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New Documentary: The Illusionists
Writer and director Elena Rossini has released the first four minutes of The Illusionists. I’m really excited to see the rest. The documentary is a critique of a high standard of beauty but, unlike...
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Sunday Fun: Breast, Chests, and Double Standards
Found at A Whole Lot of Something. Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and...
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Race in the NFL Draft
In case you were wondering, race is still important in the U.S., including in American sports. Deadspin put out a neat tool just in time for NFL draft weekend, allowing readers to see for themselves...
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Louis C.K. on Assortative Mating
Usually, you want to match up with someone at about your level, or a little higher. The trouble is that many people overestimate their own level. Maybe that’s especially true of men. One summer many...
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Is Walking Overrated?
A few days ago, Juliano Pinto kicked off the World Cup with a first kick. It was a media stunt designed to make us verklempt. Pinto is a paraplegic who wore a mind-controlled robotic exoskeleton to...
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Overweight Americans Have the Lowest Risk of Premature Death
Last year the Journal of the American Medical Association released a study aiming to determine the relationship between body mass index and the risk of premature death. Body mass index, or BMI, is the...
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Julie Chen Explains Why She Underwent “Westernizing” Surgery
Eyelid surgery is the third most common cosmetic procedure in the world. Some are necessary for drooping eyelids that interfere with vision, others are undertaken in order to enable people to look...
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W.E.B. DuBois on the Indifference of White America
W.E.B. DuBois (1934): The colored people of America are coming to face the fact quite calmly that most white Americans do not like them, and are planning neither for their survival, nor for their...
View Article10 Honest Thoughts on Being Loved by a Skinny Boy
Today is Love Your Body Day and is this is our favorite body positive post of the year, re-posted in celebration. Rachel Wiley delivers a provocative poem about her experience as a “fat girl” loved by...
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Physiognomy: Faces, Bodies, and the “Science” of Human Character
Flashback Friday. Reader Lindsey H. sent me a copy of a book called Vaught’s Practical Character Reader, apparently published in 1902 and revised in 1907 by Emily H. Vaught. Also available on Amazon....
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Fat shaming. It’s a thing.
According to Nicole Arbout’s youtube video “Dear Fat People,” fat people deserve to be ridiculed and treated poorly. The comedian mocks obese people and accuses them of being lazy, smelly,...
View ArticleMisty Copeland and the Newness of the Ballerina Body
Many hope that Misty Copeland is ushering in a new era for ballet. She is the first female African American ballet dancer to have the role of Principal Dancer at the American Ballet Theatre. She has...
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When Your (Brown) Body is a (White) Wonderland
Assigned: Life with Gender is a new anthology featuring blog posts by a wide range of sociologists writing at The Society Pages and elsewhere. To celebrate, we’re re-posting four of the essays as this...
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Trump’s Brilliant Manipulation of the Science of Group Conflict
Why do so many Americans continue to support Donald Trump with such fervor? Hillary Clinton now leads Donald Trump in presidential polls by double-digits, but Trump’s hardiest supporters have not only...
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Research Finds Obesity is in the Eye of the Beholder
In an era of body positivity, more people are noting the way American culture stigmatizes obesity and discriminates by weight. One challenge for studying this inequality is that a common measure for...
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