This fine film attempts to cloak fifties “happy homemaker” stereotyping in the mantle of science. It opens as Janice and Carol, two sisters, try to decide which classes they want to attend next semester. Janice remarks that she wants to take some courses in Home Ec, to which Carol is aghast. “Home Economics?” she scoffs. “Why in the world do you want to take Home Economics?” Janice is not easily dissuaded, and replies “Why? Because that’s something I’m gonna need to KNOW. If I’m gonna be a homemaker the rest of my life, I want to know what I’m doing!”
To confirm her point of view, Janice visits “Miss Jenkins,” her Home Ec teacher, who explains that Home Economics isn’t just baking and sewing; it teaches “the fundamental principals of food buying” and “the psychology of clothing.” “Present-day textiles cannot be judged with confidence just by casual examination,” Miss Jenkins cautions, as we see shots of girls peering through microscopes and stretching cloth swatches on a mechanical rack. If Janice decides not to get married (“at least, not right away” Miss Jenkins chuckles) she can apply her Home Ec training to college courses such as chemistry and bacteriology, or so this film insists.
“Home economics training teaches ways of developing democratic practices within the home,” Miss Jenkins adds, patriotically, but she doesn’t have to say any more to convince Janice. “Anyone who’s going to be married and a homemaker would be foolish NOT to take Home Economics!”
Why Study Home Economics (clip)
Includes sociological research in comments.
Uploaded on Oct 24, 2011
Lisa visits Isaiah and his two wives to determine if what she sees in this young and modern family’s daily lifestyle will change any of the preconceived notions we have about polygamy.
Deleted Scenes: Housewife to Sister-wives
Uploaded on Oct 24, 2011
Lisa Ling visits Joanne’s birthing center in Centennial Park, where she discovers the unexpected gains – and losses – of being born in polygamy…
Deleted Scenes: Teresa’s Divine Revelation
Uploaded on Oct 24, 2011
Teresa tells Lisa Ling what it’s like to find out you’re spiritually contracted to marry someone…who already has a family.
The Story Continues: Modern Polygamy
Uploaded on Dec 5, 2011
Find out what has happened since Lisa Ling and the Our America cameras visited polygamist families in Centennial Park, Arizona.
Dr. Drew – Lisa Ling – Inside polygamist compound
Published on Dec 3, 2012
On Thursday night, Dr. Drew was joined by journalist Lisa Ling who was invited into the “Centennial Park” polygamist compound, with cameras, to talk with their leaders and families.Her special “Our America with Lisa Ling, Modern Polygamy” airs on OWN this Sunday night at 10 p.m. ET.In this clip, watch as Dr. Drew examines a group that claims they have nothing in common with the Warren Jeffs’ community with respect to forced marriages and men having sex with underage girls.
Uploaded on Feb 8, 2012
Diplo messes around in New Orleans as he discovers more about the music in the area. This video is apart of “No One is Safe” a documentary series that is in production.
WGNO story on the Walmart video with an interview with the New Orleans Shake Team. (2011)
New Orleans Bounce Artist Sissy Nobby’s Interview (2011)
FADER TV: An Interview With Big Freedia
Uploaded on Oct 7, 2009
Big Freedia is one of New Orleans’ bounce music superstars.
New Orleans Bounce Exposed on So You Think You Can Dance
Uploaded on Sep 30, 2009
Fox’s fifth season of “So You Think You Can Dance” introduces the “New Orleans Bounce” via 20 year-old Louisiana native, Shelby “Skip” Skipper.
MUSIC VIDEOS
Big Freedia – Na Who Mad (2011)
Walmart – Mr. Ghetto New Orleans Bounce Summer 2011 ( Bonose Tv )
Just Dance : Big Freedia – Excuse
Just Dance : Big Freedia – Y’all Get Back Now
Uploaded on Mar 30, 2011
Scion A/V Presents Big Freedia’s booty poppin’ music video to her first single, “Y’all Get Back Now.” The track is off the New Orleans native’s first album, Big Freedia Hitz Vol. 1
Sissy Nobby – PSYCHO (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) 2011 Galactic ft. Cheeky Blakk – “Do It Again” (2010)
DJ Academe strongly recommends that you watch “Do It Again.”
SISSY NOBBY- WINE IT UP (OFFICIAL VIDEO) HD (2010)
Government campaign targets teenage domestic violence
Teenage boys are being urged not to violently abuse their girlfriends in a new Government campaign.
Abuse in teen relationships (girl)
This powerful Home Office advert, directed by top British director Shane Meadows, aims to challenge the attitudes of teenagers towards violence and abuse in relationships.
Abuse in teen relationships (boy)
This powerful Home Office advert, directed by top British director Shane Meadows, aims to challenge the attitudes of teenagers towards violence and abuse in relationships.
Boys Teen Dating Violence 60 sec PSA
“Just because it isn’t physical doesn’t mean it’s not abuse.”
60 second PSA from seeitandstopit.org about teen dating violence. For boys.
“My boyfriend raped me, but because of my illegal status I’m afraid to report it.”
This PSA was created by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) CREATE! and Domestic Violence Prention Program (DVPP). It was conceived, written and acted by students from Belmont and Miguel Contreras High School in Los Angeles California.
The DVPP is the MALDEF component to the Los Angeles Domestic Violence Collaborative in partnership with the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and the Los Angeles Urban League.
Published on Dec 6, 2012 by VOAvideo
In recent years Pakistan has passed laws protecting women against having acid thrown on their faces or being killed to satisfy the honor of a family. Despite being legally banned, abuses against women continue. However, there are stories of individuals who stand up when the law fails them. Sharon Behn reports from Peshawar on one family whose father died trying to prevent their daughter from being given away to settle a dispute.
Published on Nov 30, 2012 by RTAmerica
According to a recent study, adult film actresses are happier, spiritually healthier and have higher self-esteem than other women. This is contrary to the belief that most of the women who have chosen the career path are drug attics and compelled to the industry due to a history of sexual abuse. Chanel Preston, adult film actress, joins us for more on the study.
Few women go out in Pakistan without being fully covered in traditional dress. But VOA’s Sharon Behn reports from Islamabad on how two women in this Muslim country are combining modern art and a taste for high fashion to create a new fusion of wearable art in Pakistan.
Perversion for Profit is a 1965 propaganda film financed by Charles Keating and narrated by George Putnam. A vehement diatribe against pornography, the film attempts to link explicit portrayals of human sexuality to the subversion of American civilization, and briefly draws a parallel between pornography and the Communist conspiracy. The film is in the public domain, and it has become a popular download from the Prelinger Archives. Perversion for Profit illustrates its claims with still images taken from various soft core pornography magazines of the period, though with some portions of human anatomy obscured by colored rectangles.
To bolster his position, Putnam makes several references to “Dr. Sorokin, the renowned Harvard sociologist”. This individual is Pitirim Sorokin, a Russian-American who founded Harvard’s Sociology department and served as the American Sociological Association’s 55th president.
In an article discussing the Prelinger Archives for the San Francisco Chronicle, Peter L. Stein observes that the film has gained a different sort of utility than its producers intended: …as the parade of girlie magazine covers, men’s physique pictorials and campy S&M leaflets continues, the film betrays a kind of prurience the filmmakers could hardly have intended. What results is a remarkable visual record of midcentury underground literature and sexual appetites, and a gloss on the values of the society that condemned them.
At the time the Chronicle article was written, Perversion was the Archive’s second most popular download, superseded only by Duck and Cover. Ephemeral film scholar Rick Prelinger, founder of the Archive, views the popularity of such films as a sign the “unofficial evidence of everyday life” has become more interesting than “‘official’ documents from Washington or New York”.
In 2004, a Prelinger Archive user going by the pseudonym “Trafalgar” produced a remix, in which short clips from the film are rearranged to make a pro-pornography advocacy video. Trafalgar’s remix, entitled Come Join the Fun!, is available from the Internet Archive’s open-source movie collection. The electronica band 3kStatic sampled audio from the original Perversion film for the title track of their 2005 album Perversion: for Profit.
Yeah, I say
Bitch bad, woman good, lady better
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
[Verse 1]
Now imagine there’s a shorty, maybe five maybe four
Ridin’ ’round with his mama listening to the radio
And a song comes on and a not far off from being born
Doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong
Now I ain’t trying to make it too complex
But let’s just say shorty has an undeveloped context
About the perception of women these days
His mama sings along and this what she says
“Niggas, I’m a bad bitch, and I’m that bitch
Something that’s far above average”
And maybe other rhyming words like cabbage and savage
And baby carriage and other things that match it
Couple of things are happenin’ here
First he’s relatin’ the word “bitch” with his mama – comma
And because she’s relatin’ to herself, his most important source of help
And mental health, he may skew respect for dishonor
[Hook]
Bitch bad, woman good
Lady better, they misunderstood
(I’m killin’ these bitches)
Uh, tell ‘em
Bitch bad, woman good
Lady better, they misunderstood
They misunderstood
