What a Woman Is – en|Gender

What a Woman Is

Posted by helenboyd – November 30, 2009

I’m starting to think I could teach a whole Gender Studies coiurse on the Caster Semenya hullabaloo, since this ad, by a South African strip club, pretty much constructs woman to mean bimbo.

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