Stain ($2.99). I'm coming into the series a little bit late, but based on raves it's been garnering across the Interwebs, I tried a random issue and dang if I wasn't tickled with it's wit and dense world-building sensibilities. Now I'm trying to track down the other issues I've missed.
If I had $30:
There's a lot of good stuff this week, but (assuming I put aside my two previous purchases for a later date) what would easily top my list (and that of my fellow Robot Sixers I'm sure) is Richard Stark's Parker: The Outfit, the second book in Darwyn Cooke's ongoing adaptation of Donald Westlake's (writing under the Stark nom de plume) series of hard boiled crime novels. I hadn't been a Cooke fan previously, but the first book, The Hunter, made me a believer and the recent mini/prologue that IDW released earlier this year, The Man With the Getaway Face, sealed the deal. I'm very much looking forward to reading this.
I've talked before about the oddness of Dynamite's Green Hornet line, I think; the sheer deluge of books so quickly after launch, and the way it makes little sense to me in any way other than ensuring a lot of bookstore product in time for January's movie release. But I've been reading a lot of the books recently, and now I have to admit: It makes even less sense. Continue Reading »
If it's Tuesday, it's time for Food or Comics? Every week we talk about what comics we'd buy if we only had $15 to spend, if we only had $30 to spend and if we had extra money to spend on what we're calling a "Splurge" item.
So join Brigid Alverson, Chris Mautner and me as we run down what we'd buy this week, and check out Diamond's release list to play along in our comments section.
Brigid Alverson
If I had $15…
I'd start with the first issue of Baltimore: The Plague Ships ($3.50), because it's written by Mike Mignola and it has Europe flooded with vampires. Looks like fun. And then, because I can't get enough Mignola, I'll take issue 2 of Hellboy: The Storm ($2.99).
Dark Horse is launching its updated Magnus: Robot Fighter series, written by Jim Shooter, this week. Issue #1 looks pretty sweet, and it's 56 pages for $3.50 (including the original Magnus story from 1963), so I'll give that a try.


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Dear Friends,
We're nearing the end of a busy month of holidays. I hope you enjoy the rest of your celebrations, and if you need any inspiration for meals in the Sukkah or reading on what Simchat Torah is all about, you'll see those below. We also have a December Holiday Survey online now through Oct. 18 with a gift card going out to one lucky entrant. Speaking of the earlier-than-usual-holidays, if you're thinking of sending me holiday story ideas, don't delay!
Chag Sameach (Happy Holidays),
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Josh, Stay Out of This!
Jazz died in 1969 because I was born in 1969. The minute air fills my lungs, jazz stops blowing. Also, man landed on the moon in 1969. But let me be serious for once. The state of black arts has been that of total decline since 1969. (I wrote about this at length for an academic journal out of Columbia UniversitySouls, Winter 2003, Where Is Black Culture? "The Burden of the Golden Age,") If blacks are not making jazz then they are making something that is artistically inferior. Jazz is the peak of black expression. As for Hancock's 70s albums: Hearing them makes me feel much the same way that Jesus felt when he saw merchants in the temple. I want to turn over tables, kick in this, box the ears of that. Hancock, say it aint so. Why have you turned your silver fingers into straw?


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Former school principal signs novel contract
Steve Norwood, a retired Hendersonville public school principal, signed a contract with Abingdon Press to write a novel last week.
"Deep in the Heart," is scheduled to be published in the fall of 2010. The novel will tell the fictionalized story of a remarkable series of experiences by Norland's brother Grover in Texas, a story already memorialized in two video documentaries selling nationwide and under contract as a movie.
"All of our books have exceeded expectations," says Barbara Scott, senior acquisitions editor for fiction at Abingdon Press. "Our promise is that Abingdon Press will inspire you to do no harm, to seek to do good, and to love God."
Retired since 2002, Norwood took some two years to write the novel, working almost daily at it. "Grover Norland" is the central figure in the novel, a family man, an ex-Air Force fighter pilot and a man with a prayer. Grover prays for someone he can help, someone less fortunate who cannot repay him. With that prayer the drama -- and personal tragedy -- begin.
"I actually wrote a screen-play version before I tackled the novel," Norwood says, "but in my notes I had 22,000 words written by Sept. 14, 2007. After I wrote the first few paragraphs, I called my brother, the central figure in the novel, and read them to him. I could tell by his breathless reaction I was on the right track. After that, I couldn't stop writing."
In Norwood's novel, the names of most characters and local churches have bee changed as well as some of the towns mentioned.
"I tried to stay as close to the truth as I knew it to be, but I did add a few semi-fictional scenes to enhance the drama and mystery," Norwood says.
For further information about Deep in the Heart, visit Norwood's Website at http://www.JStephenNorwood.com.
Polk Carson 'plein air' workshops planned
Jim Carson will hold two "plein air" workshops in Saluda. "Painting Fast And Loose/Eliminating The Unnecessary" will be taught Sept. 18-20 and Oct. 22-24.
For information, call 828-749-3702 or visit www.jimcarson.net.
Buncombe Neofotis booksigning
ASHEVILLE -- Peter Neofotis, author of "Concord, Virginia" will be at Malaprops Bookstore at 7 p.m. Aug. 26 for a reading/signing. He has been described as a "Southern folklore genius."
Professor featured in paintings magazine
Virginia Derryberry, a noted painter and University of North Carolina at Asheville art professor, has three paintings titled "Rebis" that were featured in the latest edition of New American Paintings, issue 82. The article details the work of 40 Southeastern painters selected by juror Ron Platt, curator of contemporary art at the Birmingham Museum of Art.
She also has a solo exhibition of paintings from the "Rebis" series planned for the Flood Gallery in the Asheville River District this November.
Registration begins for Fall pottery classes
BREVARD -- Pottery classes for all ages and skill levels will be offered this fall at the Carwile-Dodson for Pottery Instruction on Greenville Highway. Advanced registration is required.
For a complete listing of classes, visit www.muddabbers.com/classes.htm. For information, call 884-5771.
Upstate South Carolina Art Walk Spartanburg
SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Art Walk Spartanburg returns from 5-9 p.m. Thursday. Visitors may walk between the venues guided by posters and maps, or board the Main Street Trolley for assistance in circulating between the exhibits.
At the Chapman Cultural Center on East St. John Street, the Spartanburg Art Museum is hosting "The 36th Annual Artists Guild of Spartanburg Juried Exhibition." In addition, the new exhibit "From Decoration to Passion, Selections from the Heavrin Collection" will feature works by Henry Gasser, Alice Ravenel Huger Smith and Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, among others. The Artists Guild Gallery exhibit is titled "Free Art" by David McPherson.
The Crescent Gallery, 172 East Main St., is hosting an opening reception for "A Collection of Oil Paintings and Pastels by Deborah Squier." Squier will demonstrate the use of pastel during the event. Her work focuses on regional landscapes to encourage viewers to appreciate and conserve the legacy of nature.
Gallery 155, at 155 E. Broad St. is open with a rotating collection of art.
The "Artists Among Us" project is featuring additional photographs at it's new, expanded location at 121 W. Main St. Open only on the night of each Art Walk, this gallery exhibits Stephen Stinson's photographic portraits of artists, reproduced as giclees on canvas by Ed Emory of Carolina Gallery.
Carolina Gallery, 145 W. Main St., is showing a collection of landscapes, figure and still life paintings, as well as sculpture and jewelry by the artists they represent. In the street level exhibition space, there are one or two paintings by several artists, whose work can be seen in greater depth on the second and third floors.
MYST, 154 W. Main St., sister gallery to Carolina Gallery, is exhibiting abstract, surreal and expressive works by more than 20 artists.
Spectrum, 151 W. Main St., is hosting an array of works by artists from the Carolina Foothills Artisan Center in Chesnee. In addition there is a wide selection of affordable framed prints.
Hub-Bub's Showroom, 149 S. Daniel Morgan Ave., is extending an invitation to come by and meet the artists-in-residence who will talk about their work beginning at 6 p.m. and at 7 invite the community to go upstairs and view their studios.
Art Walk Spartanburg returns every third Thursday of the month with all venues open to the public.
For information call 864-585-3335 or visit www.carolinagalleryart.com.
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Should we Lose The Lads' Mags?
The Lose The Lads' Mags campaign is calling on the 'big four' supermarket chains to stop selling lads' mags in their stores. Kat Banyard, author of the Equality Illusion and founder of UK Feminista, explains why she thinks it's time for them to listen.
So - is it time to Lose The Lads' Mags? Tell us what you think on the thread below.
Lose the Lads' Mags campaign
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There's been a deeply damaging screw-up at the headquarters of the 'big four' supermarkets – and it's been dragging on for years. Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons all have a policy of not selling pornographic or 'adult' magazines. And yet day after day, year upon year, these stores have been stocking their shelves with sexist porn mags like Nuts, Zoo, Loaded and Front.
Lawyers have told the retailers that selling them can violate equality legislation. Anti-violence organisations say they fuel attitudes underpinning violence against women. And yet, there they still are, lining the shelves. So just what's going on when self-declared 'family retailers' are willing to breach their own rules and risk legal action in order to sell magazines known to fuel dangerous and misogynistic attitudes towards half the UK's population?
That's exactly what UK Feminista and Object tried to find out when we met representatives from one of these retail giants - Tesco - back in July. Tesco insisted they don't stock magazines classified by the industry as pornographic, that Nuts and Zoo are 'Men's Lifestyle' magazines. Customers writing to them on the issue were told much the same: "Please let me assure you that when selecting our magazine range, we always keep at the front of mind that we are a family retailer and that the product choice needs to be appropriate. We do not stock any publication that we deem would be not suitable to our customers, including any adult titles."…and… "We do not stock any magazines classified by the industry as pornographic". Interesting, because when we posted images from the current editions of Nuts and Zoo on Facebook, another corporate giant with a 'no porn' policy, they were removed. The social networking site issued a message stating the images "violated our Community Standards".
Even staunch lads' mags defender Barry McIheney, CEO of the Professional Publishers Association, admits "these titles certainly contain adult imagery". Barry should know. Back in the early 2000s, as CEO of EMAP Elan publishers, he was the man responsible for launching Zoo. We also commissioned legal advice on the pornographic nature of Nuts, Zoo, Loaded and Front from Hugh Southey, a leading QC at Matrix Chambers. His judgment: "..the images in the editions of Nuts, Zoo, Loaded and Front <here assessed> are plainly pornographic". So why, then, are the 'big four' still actively choosing to stock the likes of Nuts and Zoo - in direct contravention of their own policies?
Why does all this matter so much? Because as the Government- commissioned Sexualisation of Young People Review reported in 2010, "lads' mags promote an idea of male sexuality as based on power and aggression, depicting women as sex objects".
Could it be that the supermarkets have been getting some duff advice on magazine classifications from the industry? We contacted publishers and trade bodies to find out. Turns out, the only part of the industry that classifies Nuts and Zoo as 'Men's Lifestyle' rather than 'adult' or pornographic are Nuts and Zoo themselves. It is a self-assigned classification. It's really not hard to fathom why these magazines would describe themselves as 'Men's Lifestyle'. What's harder to understand is why supermarkets would swallow it.
It's even more perplexing when you consider these stores are risking legal action by stocking Nuts and Zoo. Years ago society decided it unacceptable to have 'girlie calendar'- style images on workplace walls because they can create a hostile and degrading environment for women. The 'big four' supermarkets would never allow the 'girlie calendar'- style covers of lads' mags on their office walls, so why do they have them on their supermarket shelves? It's a question that's prompted 18 leading lawyers to write to retailers warning them that exposing both staff and customers to lads' mags could constitute sexual harassment or sex discrimination under the Equality Act.
Why does all this matter so much? Because as the Government- commissioned Sexualisation of Young People Review reported in 2010, "lads' mags promote an idea of male sexuality as based on power and aggression, depicting women as sex objects and including articles that feature strategies for manipulating women." The American Psychological Association has concluded that viewing media that portrays women as sex objects leads people to become more accepting of sexual harassment, interpersonal violence and rape myths. In essence, lads' mags fuel attitudes underpinning violence against women.
Right now, we have a crisis of violence against women in this country. Rape Crisis report that 85,000 women are raped every single year in England and Wales alone, while one in three girls has been subjected to sexual abuse from a boyfriend. If we're serious about tackling this, we need to join the dots between sexist violence and the cultures and attitudes in daily life that give rise to it. A society in which the biggest 'family' retailers deem it so normal and acceptable to view women as dehumanised sex objects that they choose to line their shelves with magazines dedicated to it is a society in which women and girls can never be safe.
That's why Women's Aid, Imkaan and the End Violence Against Women coalition are among the organisations urging the 'big four' supermarkets to stop selling sexist lads' mags like Nuts and Zoo. They're joined by 1.3 million member strong trade union, Unison, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, 18 top lawyers and thousands of customers. Together we're not asking for any new laws or regulations. Tesco, Morrisons, Asda and Sainsbury's already have policies in place (and legal responsibilities) that mean harmful lads' mags like Nuts and Zoo should never have been added to their product order lists in the first place.
So far, only the Co-operative has taken significant action. As a result of lads' mags failing to meet the retailer's new packaging demands, Nuts, Zoo and Front are no longer sold in the Co-operative's 4000 stores. It's now vital the 'big four' listen to the anti-violence organisations, shareholders, customers, lawyers, trade unionists and teachers all urging them to lose the lads' mags.
Do you think the 'big four' supermarket chains should stop selling lads' mags? Tell us what you think here on the thread.
By Kat Banyard
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No, indeed, there's no contradiction whatsoever, didn't mean to imply otherwise.
So is the answer that all magazines which are displayed where children can see them should have bland, harmless covers? How about newspapers? (Whole other issue on how much more/less harm is done to children if they see 'Benefit Scroungers Ate My Hamster' or a photograph of a burning building surrounded by corpses on fire). Just how much do children need to be 'sheltered' from the idea that people have different opinions and that sometimes bad things happen?
"depicting women as sex objects and including articles that feature strategies for manipulating women."
And what on earth does Cosmopolitan do? No, how to get and keep your man articles and how to get him to give you what you want in bed.
No it's all cup cake recipes and book reviews of homely novels.
I'm sorry but I think this is taking feminism a step too far.
Actually, no I'm not sorry.
I agree with what the others have said about weekly magazines aimed at women etc and that the headlines on these are possibly more distressing than the covers of lads mag.
But when did being a feminist give any person the right to dictate what should be on the shelves in the magazine section. Maybe McDonalds should stop selling burgers as vegetarians don't like it, pubs shouldn't sell alcohol in case someone tee total walks in.
Maybe we should just ban reading, ban the internet and make everyone walk around with their eyes closed so that no one gets offended at what they perceive to be wrong.
Cosmo Magazine
This is acceptable though, because it empowers women, right?
Lads mags are terrible, I mean they claim a woman who may look a little bloated must be heavily pregnant, have stories about incest, rape and murder all over there front page each week and make the fact that you're not a size 6 feel like you're obese. They also run stories about footballers wives fantastic lives each week to show young girls what to aspire too.
(sorry to rant but I hate mags like Ok/Hello etc as much)
I worked part time in a newsagents a couple of years ago and zoo/Nuts were age restricted by the way.
The whole issue of censorship because you don't like it sounds like something you would find in Russia. I don't like Banyards books... does that mean I can get them banned?
No doubt at the end of this she will come out with a new book and guest speaking gigs so her purse will be filled,
if lads mags are going to be restricted because children might see it then what else are we as a society looking at restricting? theres a whole lot more damaging stuff than some boobs in a magazine. yeah i get the feminist principle and i agree to a certain extent. but if you took this further, what else would we have to ban to make every environment squeaky clean for children?
I don't know of many feminists who defend Cosmo.
At least not nowadays. Maybe in the past it had a different slant, I think so but don't know.
Cosmo is all about what you can do to keep your man happy - that's the opposite of empowerment surely.
I don't get the argument that there is lots of shit out there so lets throw our hands up to heaven in despair and do nothing at all.
I agree about Cosmo - how it was in the 1970s is absolutely nothing like the mag now.
But the issue here isn't really censorship. I wouldn't call for any of these magazines to be banned. I am however very concerned about what images are readily on display in ordinary shops.
I've never heard a bloke harassing women, inspired by reading cosmo.... Imagine that hanging off the scaffold "Errrrr you look like you've been taking on 10 tips to really drive your man wild darlin'!"
When real life men judge and harass women in the street, or pressure them in intimate relationships - they use the language and mind-set of lad's mags and tabloid sexism. Lad's mags make that harassment of women seem normal and something to be put up with. If you object you are accused of being a prude.
So lads mags and women's mags are not on a par because encouraging men to act like arseholes has an impact women can't avoid, but you can more easily stop cosmos messages affecting you - not that I think that corrosive shit is above reproach either.
Speaking as a mother whose 6 year old daughter was sexually assaulted at school and with 1 in 3 girls suffering same fate (NSPCC) and with schools not dealing with this at all, I think both lads mags and women's mags that sensationalise violence against women and children are part of the same problem - they are chauvinist or women and children hating in their editorial bias. They are both setting a climate where girls are seen as inferior humans that are only good for sex or baiting, and both sexes can believe in male supremacy rather than equality and respect. The lads mags have been pro porn for years and have acted as a gateway to an on line media that references women and children by dehumanising names such as wh*re and bi*ch and has storylines that portray female or child rape victims as liars who have trapped or conned men into sex and then turned on them. Remember, it was the feminist movement that fought against child abuse victims being called child prostitutes and for the right to rape being taken out of marriage. That only happened 20 years ago ... those were chauvinistic values. Is that really what people here want to return to? These chauvinistic values which are pushed by the lads mags are what shielded Jimmy Saville for years, even up to the editor of Newsnight stating that they wouldn't expose JS because they 'only' had the victims words for what happened, as if women were inherantly less trustworthy than men, now where would he have got an attitude as biaised as this? Could it be the media he watches ... since 98% of men between 18 - 44% use porn media up to 2 hours a week ... they say you can tell a lot about a person from the kind of media they use and I think people are beginning to lose their ability to assess equal human rights for women and children through using sexualised hate media such as porn.
Lads mags used to be called 'porn' they were age-restricted and put on the top shelf and covered. By calling them 'lad's mags' and not 'porn' Nuts and Zoo have been able to market them to teenage boys. That makes seeing women as sex entertainment normal and influences boys in the way they view and treat girls.For those who scream 'censorship' or say 'it doesn't bother me', fine, but have you talked to the young girls this attitude affects? These magazines teach boys how to be 'real men', the power of conditioning is huge. The public visible display of these mags conditions both boys and girls to accept that women's role is to sexually entertain men.
Women's mags are the result of decades of publicly accepted sexual objectification of women, which has led women to self-objectify and compete with each other to be the 'perfect' lads mag ideal woman whose only purpose is to have a slim body with big tits to win her man.
Yes women's mags are awful but we need to challenge the root cause of women's body-obsession and insecurity, which is the drip-drip of social conditioning over the years through Page 3 and lads mags.
Oh FFS. SO before there was any mainstream porn, women lived happy lives as complete equals of men? We've had centuries of superstitious bullshit to the effect that women are men's property; women within living memory (ie ask your gran) were not allowed to get a mortgage or open a bank account or rent a flat without ^permission from their male owner^; less than 100 years ago rape victims were locked up in mental homes on the grounds that they were 'morally inferior' or something... We still have men insisting that their imaginary friend allows them to force women to cover themselves up on pain of beating or execution, we still have men allowing women to die rather than terminate failing pregnancies... and yet twats like Banyard are far more concerned with wailing and flailing about 'porn culture' than anything else.
Fact of the day, nothing bad in the world happened towards women before page 3 or pornography were invented. It's too easy to point fingers at magazines etc nowadays.
Oh FFS SGB right back at you.
There is a problem here, as clearly outlined by previous posters, including someone whose daughter was assaulted.
If you think pop culture has no impact on people I think you are not paying attention. If I'm wrong argue the point. If there's no need to oppose objectification of women women that would be superfantastic and we can all cross that off our do-to lists.
That has nothing to do with your imaginary friend hobby horse, but hop up on it anyway.
SGB, there is such a wide variety of ways in which women are wronged by men that I really can't take issue with women fighting back at any particular section of the overall bullshit that they choose. Every woman to her own personal battle; all are equally valid.
Most humans are interested in sexualised imagery aren't they? Whether they admit it or not. We're programmed to be interested in it, just look at the popularity of 50 Shades of Grey, and for that matter that the most searched for terms on the internet are all to do with sex.
What needs to happen is a realisation by their readers that these magazines don't do anything to inspire, beautify, enlighten and fulfill our sexual inquisitiveness, but do the exact opposite. They dull the human experience of sexual knowledge to a vapid, dull, homogenous depiction of objectified beings.
The objectification of women is everywhere, it permeates from so much of our mainstream media. Once you open your eyes to it, you see it everywhere.
I'm not against literature that enhances and informs our sexual journey in life, but that won't be found in Nuts or Zoo.
Supermarket shelves are definitely NOT the place for this stuff to be on show.
When the Co-op started putting modesty bags over Nuts and Zoo (and then stopped selling them when threatened by the magazine owners) it was such a brilliant moment.
For once, the treatment of women was being put above profit.
Magazines like Zoo are giving our boys the impressions that it's ok to act like sexism is sexy and giving girls the impressions that their bodies and looks are the most crucial things about them.
Next stop: let's sort the nonsense that's in loads of women's magazines! and let our girls grow up as humans not objects :-)
SGB Oh FFS. SO before there was any mainstream porn, women lived happy lives as complete equals of men?
What are you saying there? - That because some things have got/are getting better for women then all things are getting better for women and nothing is getting worse for women? Backlash perhaps?
We've had centuries of superstitious bullshit to the effect that women are men's property; women within living memory (ie ask your gran) were not allowed to get a mortgage or open a bank account or rent a flat without ^permission from their male owner^; less than 100 years ago rape victims were locked up in mental homes on the grounds that they were 'morally inferior' or something... We still have men insisting that their imaginary friend allows them to force women to cover themselves up on pain of beating or execution, we still have men allowing women to die rather than terminate failing pregnancies...
So clearly your main gripe is with religious patriarchs and their oppression of women. But you don't seem to take exception to the whore/madonna dichotomy stemming from religious patriarchal notions of female sexuality, which has been the major misogynist justification for controlling women for centuries. Themes of sexual women being 'dirty', 'whores' who 'need' to be punished by violent and humiliating bodily exposure and violation (or alternatively need to be 'modest' & covered) - don't stem from secular egalitarianism do they? 'Porn culture' is the modern commercial bi-product of religious patriarchal control of women's bodies and its misogynist themes run throughout.
and yet twats like Banyard are far more concerned with wailing and flailing about 'porn culture' than anything else.
I find your inconsistency in railing against religious misogyny, but not its bi-product of porn culture, and your level of aggression about others who have a more consistent view, says more about your conflicted feelings about your own porn use than your feelings about Kat Banyard.
This is where I get confused again.
I disagree with porn, lads' mags on general view and the objectifying of women by women's magazines that turns them into nothing more than continuous works in progress that only need to have the right diet, sex tips, makeup and the rest to be Real Women.
But if there was a Lads' Mag with this uk.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2013730/rs_560x415-130830150852-1024..miley-cyrus-twerk-vma.ls.83013.jpg on the cover, is that exploitation, or empowerment of women?
To me it is verging on pornographic.
If lads' mags do indeed "fuel … violence against women", you'd expect an increase in violence against women to coincide with increased sales of lads' mags. In fact, the opposite is the case. Lads' mags first appeared in the mid-90s and the most popular ones, such as Loaded, sold upwards of 450,000 at their peak, yet between 1997 and 2009 incidents of domestic violence fell by 64 per cent, according to British Crimes Survey.
If there's a link between pornography and violence against women – as UK feminista claim – you'd expect sexual and domestic violence to increase year on year, as more and more people gain access to pornography on the Internet. But according to the Office of National Statistics, the number of victims of sexual assault decreased between 2004/05 and 2008/09 and "has shown no statistically significant change" between then and 2011/12.
This suggests that if there is a link between sexualised images of women and sexual and domestic violence, it is the opposite of the one groups like UK Feminista imagine.
So mitchvon: is the suggestion then that women can reduce violence against themselves by tolerating (or even embracing) porn?
If so, that sounds like the familiar blaming the victim syndrome i.e. let yourselves be objectified women, then you are less likely to get attacked.
I'm sure that cannot be what you mean, can it?
While i agree with some of what you say (i prefer mags like Psychologies but their sales have dropped by 45% in the last year according to ABC circulation figures) it is not women who have abused me in the street in the past because of my size (i used to be a size 28 then dropped to a 14 , am now a 20) it is MEN who have shouted out all sorts of nasty mysogynistic sizeist comments in the street and i really dont think they have been reading Glamour.
I was on a rare night out a while ago with a friend and a bloke commented on the size of her chest. She is slim and small His comment "Blimey you are hardly Nuts material are you?
THIS is why i would prefer the lads mags to go first and then we can start tackling the celebrity rags
I completely get what Solid is saying though. Most religions are mysogynistic and reinforce ownership of women. And the climate we are in today does exactly the same thing.
Having said that i HATE Heat and Closer with a passion. And if you look at mags like Woman and Womans Own they are now VERY celebrity orientated as well.
Woman and Closer seem to have it in for single mums on benefit and will occasionally run a "story" about a single parent whipping up both mysogyny AND class hatred.
Closer even did it to a carer once. I started a thread on it on here I will see if i can find it.
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