 abound, while frown or laugh lines are nowhere to be seen. In contrast, many of the men pictured are older, and look it: peppery gray hair and wrinkles are not uncommon sights on men. Men, too, are allowed to keep their clothing on (and in layers, to boot!). The prevalence of and disparity in plastic surgery remains the primary focus of Zanardo’s critique; however, sexualization, dehumanization and objectification are all evident and problematic as well.
On another channel, a woman wearing a tuxedo top and bikini bottoms hangs by a hook, her own legs dangling among haunches of ham, which are also clad in bikini bottoms. She kicks and squirms as a man brands her buttocks with a stamp.
How very humane of them.
Note in the first screenshot how the woman must crawl around (“like an animal”) at the male host’s feet in order to climb into her cage; this positioning seems particularly demeaning.
Moving on, the second example is one I’m more interested in, at least in relation to this post. It’s yet another in a long line of imagery that links consumable animals with consumable women, by either sexing up farmed animals and/or disembodied “meat” products in a uniquely feminine way, or by depicting women as one might a piece of “meat.” Each practice is equally despicable, as neither women nor animals are objects to be exploited at will: both are sentient beings who can think, feel and suffer; love and are loved; and value their own families, lives and wills. A cow is more like a woman, than she is a carrot. Like a human woman, she deserves to live unmolested, in peace.
The “woman in a butcher shop” footage is shown at the end of the film, perhaps because it’s among the most appalling examples of misogyny included therein.
Note the bemused gentleman who appears in on the bottom of the screen in the second screenshot. The “meat’s” father, I presume?
For what it’s worth, I doubt that many porcines derive pleasure from the suffering of their sisters, daughters, mothers and female friends. Nope, that’s primarily a human trait, my friends. “Humanity,” indeed.
* I’ve no idea whether this phrase translates as intended (i.e., Women’s Bodies, Animals’ Bodies), but it represents my best guess given Google Translator’s (characteristic) absurdity.
** I filed this post under “Sexy Meat” as well as “Consuming Women” because the final segment of the video involves elements of each: not only is the woman shown hanging from a meat hook “like pork”; the many haunches of “ham” sport bikini bottoms, like the woman. Each form of oppression enforces and reinforces the other; no one is free while others are oppressed.
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A brand new dice of coloured hydrogel blocks would possibly encourage new methods to retailer and detect data and presumably even assist sufferers monitor their medical situations.
The dice, which seems and acts like a Rubik’s Dice, incorporates rotatable particular person rows and columns; manipulating them adjustments the colour sample on the dice’s six faces.
However not like the inflexible plastic of a Rubik’s Dice, the brand new construction is manufactured from a self-healing hydrogel, a squishy polymer materials that may take up giant quantities of water and type new chemical bonds when previous bonds break.
The workforce got here up with the construction as half of a bigger effort to seek out new methods to encode data into bodily objects.
“Consider QR codes, that are patterns of black and white pixels on a two-dimensional floor used to retailer data,” says Jonathan Sessler, a professor of chemistry on the College of Texas at Austin and coauthor of the paper within the journal Superior Supplies.
Mathematicians estimate that there are roughly 43 quintillion—that’s 43 instances 10 to 18th energy—distinctive configurations of a Rubik’s Dice, suggesting one dice may retailer an unlimited quantity of data.
Scientists coloured the 27 constructing blocks within the dice utilizing a brand new class of fluorescent dots invented by Ben Zhong Tang, a chemist on the Hong Kong College of Science and Know-how. Xiaofan Ji, a former postdoctoral researcher at College of Texas at Austin, now working in Tang’s lab, led the venture.
When elements of a self-healing hydrogel tear aside after which reattach in a special orientation, new chemical bonds type to carry it within the new configuration. One of many challenges with making the brand new squishy Rubik’s Dice was to make the bonds weak sufficient that individuals may simply rotate rows by hand, but sturdy sufficient for the entire construction to retain its form.
Researchers must do extra work earlier than they’ll apply the innovation to information storage, or for different purposes, equivalent to in wearable sensors monitoring a affected person’s chemical adjustments, for instance, in somebody with diabetes.
Within the 1980s, Sessler used arithmetic to seek out totally different sequence of rotations that he may use to rearrange colour patterns on a Rubik’s Dice in a managed means. With sufficient time, he may take a scrambled dice and restore it to its authentic situation, with stable colours on every face.
The Nationwide Science Basis of China, the Analysis Grant Council of Hong Kong, the Science and Know-how Plan of Shenzhen, the Innovation and Know-how Fee (China), the US Nationwide Science Basis, and the Robert A. Welch Basis funded the work.
After Thugs of Hindostan, Hrithik Roshan-Tiger Shroff’s Battle to get the most important Bollywood launch in India?Sort of. Each “generation” runs 20 years, as that’s typically the time for a woman to grow up and start having her own kids. But Gen X is the first generation to delay getting married and having kids because of college, debt, and other social factors (obviously some did). But women can typically give birth into their 40’s, and the last of the boomers were 21 when “Millennials” started being born, so there is a lot of overlap.

It’s not about what generation your parents were but when you grew up, as that defines the social/political/economic pressures that shaped youAll three Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judges whose terms expire in 2014 — one-third of the nine-member panel — have elected not to seek another term, setting the stage for unusually high turnover on the state’s highest criminal court.
Judges Cathy Cochran, Tom Price and Paul Womack each confirmed this week that they will not run for re-election in 2014. At least eight individuals have filed forms indicating they have appointed treasurers for campaigns to fill those seats, according to the Texas Ethics Commission. Candidates don’t officially file to run for state offices until later this year.
The retiring judges together have more than 40 years experience serving on the appeals court.
“Three terms is enough, and I’ve reached retirement age,” he said.
Price, who has also served on the court since 1997, did not comment about the reason for his decision not to run for a fourth term.
University of Texas School of Law professor Jennifer Laurin said the large turnover at the court could have a dramatic impact on the decisions that the panel issues on critical criminal justice issues.
For example, Cochran, Price and Womack all joined in the majority opinion released this month in the Steven Staley case, agreeing with Judge Elsa Alcala that the mentally ill death row inmate should not be forcibly medicated and that without the medication he was incompetent for execution.
The three judges, she said, have often been in the majority on the recent opinions with a consistent trend toward opening up cases that would otherwise have been closed in light of new scientific developments.
“A number of those decisions could have gone the other way” without those three judges on the panel, Laurin said.
Just how different the court — and its decisions — will be after the elections will depend on who the winners are and the judicial philosophies they bring to the bench, she said.
Mallin, who has practiced before the court since the 1970s, said that he has viewed the its decisions over the last decade as “middle of the road.” And that’s where he’d like the court to remain.
Within hours of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion advocates and activists hosted rallies in South Florida
By Marissa Bagg • Published 2 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago
They saw this coming, and still, abortion rights activists are stunned that the protections Roe v. Wade provided women were taken away.
“All I can feel is anger, anger that our rights have been ripped away once again," said one demonstrator Friday in downtown Miami, hours after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
“Like many women in Florida, I’m sick to my stomach because our right to choose is in the hands of Florida, which has attacked our right