January 2012
14 posts
9-year-old Autistic student stuffed into duffle... →
Please sign this petition.
When Sandra Baker was called to pick up her 9-year-old autistic son, Chris, from his Mercer County, Kentucky school, she was stunned by what she found: She says that Chris’s teacher had stuffed him in a gym bag and left him in the hallway as
punishment.
“When I walked in,” Sandra told CBS News, “I went down his hallway, and I saw this big green...
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VA Planned Parenthood under legislative attack! →
Just received this email.
“In a backdoor attack on women’s health, Gov. Bob McDonnell (R)
has signed oppressive temporary abortion clinic regulations. After the
passage of SB 924, an independent medical committee drafted health
center regulations based on sound medical evidence. However, extremist
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli politicized the process and added many
onerous,...
December 2011
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antology asked: Would you elaborate on these...
themalefeminist:
Absolutely!
“TMF does not think women can’t speak for themselves.”
Feminism is not just for women. Men benefit a lot from embracing it and learning about how their livelihoods have been shaped and guided by strict gender roles. As a male who writes about feminism, it’s important that I understand that, although I research, write about, and talk about feminism all the time,...
Traditional male gender roles can hinder good... →
“Sociology as a discipline investigates the conditions that lead to inequality...”
– In reply to, “Sociology is just a bunch of left-wing dogma!” (via socmajor)
Of course sociologists are always going to be called liberal left-wing nuts. YOU try spending 4+ years studying and researching poverty and unequal social and economic conditions and try to stay a conservative. If you...
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STFU Fauxminists!: Female privilege? →
brightblackdaylight:
As feminists, we tend to think a lot about male privilege (stuff like the fact that men are more likely to be bosses and CEOs and less likely to get raped), but not very much about female privilege. I stumbled across this, a list of female privileges:
As a woman …
1….
I’ve reblogged this as a link for its length. Click on the link and visit STFU...
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Macy's Fired this Poor Christian Woman for... →
stfutransphobes:
At least, that’s how I read it from AFA. Apparently someone walked out of the changing rooms marked “woman” and the Christian employee said that they wouldn’t be allowed back in because they were clearly not a woman. When the customers replied with Macy’s pro-LGBT policies, the woman claimed constitutional protection to practice her religion, which apparently includes violating...
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sociolab:
knowapower:
I think in general TV is used as a tool by those in power to distract people from what is going on in the world.
I do think that TV can be used as an educational tool if a person chooses what they watch carefully, I think as educational tools books and the internet are better than TV.
Completely agree. This is why I’m happy not having cable. I think its important to...
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South Carolina man threw a 12-pound bowling ball... →
stfurapeculture:
feistyfeminist:
Rape culture is when men feel so entitled to have access to women that they throw bowling balls at us when they are denied.
See, Augusta? Men have it just as bad because women call them “pigs” and “misogynists.” This totally happens to guys, too.
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“This doesn’t mean that a “good man” is always in the wrong when he’s arguing...”
– - Hugo Schwyzer, in a blog post regarding his resignation from the Good Men Project following founder Tom Matlack’s revelation that he’s not so good.
This is just one part of a very good article. I recommend reading it, and if you can stomach the defensiveness of a fauxminist dude, the entire...
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I also run STFUTransphobes →
In case you are looking to help promote anti-transphobia, please follow STFUTransphobes.
“Undergraduates don’t have the same problems with writing that older people have....”
– Writing For Social Scientists by Howard S. Becker (via sociolab)
I don’t find writing about Sociology scary, I find it necessary. It’s getting people to listen that’s the hard part.
Free Academic Journals →
socmajor:
SocMajor.com has a list of free, open-access academic journals in Social Science and Law & Poltiics. Enjoy!
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entropyforever replied to your link: Shop on Amazon = Raise Money
Is this only for the holiday season?
This is forever! We’re just hoping that the holiday season motivates more people to use Amazon through our link.
Shop on Amazon = Raise Money →
Lawsonry has been engaged in the SJ community for a long time, and as any of our long-time followers know we value education and ambition above all else. That’s why we’re encouraging all of our Tumblr followers to shop on Amazon to use this Amazon link when they’re heading to Amazon for their last-minute Christmas shopping, because 10% of all sales go directly to Lawsonry and our...
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Watch
chawlz:
imerasingyouandimhappy:
timazimmer:
holy shit. my favorite video ever.
that was beautiful
Very cool.
feminist slut: A moment of silence... →
iamateenagefeminist:
TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE CULTURE/VICTIM BLAMING
lessonsindamagecontrol:
For today, ignorance won. Congratulations. 3,652 people signed a misguided and truly ignorant petition.
The Vermont Gamma chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon has had their charter revoked by…
This should be saved as how NOT to be a male ally.
What would you like to see at SocMajor.com? →
socmajor:
We’ve got our theme up, we’ve got our resource section growing every day, and now as we add constantly to our library and concepts page we are soliciting our Tumblr followers for some more ideas for Sociology resources.
Reply to this post with:
What you would like SocMajor to add,
What you would like to have removed,
How we can attract more contributors
Remember: SocMajor is a...
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If the sight of a parent breastfeeding their child...
"Intro to Sociology" Questions and Answers →
socmajor:
We’ve completed 7 blocks of questions and answers for the Intro to Sociology student. These questions focus primarily on an introduction to contemporary sociology, but they should help any beginner sociology student nonetheless. Enjoy!
There’s over 100 questions from an Intro to Sociology class that should help anyone looking to pass a test, study, or just have a knowledge...
35 Facts That Demonstrate Higher Education is a... →
#1 After adjusting for inflation, U.S. college students are borrowing about twice as much money as they did a decade ago.
#2 According to the College Board, college tuition is absolutely soaring. The following comes from a recent CBS News article….
Average tuition and fees at public colleges rose 8.3 percent this year and, with room and board, now exceed $17,000 a year, according to the...
Arguing with evangelists
I quote the gospel of Matthew to discuss how Jesus would have endorsed social welfare programs, and I am declared a radical liberal misinterpreting the bible to serve some progressive communist agenda.
Its from YOUR religion, not mine. But religious text doesn’t matter - it’s all about who interprets it and for what agenda.
No more virgins if women can drive, oh and... →
Patriarchy is real, and this is just disgusting.
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Assignment was to write a 4 page paper on...
Here I am turning in 15 pages.
To all the new followers
I posted a picture of me in drag and got 54 new followers. Tumblr, you’re awesome!
Welcome to Lawsonry, which is a Tumblr for the online journal for social progress. We are actually three separate things, and I encourage you to check them all out:
First, we are a journal. www.Lawsonry.com
Second, we are a Tumblr.
Third, we are a Sociology Major resource, www.SocMajor.com
If you like to...