"They become kind of brands. It’s much harder to do that if you’re a woman. That’s crucial for longevity. All those men are also personal. I don’t mind that, but I do mind that it’s not really questioned, whereas I or another woman is looked at as so self-obsessed. Men are just not being judged in the same way. They’re never going to be annoying in the same way." — Miranda July on the disparity of treatment between men directors and women directors within the film industry
You don’t want to start setting up another rule book, like: “This is how you’re a feminist. And this is the way you dress. And this is the way you act. And this is the way you protest.” It’s like, some people protest carrying signs. Some people protest by making activist radical music. Sometimes people try to just make it through a day and not kill themselves, and that’s their activism for right then, because that’s all they have.
TV advert to tackle rape 'myths'
Scotland’s first TV advert aimed at tackling “prejudice” against rape victims is being broadcast. It will be aired as new figures suggested nearly one in five Scots believe a woman can be partly responsible for rape if she is drunk. The advert shows a woman enjoying herself at a bar in a new outfit with the message that there is never an “excuse” for rape.
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Someone needs to direct me to a fyscotland. I love. I love.
Watch this video/read this article. Do it. Do it.
Liberation day, Paris, France. A French girl has her head publicly shaved as punishment for having had a relationship with a German during the occupation. According to Julian Jackson, author of France: The Dark Years 1940 - 1944:
“Shavings were carried out all over the country, in cities as well as villages. Frequently they were made into a public spectacle: the women were paraded down the street, sometimes naked; then they were shaved in front of an audience on a hastily erected platform or a balcony; swastikas were daubed on their faces or their shaven skulls. There is no way of knowing how many shavings occurred, but a figure of between 10,000 and 30,000 seems plausible. Sometimes they were the result of personal vendettas masquerading as people’s justice. Sometimes angry crowds searched for scapegoats in a random and sadistic manner.”
“The kinds of employment open to women - secretarial jobs or domestic service - were more likely to bring them into contact with Germans than was true of French men, and this did not imply any preference on their part.”
“Sexual contacts between French women and German soldiers were numerous, but the post-war fixation upon them is largely revealing of male sexual anxieties and jealousies.”
As an audience, we can handle teenage girls and young women singing (sexily, coyly, prettily) about heartache and boys and loss, about unfairness, about redemption and about payback. But when an older woman sings of those same subjects, well, it wrecks everything. And, by that, I mean that we have certain expectations of older artists: They can turn into caricatures of their former selves, be campy or kitschy, sing stories of survival and resilience, and deliver pearls of wisdom. But that's about it. So it's shocking when an older woman gets on stage and basically says: This way of living and of being did not work, and the comfort that we all strive for was barely a comfort for me at all.
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"Particularly in areas around erotica and sexual violence, people want to deny the direct link between representations and how we live our lives. I think that it’s possible to embrace the knowledge that there’s a direct link between representations and choices we make in our lives that does not make that link absolute, that does not say, ‘oh if I look at a movie in which a woman is fucked to death I will go out and think that I should let myself be fucked to death by any man who wants to fuck me.’ I think that’s an absurd sense of a direct link. But that is not to say that if I watched enough of those images I might not come away thinking that certain forms of unacceptable male violence and coercion in relationship to my female body are acceptable." — bell hooks
Cultural Criticism and Transformation
Part One [from 05.41]
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Manic Street Preachers - Little Baby Nothing
Your lack of ego offends male mentality.
One of my absolute favorites; a duet, of sorts, with Traci Lords (though she was not available for filming the video).
"Does glamour empower women, or turn them into objects? It is important to remember that women practise glamour, they are not simply the object of the male gaze. And, historically, glamorous women were just as likely to be seen as dangerous to men as victims themselves. Glamour can represent self-assertion, sexual confidence, playfulness, pleasure and delight. But in the end, nothing empowers women so much as a good education and a well-paid job." — Carol Dyhouse
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"If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead you to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all." — Erica Jong (via polyhymnia)
Your heart, my love, is apocalyptic.
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