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Korean Gender Reader
(Source) 1) Because one can never talk too much about Playboy… Admittedly it’s only tangentially related to Korea, but then Playboy bunny ears were very popular with Korean women last summer, and then...
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Consent is Sexy, Part 3: Female President by Girl’s Day #FAIL
(Source) …whenever claims of female empowerment or sexual expression are made of girl groups, just a little investigation reveals the conspicuous absence of the voices of the girls themselves. Rather,...
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Girl’s Day and the New Lolitocracy: Part 1
(L-R: Jihae, Sojin, Yura, Haeri, Minah. Source) Humbert called Lolita ”the ideal consumer, the subject and object of every foul poster.” Damon Trent sounded the same theme while writing about ”the new...
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Girl’s Day and the New Lolitocracy: Part 2
(Source) Frankly, all too many things come to mind when I see this picture of Girl’s Day from late-2010…but “Lolitas” isn’t one of them. Even if Haeri, second from left, did happen to be 16 at the...
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Girl’s Day and the New Lolitocracy: Part 3
(Source, edited) Here’s the final part of this blogger’s post, which follows directly from where Part 2 left off (see here for Part 1). It’s a very good introduction to the origins of the Lolita trend...
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