“Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying. A couple enters a streetcar, half-full, simply takes a seat, undresses, and starts to do it. You can see from surprised faces that it's not staged. It's pure working-class suburb. But what's fascinating is that the people all look, and then they politely ignore it. The message is that even if you're together in public with people, it still counts as private space.” PeopleIfsLooksStillsTogetherFacesSexSpaceHalfClassCouplePureMessagesEuropeSeatsFascinatingTrendsWorking ClassSuburbsClipHalf FullLatest Trends Author:Slavoj Žižek
“Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.” MenLongTodayLawValuesCultureHalfTakenWeekMessagesFemaleAbuseFunctionMalesKillingInjusticeValuableSentencesOur SocietyJailMisogynyInfidelityEquationsAdultery Author:Anna Quindlen
“The fictitious worlds created for kids are nearly bereft of female presence. It's sending a very clear message from the beginning that women and girls do not have half of the adventures, that they're not as important. We're teaching kids that girls and women don't take up half the space in the world.” WorldImportantKidsGirlSpaceHalfClearTeachingAdventureMessagesFemaleThat GirlBereftTeaching Kids Author:Geena Davis
“I don't want to read more into it than there is. I try not to overanalyze anymore, as it tends to make me self-centered. If there is a deeper message in what happened in the last year and a half, I'm not going to look under every rock for it. Just let God be God.” IfsWantTryingYearsLooksSelfLastsHalfHappenedRocksLetting GoMessagesDeeperLast YearSelf CenteredJust Let Go Author:Wayne Watson
“I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted." As far as I am aware, the efforts scarcely exist: very few even pay attention to the question.” EffortPayAttentionHalfMediaMessagesPay AttentionHeartedCritiqueHalf Hearted Author:Noam Chomsky
“In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.” WorldShowsLightSongTurnsSecretHalfMessagesChemicalsTurn-onGroove Author:Art Linkletter