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157.2 million
The number of females in the United States as of Oct. 1, 2010. The number of males is 153.2 million.
Source: US Census Bureau
Earnings, women to men
$36,278
The median annual earnings of women 15 or older who worked year-round, full time, in 2009, up 1.9 percent from $35,609 in 2008 (after adjusting for inflation). Women earned 77 cents for every $1 earned by men, unchanged for several years running.
Source: US Census Bureau
Education, women to men
35%
Percentage of women 25 to 29 who had obtained a bachelor's degree or more as of 2009, which exceeded that of men in this age range—27%.
55%
Percentage of college students in fall 2008 who were women.
58%
Percentage of women 25 to 29 who held advanced degrees in 2009, which exceed that of men in this age range—42%.
Source: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2009
Political representation, women to men 112th Congress
16.8%
Percentage of women in Congress.
17
Number of women out of 100 U.S. Senators
74
Number of women out of 435 U.S. Representatives. (3 are Delegates) (Of the 74 women in the House, 50 are Democrats, including the 3 Delegates, and 24 are Republicans. Of the 17 women serving in the Senate, 12 are Democrats and 5 are Republicans.)
Source: Congressional Research Service
Rapes or sexual assault against women, 2007
248,300
The majority of US citizens are women; Women are more highly educated in the U.S; Women are continually paid less--by almost 25 percent--than men. Despite a vast pipeline of women in the professional workforce, they are relegated to non-alpha positions. Women are given miniscule representation in government even as they are the majority of the population. Women are largely relegated (most often by so-called progressives) to represent only Democrats in Congress. A staggering national assault occurs daily against women’s bodies with scant attention paid by male-dominated media.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice
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Benedict Cumberbatch is happy to use naked girls to pimp his ass to richdom--Sherlock does DominatrixFriday, January 6, 2012 at 12:07 pm — admin
 Liberal Dude Nation never has any, not even the smallest, objection to sexualizing women in order to make themselves a bit more money. Here is {from the AP}Benedict Cumberbatch is shrugging off British newspaper criticism of his female co-star's nude scene in TV's latest season of "Sherlock." Cumberfuck goes on to say that More from the AP In this week's BBC-aired episode titled "A Scandal in Belgravia," Holmes has a close encounter with a whip-smart dominatrix, Irene Adler (Lara Pulver), who gets under his skin by flashing much of hers. Some detractors said the scene was too racy to air early in the evening, when children are more likely to be watching TV. ------------------------------- If only women would say I object to becoming objects of derision on TV or sexed up toys we'd be like blacks who got rid of nigger a long time ago. Instead we are all dumb bitches ready to stripped down for the sake of making men richer. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/01/06/entertainmen... |
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A few facts: *The character
A few facts:
*The character Lara Pulver is playing is based on Irene Adler, who was immensely sexually daring for her time period and yet was still a good person and got away with outsmarting Holmes. To create the same shock value it had in Victorian England, they use nudity, lesbianism, and BDSM.
*Irene does not go nude just to entice Sherlock, she does it because it keeps him from figuring her out using her clothing/grooming habits/etc. The scene is not just for titillation and ends up playing a part in the plot (the key to the safe that saves Sherlock's best friend's life is her measurements).
*In the same episode, Benedict Cumberbatch goes nude himself! Granted, it's but for a moment and all we get is shirtlessness and a flash of ass, but it's still at least a stab at equal-opportunity.
The episode IS sexist, but not because of its nudity. It's sexist due to the ending and the way Irene is drawn as a character, which takes all the agency and power out of her position and makes her subservient to Sherlock. But complaining "Oh god, a naked lady on TV!" is counterproductive.
Interesting comment and
Interesting comment and appreciated.
We are not saying Oh, God a naked lady on TV; we are saying that Hollywood has a terrible pattern of sexualizing women to make money and the result is a society that deems women less than as well as objects. There are studies to show this, such as when young men see nudish women on TV the part of their brains associated with inanimate tools lights up. And the more TV a dude watches the more he relegates women to subservient positions. We didn't like the extreme happiness of Cumberfuck to say hey if a nude women makes me bucks that is just fab. It is that thinking that make this world an uphill climb for all woman.
We appreciate you thoughts and they are productive but I can assure you ours are as well. And btw, porn is not on my chopping block because kids don't grow up seeing that on TV or the big screen, but maybe I'm wrong about that...not sure.
I know that it was wrong to
I know that it was wrong to show such scenes before the watershed, but Cumberbatch has a point. It's good publicity, and if Lara Pulver didn't want to do the scene she wouldn't have- she's the one making the most money out of it! It's wrong to point the blame at him. He's been naked for roles too, or does that make the women on the set at the time pigs also?
It's the historical context.
It's the historical context. I point to those who say cracker for white person is not a bad as nigger for black person. They are correct. Our society has never hypersexualized men as a means of subduing them. We have such diminished power for women.
Why is it that LDN sees overall cultural context for blacks and how we protray them in media and how we might use or misuse them to make money but is blind to the degradation of women.
Yes, Cumberbatch is just a guy trying to make a buck. And the gal did take off her clothes. But then there were plenty of slaves who didn't want to leave the plantation.
I was watching Fox today and
I was watching Fox today and three women pundit from both aisles agreed on the "extreme sexualization of women in America" and this Cumberbatch is right up there in Hollywood with his new role in War Horse.
What a pig. Cool that he gets to make more money when a woman he works with is naked on the set.
Bend his ass over and let's all have a second to insert a dime.
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