Patricia Ange's Blog, page 3
February 3, 2019
Mamie Smith | Music 345: Race, Identity, and Representation in American Music
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As part of the #BlackHistory365 I wanted to look back to the history of the exploration of blacks in the music industry to make money for white companies. Sure, today no one in this country doubts the fact that the #AfricanDiaspora musical tradition is the foundation of 98.99% of what is considered the sound (various genres) of music in the U. S. of A. but that wasn’t always the case. Back in the early 20th century their wasn’t a black presence in the newly developing musical recording industry.
This all changed with the commercial music success, (the black dollar at work), of the song recording of “Crazy Blues” by Mamie Smith. Although historically significant and groundbreaking, this recording was also controversial as Ms Smith wasn’t a Southern Blues Singer. But that’s all I’ll say on that other than to highlight the #NPR recording of a panel discussion talking about the song included with these articles and other recordings.
February 1, 2019
Author Forced to Cancel Fantasy Novel About Enslaved Princess: A Black Person Needs to Write This – Pluralist
As a writer and reader I abhor all forms of censorship. As a member of the #AfricanDisapora I equally abhor #WhitePrivileged individuals writing stories of happy go lucky carefree enslaved people who are satisfied with their lot in life or childlike enslaved people who need the superior benevolent white individuals to manage every aspect of their lives for them.
That said I understand that many cultures of people have endured enslavement just as enslavement has come in many forms over the centuries. Specifically, I can’t overstate the fact that the African Diaspora is not the only group to have endured enslavement or that even in this year, 2019, that there are still groups/cultures on this Earth that are living under some form of enslavement.
Because of this I can only state that I wish #AmélieWenZhao would reconsider pulling her book from publication. The enslavement of the African Diaspora is a historic fact and as we learned from the publication of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and ‘To Kill A Mocking Bird’ sometimes great good can come from authors writing about racially/culturally weighed topics that are outside their culture.
I would suggest that Zhao and her publishing company solicit African Diaspora writers and readers to read her novel and not weigh the novel for African Diaspora racial or cultural sensitivity regarding enslavement but to read the novel with regards to the enslavement of any culture or group of people. I suggest this because 1) I sincerely doubt that half of the individuals who spoke out emotionally about the book have had the opportunity to read the entire book 2) I have read other novels that have had aspects of enslavement in them that initially offended me but after further reading captivated me with the depth and scope of the work. 3) While I am hopeful that we, as the human race, will grow to the point in the future where no individuals are enslaved I don’t doubt that as soon as we enter into space and meet new species that the cycle of enslavement will start once again. 4) Lastly, I would hope that no one would ever have the audacity to tell me that I was unable to write a male, white, urban, bisexual, historic, disabled, cyborg, Jewish, tween etc character because I wasn’t of that particular culture. That’s why we as authors conduct research and how we utilize our imaginations.
#RepresentationMatters and it matters that #AsianAuthors are allowed to tell their cultural experiences in any manner that they want not just the ways that are acceptable to others.
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“Blood Heir “takes place in a fictional Cyrilian empire where a group of powerful people called Affinites are feared and enslaved. Amélie Wen Zhao, the author, framed the novel as a call for social justice informed by her own immigrant story. Born in Paris and raised in a multicultural community in Beijing, she emigrated from China when she was 18 years old, according to her website.
Mercy Mistress: life through a queer and kinky (Asian?) lens | April Magazine
Being a person with common sense as well as a member of the African Diaspora I know that “Asian Sex” is a myth similar to “Black Sex.”
We are talking about the two largest continents on Earth plus related islands. It is impossible, with such large land masses and populations, that the people would all have the same sexual attitudes, morals, fetishes, taboos, etc… That being said it bring to question how did these sexual stereotypes form. As far as my research can tell these stereotypes are the result European missionaries, explorers, diplomats, military personnel, etc.. fetishising, misunderstanding and/or out right biases against sexual attitudes and practices different (foreign) to their own cultures. This is coupled with these Europeans limited exposure to people from across all religious, ethnic and tribal groups on these continents. Not proven but also suggested is that some of the these initial stereotypes might be the result of fabricated stories of sexual conquest (male bragging) or romanticizing #RapeCulture.
It’s because of this history that I am pleased to hear about the series “Mercy Mistress.” Because, to my knowledge, this is the first series that allows Asian women to define their own sexuality.
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Cho, actor Poppy Liu, and Yin Q, the BDSM master whose memoir serves as the inspiration for the show, stopped by BuzzFeed News’ morning show AM to DM on Monday to chat about the series with reporter Hayes Brown.
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YIN Q, CREATOR/WRITER & EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Yin Q is a BDSM educator, ritualist, and creator/writer of Mercy Mistress. Their writing can be found in BUST, Chance Magazine, A Womens Thing, Afro-Asia, Apogee Journal, and various other online sites that promote sex positive, pro-feminist work. Yin Q has been a sex work activist for over two decades with the strong belief that when we decriminalize and uplift the most vulnerable and marginalized communities, we assure the safety of all. Follow on IG and FB.
https://www.aprilmag.com/2018/12/26/mercy-mistress-life-through-a-queer-and-kinky-lens/
Margaret Cho Hopes The BDSM Web Series She’s Producing Shatters Stereotypes About Asian Women’s Sexuality
“[The] one way we as Asian women have been able to have agency and control of the narrative [is] that we have to assume these tropes like Dragon Lady, like the Lotus Blossom, like the Delicate Flower,” Cho said.
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Yes, the MAGA Hat-Wearing Students Are Teenagers. That Doesn’t Exempt Them From Responsibility.
I have read the majority of the articles relating to the events at the Lincoln Monument and I have come to the conclusion that the people to blame for the negative situation that went viral were the organizers and chaperones of the field trip from Covington Catholic High School. I state this as an educator and volunteer organizer that has taken children and teens on field trips. You see the first thing organizers of field trips do is establish rules and regulations that are used to ensure that the students know 1) the field trip is for learning, 2) you can have a good time but must not forget individual and group safety. 3) a dress code would be enforced.
Therefore it was extremely bad judgement on the part of the Covington Catholic adults to allow the students to have/wear “MAGA” paraphernalia. (Given that the “MAGA” slogan has been used by #WhitePrivileged individuals to harass People of Color Nationwide.
Secondly, for the safety of the group the teens would not have been allowed to start chanting, make noise to overwhelm other groups speeches. We have all seen videos of how quickly marches can deteriorate into violence so there’s no way that the chaperones should have allowed the students to attempt to drown out other speakers.
Lastly, once it became obvious that the students had begun to interact with others groups the chaperones didn’t remove the students away from that area specific of Lincoln Monument to a safe area away from the conflict. I think this is the most important point. Especially as we don’t see or recognize any adult with the students of Covington Catholic. This says to me that the chaperones are either away from the group and not watching the students or purposefully allowed the conflict to grow.
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MAGA HAT WEARING PUPILS FROM COVINGTON CATHOLIC SCHOOL WHO TAUNTED NATIVE AMERICAN ELDER COULD FACE EXPULSION
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A new video shows a different side of the encounter between a Native American elder and teens in MAGA hats
I would now like to take time to address the students statement regarding their actions. While he has stated that has didn’t provoke the situation and asserted that he was attempting to defuse the situation I disagree. 1) His hat is a symbol for #WhiteSuperiorty and racial intolerance yet he wore it knowing that he would be running into diverse groups of people on the field trip 2) You don’t defuse a situation by becoming louder than others. Instead of asking to move to another area he determine to out loud them 3) As an educator and adult I know that engaging in a staring match with another person can only escalate a situation. And a child/teen engaging in a staring match with an adult is disrespectful. So every behavior the teenager engaged in was used to provoke a negative response from the other groups.
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Teen in confrontation with Native American: I didn’t provoke
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Black Muslims’ to blame for high school students’ confrontation with Native American man, mother claims
Parent claims musician ‘drummed in [boy’s] face’ while ‘black Muslims yelled profanities’
Hebrew Israelite activists Shar Yaqataz Banyamyan
https://youtu.be/t3EC1_gcr34
In a lengthy video posted to YouTube, the Hebrew Israelite activists shouted insults at Native Americans and the high school students. One of the activists, Shar Yaqataz Banyamyan, denied in a Facebook video that his group had been instigators.
January 19, 2019
The Future Abortionists of America – Youth, Now – Medium
Just as much as I feel that all students in the USA should receive a comprehensive Human Sexuality and Reproduction Education I feel that this education program should include a discussion on the causes of termination of pregnancy both natural and induced as well as the racial divide of the maternal deaths. My reasoning for this is that the subgroup of which I belong, #AfricanDiaspora women, have a greater risk of dieing during childbirth than others.
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The French Open will no longer allow Serena Williams to wear the ‘Black Panther’-style catsuit that made Serena Williams feel like a ‘warrior princess,’ and also helped prevent blood clots.
The black catsuit Serena Williams wore during the French Open has reportedly been banned.
The outfit was a medical necessity for Williams to help prevent blood clots.
Williams also said during the French Open that the outfit made her feel like a Warrior Princess.
Bernard Giudicelli, the president of the French Tennis Federation, said the outfit would no longer be accepted because “you have to respect the game and the place.”
Nike responded to the controversial ban with a perfect response emphasizing that it is not the outfit that gives Serena her superpowers.
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Serena Williams Will Be Able To Bring Back The Catsuit In 2019
She’ll be allowed to rock the suit at Women’s Tennis Association matches, though it may still be barred from the French Open.
There will be less outrage if Serena Williams decides to wear a catsuit at a tennis tournament in 2019. The Women’s Tennis Association released its rule changes Tuesday, December 11, 2018, and made sure to add a line addressing acceptable apparel.
{The big insult (to me) is that a #WhitePrivilegedMale had the audacity to ban a medically necessary style of clothing for a #StrongBlackWoman because #SerenaWilliams wore it and looked feirce and intimidating in the outfit. I know that the French Tennis Open is an independent organization and as such doesn’t have to follow the American’s with Disabilities Act but this is unquestionably an example of #InstitutionalizedRacism because it in effect suggests that this male would rather her die or not work for his organization than to wear the medically necessary outfit to her job.}
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Black women in US are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy, delivery than white women
Racial divide in maternal deaths has persisted for decades
This Mother’s Last
Words Before She And Her Unborn Baby Died Will Haunt You
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Nothing Protects Black Women From Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth
Not education. Not income. Not even being an expert on racial disparities in health care.
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Shalon Irving’s history is almost a textbook example of the kinds of strains and stresses that make high-achieving black women vulnerable to poor health.
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For years she had been suffering from uterine fibroids — nonmalignant tumors that affect up to 80 percent of black women, leading to heavy menstrual bleeding, anemia and pelvic pain. No one knows what causes fibroids or why blacks are so susceptible. What is known is that the tumors can interfere with fertility — indeed, black women are nearly twice as likely to have infertility problems as whites, and when they undergo treatment, there’s much less likelihoodthat the treatments will succeed. Surgery bought her a little time, but her OB/GYN urged her not to delay getting pregnant much longer.
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The USA medical systems are still haunted the enslavement of the African Diaspora
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Author Harriet Washington
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
This book, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, is a groundbreaking history of involuntary and unethical medical experimentation on African Americans from the time of slavery to the present.
“[Washington] begins her shocking history in the colonial period, when owners would hire out or sell slaves to physicians for use as guinea pigs in medical experiments… The most notorious case here may be the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which about 600 syphilitic men were left untreated by the U.S. Public Health Service so it could study the progression of the disease…”
— Kirkus Reviews
Harriet Washington writes:
Twice as many African American babies as babies of other ethnic groups die before their first birthday. One and half times as many African American adults as white adults die every year. Blacks have dramatically higher rates of nearly every cancer, of AIDS, of heart disease, of diabetes, of liver disease, of infectious diseases, and they even suffer from higher rates of accidental death, homicide, and mental illness… But in dissecting this shameful medical apartheid, an important cause is usually neglected: the history of ethically flawed medical experimentation with African Americans….”
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As an internationally known non-profit with a successful track record for change, Medical Students for Choice® (MSFC) stands up in the face of violent opposition. We work to destigmatize abortion provision among medical students and residents, and to persuade medical schools and residency programs to include abortion as a part of the reproductive health services curriculum.
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Today one of the greatest obstacles to safe and legal abortion around the world is the absence of trained providers. Medical schools are simply not addressing the topic; most physicians graduate with little more than circumstantial knowledge of abortion. As medical students and residents, we work to make reproductive health care, including abortion, a part of standard medical education and residency training.
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“We’ve been put on the periphery of medicine because we do the dirty work.”
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https://medium.com/s/youthnow/the-future-abortion-providers-of-america-9238b1664b93
January 5, 2019
This Woman Only Discovered She Was Intersex After Watching A Viral Video About It
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The video, by BuzzFeed News, was called “What It’s Like To Be Intersex”. Irene thought intersex was some kind of new gender identity. She had no idea that it was a physical phenomenon, a biological difference in which a body does not align to standard male or female norms, or that it had anything to do with her. Realising this would uncover secrets that had devastated her life for the last 10 years.
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At birth there were no doubts: Baby Irene was a girl. Until puberty, there was also nothing unusual. Her life was entirely unremarkable: a “regular, middle-class” family that divided its time between Moscow and Lviv, a city in western Ukraine.
Irene’s body appeared just like any other girl’s. She was clever and liked dressing as a “tomboy”; she mostly related to male characters in books and films. But then, at 12, her classmates started developing breasts and menstruating. Irene did not.
“Don’t worry,” her mother and grandmother told her. “It will happen.” Their optimism proved unfounded.
“I was freaking out because I had no breasts,” she says. “I felt self-conscious.” By 13 and then 14, when still nothing had developed, her periods continued to elude her and, aware she was also growing hair on her upper lip, Irene asked for help.
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/this-woman-only-discovered-she-was-intersex-after-watching
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Our Mission:
The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeriesfor people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female.
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We have learned from listening to individuals and families dealing with intersex that:
Intersexuality is primarily a problem of stigma and trauma, not gender.
Parents’ distress must not be treated by surgery on the child.
Professional mental health care is essential.
Honest, complete disclosure is good medicine.
All children should be assigned as boy or girl, without early surgery.
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http://www.isna.org/
The United Kingdom Intersex Association (UKIA) is an education, advocacy, campaigning and support organisation which works on behalf of Intersex people.
Intersex people are individuals whose anatomy or physiology differ from contemporary cultural stereotypes of what constitute typical male and female.
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UKIA Guide to Intersex
How we’re made Chromosomes and Karyotype
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Human beings usually have a set of 23 pairs of chromosomes in each cell of their bodies. The first 22 pairs are called “autosomes” and the 23rd pair are known as “sex chromosomes“.
The way of identifying the configuration of the chromosomes is by what is called “Karyotype“. For example, someone with a 23rd pair of chromosomes which are both Xchromosomes will be identified with the Karyotype “46,XX“. This tells us that they have the usual 46 chromosomes (23 pairs) and that the 23rd pair (“sex chromosomes”) are both X chromosomes. Someone with a 23rd pair of chromosomes consisting of one X and one Y will be identified with the Karyotype “46,XY“.
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However, that’s not the whole story. Far from it.
Many individuals are born with more or fewer sex chromosomes than the typical simple pair. They may have three sex chromosomes, for example, two X and one Y, in which case they will be identified by the Karyotype “47,XXY“
Or they may have only one sex chromosome, an X, in which case they will be identified by the Karyotype “45,X0“
Here is a diagram of the four Karyotype examples given above, but these are only examples; there are many more variations.
More about Karyotype variations
Some of these are common, some quite rare. But they prove that the general social presumption that all humans fit neatly into the binary model of being either “46,XX=female” or else “46,XY=male” is far too simplistic and very mistaken.
It is also mistaken to regard these Karyotype variations as being rare phenomena – for example, in the UK there are probably around 1 in every 500 phenotypic males who have an extra X chromosome (47,XXY), around 1 in every 1000 phenotypic males who have an extra Y(47,XYY) and a similar number of phenotypic females with an extra X (47,XXX)
Unfortunately, it is still far too common to see people refer to Karyotype Variations using stigmatising terms like “abnormalities”, “errors” and such. It is UKIA’s view that these are simply natural variations and should be regarded as such. It is well past the time for abandoning the hysteria and fears rooted in past ignorance and taking a more mature common-sense approach in discussing these variations.
It should be noted that some of the people who have some of these chromosomal variations do not regard themselves as being Intersex and this should be respected.
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More examples of Karyotype variations
46,XY (“typical” male)
46,XX (“typical” female)
45,X0 (see Turner Syndrome)
47,XXY
47,XYY (see 47,XYY Syndrome)
47,XXX
48,XXXX
48,XXYY (see 48,XXYY Syndrome)
48,XYYY
49,XXXXX
49,XXXXY
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Chromosomal Mosaicism
This is where it all gets really interesting!
“Mosaicism” is the term used when different cells have different configurations of chromosomes. For example, in some cells the sex chromosomes might be XX and in others, X0. The karyotype for this person would normally be written 46,XX / 45,X0 (or sometimes as 45/46 X0/XX)
Similarly, if some cells had XY and others had XXY, their karyotype would be 46,XY / 47,XXY
As with all things in nature, there is a whole, beautiful, big world of infinite variety out there.
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Nature rarely ever creates a simple binary choice between two extremes and that is as true of sex chromosomes as of anything else.
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http://www.ukia.co.uk/
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http://www.msmagazine.com/oct00/makingthecut.html
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#MeToo in Our Schools: Hearing Black Girls in the Sexual Abuse Backlash — Women’s Leadership Project
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In 1991, African American law professor Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas transformed her into a feminist icon in the fight against sexual harassment in the workplace. Building on Hill’s legacy, women in corporate America, state and federal government, college campuses, and the entertainment industry have exposed perpetrators, challenged victim-blaming, and mainstreamed a #MeToo movement that was initiated by Tarana Burke, a black woman.
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Yet, when we turn on the TV and see debates about this brave, new heightened consciousness, the faces and voices of black women and girls are often missing. This is despite the fact that approximately 34-50% of African American girls have experienced child sexual abuse.
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References:
“What We Know About R. Kelly’s Two-Decade Trail of Sexual Abuse Accusations”, The New York Times, 10 May 201
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TV Review: ‘Surviving R. Kelly
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“#MeToo in Our Schools: Hearing Black Girls In The Sexual Abuse Backlash”, Women’s Leadership Project, 7 February 2018
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https://www.womensleadershipla.org/blog/2018/2/7/metoo-in-our-schools-hearing-black-girls-in-the-sexual-abuse-backlash
#MeToo: A timeline of events
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#MeToo Founder Tarana Burke on Working Through Trauma to Create Joy
The activist on the misconceptions surrounding the movement, why every platform is powerful, and how she moved beyond mindfulness.
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What About #UsToo?: The Invisibility of Race in the #MeToo Movement
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When Black Women’s Stories Of Sexual Abuse Are Excluded From The National Narrative
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The #MeToo movement and Black Women
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Before #TimesUp and #MeToo: How Black Women Shaped the Development of Sexual Harassment Law
Learn how black women shaped the development of sexual harassment law.
On Monday, April 16th, UCLA’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion will host the panel event, “Before #TimesUp and #MeToo: Quid Pro Quo and Hostile Work Environment: How Black Women Shaped the Development of Sexual Harassment Law”. Seats are filling up, so please RSVP as soon as possible if you’d like to attend. Registration is free and open to all!
Please join Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw and our distinguished panelists as we hear from the courageous Black women who fought back against sexual harassment and the legal theorist who conceptualized how to translate harassment in the workplace into actionable discrimination.
This event is part of “Knowledge for Change”: UCLA’s Inaugural Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Awareness Week, and it will take place on Monday, April 16, 2018 at 6 pm in the UCLA School of Law, Room 1347. Additional information is available in the flyer below and on the event website.
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Trans Women and Femmes Are Shouting #MeToo — But Are You Listening?
Trans voices are powerful and necessary, especially as we consider whose perspectives are heard, and why, in America today.
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Hollywood is having a #MeToo moment. Women of color have fought this battle for decades.
“There are different layers of racism and the ways in which it has shaped our culture, it has shaped our priorities for who gets listened to.”
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Why #MeToo Needs to Talk About Predatory White Women
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One Year of #MeToo: The Legacy of Black Women’s Testimonies
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In black churches, pastors recognize a #MeToo moment among their clergy
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Will Hollywood Get ‘MeToo’ Right In 2019?
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Tarana Burke Explains Why Black Women Don’t Think #MeToo Is For Them
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#MeToo (but not you): Black women are being left out of the conversation on violence, says El Jones
Black women’s bodies tend to be criminalized and seen as a problem, rather than seen as people who are human beings,’ says El Jones, an activist and former poet laureate of Halifax. (Robert Short/CBC)
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Black Women’s Activism And The Long History Behind #METOO
How Can History Help Us Understand #MeToo?
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For black women, #MeToo came centuries too late
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19th century Black Women Slave Narratives and the 21st century #MeToo Movement
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What would happen if we genuinely paid attention to the history of American slavery? What threads could we pull from it about gender, sex and power? This course examines the current discourse around sexual harassment and assault from the #MeToo movement through the informed lens of Harriet Jacobs’s slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Both “texts” involve navigating spaces of subjugation and supremacy and yet one voice has remained steadily ignored in mainstream audiences. We will also look at the intersection of race and gender that Incidents reveals and trace how these remain intact or not through today. We will also look at the life of Sally Hemings in the #MeToo context.
Why black women’s experiences of #MeToo are different
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#MeToo should also expose the vileness of what happens to black and brown women
Is America only protecting the white victims of sexual harassment and violence?
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Beyond #MeToo, Brazilian women rise up against racism and sexism
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How the elite hijacked the #MeToo movement
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We All Wear All Black Every Day”: Inside Wall Street’s Complex, Shameful, and Often Confidential Battle with #MeToo
Wall Street may not have its own Harvey Weinstein to contend with, but the #MeToo movement has forced the industry to address its own history, practices, and culture in uneven, and sometimes shameful, ways.
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Nike’s #MeToo moment shows how ‘legal’ harassment can lead to illegal discrimination
December 26, 2018
Africa (Alabama) missed the #MeToo movement — Quartz Africa
Although I understand the point of the headline in relationship to the #MeToo movement I disagree with it’s conclusion. Africa has not missed the #MeToo movement because Africa is not a country but a continent. And as with all countries on the various continents (similar to all States in a region or country) some are more advanced than others.
Much of the same criteria used to suggest Africa missed the #MeToo movement can be used to address the lack of the movements influence in the state of Alabama. But while an indication of the #racialbiases demonstrated in this article that’s not my main criticism of this article.
My main criticism is that this article continues to define the #MeToo movement successes by those established and supported by these wealthy white women’s platform who only adopted a slogan that was already used by #AfricanDiaspora & women of color. Just because this wealthy white women platform has tried to change the objective of the movement doesn’t make it true. The objective was never about getting even with men. It was always about showing women they are not alone and that surviving is possible. Ange
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It seems that Alabama/Africa’s women have missed the chance to add their voices to the global phenomenon that the #MeToo moment became in 2018. Their relative silence is both a lesson in the movement’s failure to become a truly inclusive network and a reminder of where power resides in patriarchal societies.
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And yet, it’s impossible to ignore the fact that the reason the movement in its current form gained such momentum was because it was driven by mainly white, wealthy women who already had access to the platform and power needed.
In 2006, civil rights activist Tarana Burke, now 45, founded what would become the #MeToo movement to support survivors of sexual violence, particularly young women of color from low-wealth communities.
The call was, “We want the world to hear what we’ve been through. We want the world to understand the system that we are living in that allowed this to happen. We want the world to see what it takes for a woman to survive and thrive in this country.” But we skipped over that.
For all its victories, #MeToo has exposed divisions within the feminist movement. Initially, the division was simultaneously ideological and generational, but then it became clear that women of color and lower-income women were being left out of the conversation.
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To its credit the #MeToo movement has tried to emphasize intersectionality —how social structures affect the different sections of one’s identity, like race and gender — but because it is a movement that requires women to come forward on a public platform, it demands a certain amount of power on the part of its participants.
https://qz.com/africa/1501088/the-metoo-movement-should-listen-to-the-silence-of-african-women/
Man Wants to Bring His Teen Wife to a Office Christmas Party | CafeMom
My grandfather on my mother’s side of the family was 20 to 30 years older than my grandmother. I don’t know the exact age difference because we can’t find my evidence of my granddad’s birth. But this was the late 19th century so this type of age difference was much more common.
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48 Year-Old Man Fears He’ll be Judged for Bringing His Teen Wife, 19 years old, to the Office Christmas Party
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When I was younger all the romance books had this type of age dynamic. But times have changed and now most people recognize these as unequal power dynamics in relationships. Sadly there are still some people both young woman and older men who seek out these types of relationships. It’s not for me to judge what others look for in relationships but as a professional counselor I do sometimes in up working with to those individuals in these relationships. That’s one of the reasons I decided to post how this advice columnist deals with this question from a reader. Ange
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Look, we all love a good advice column. As a bunch of nosy people, they’re the best way to get all up in other people’s business. But one recent column in the Toronto Star has people across the Internet seriously fired up, after a 48-year-old man wrote in that he was unsure if he should bring his 19-year-old wife to his office Christmas party. Sure, an older man married to a young girl is bound to turn some heads when there’s a significant age gap, but what people are really angry about is that this man complained about being judged from his peers when he brought past girlfriends to the annual party — ages 16 and 17.
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Although it should be noted that just because you can have sex with a minor, it doesn’t mean you should.
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In fact, a 2013 study published by the Journals of Interpersonal Violence found that adolescent girls who engage in relationships with older male partners “are at greater risk for adverse sexual health outcomes than other adolescent girls.”
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The study cites that these relationships often leave girls who date older men with “low relationship power,” described as “the degree to which one can act independently of a partner’s control, influence a partner’s actions, and dominate decision-making.” Researchers are concerned about girls in that situation. “In adolescent girls, low relationship power has been linked to intimate partner violence (IPV) and unprotected sex.”
https://thestir.cafemom.com/love/216906/man-bring-teen-wife-office-christmas-party
Age Got to Do With It? Partner Age Difference, Power, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Risk in Urban Adolescents
There’s a High Concentration of Psychopaths in Washington, D.C. | Inverse
Disclaimer- The pictures used below are not used to suggest that any of the people pictured below are psychopaths. I don’t know how many politicians in Washington DC and/or the people who seek to influence politics are psychopath. I only know that it takes a specific type of person to be able to navigate successfully those shark infested waters.
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In an early version of a paper by Southern Methodist University economist Ryan H. Murphy that went public in June, the United States capital topped the list of the states and territories with the highest concentration of psychopaths.
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Psychopathic personality (psychopathy) is a constellation of personality traits encompassing superficial charm, egocentricity, dishonesty, guiltlessness, callousness, risk taking, poor impulse control, and, according to many authors, fearlessness, social dominance, and immunity to anxiety.
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Murphy’s previous work, together with the work of others, has suggested a disproportionately high level of psychopathic behavior among politicians.
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The trend that stands out from the data is that psychopaths tend to congregate in major cities — which the top five states are full of. This follows from theory,” said Murphy. “Psychopaths prefer both opportunities for power and the anonymity that a city can offer.”
https://www.inverse.com/article/52043-most-psychopaths-by-state-washington-dc
