Feminism links
Sep. 3rd, 2010 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12In case you hadn't noticed, I hang out in a lot of places online. Oddly (or not so oddly) enough, many of these places deal with issues relating to feminism and pop culture. Not so oddly enough, I gather, over the course of the day, many awesome links. I'm going to share some of them with you today.
Mostly of these came from The Hathor Legacy.
Here's the first in a series of posts on Deeply Problematic about representations of women in the webcomic Questionable Content. I love QC, so I was thrilled to find that the blogger's opinion was the same as mine: that QC, apart from a few slip-ups, is generally very good on issues of representation. I now kind of want to read a few more posts on that blog. There look to be some very interesting ones.
Here's Cheryl Klein writing about Taylor Swift, YA literature and teenage female sexuality.
That led me back to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bookshop's really good post about the way Twilight and its imitators contribute to rape culture. That post should be required reading. That led me on to another post (very triggering) by Fugitivus. bookshop describes it perfectly as being about 'how women are taught from childhood on to behave in ways that perpetuate rape culture'.
That reminded me of this post on The Hathor Legacy about (shock, horror) an anti-rape campaign that targets men rather than women.
Since we're talking older blog posts, I thought I'd link you to one of my favourites on Tiger Beatdown, about Manic Pixie Dream Girls. Tiger Beatdown is consistently one of my favourite places on the internet. I really love all its bloggers.
Speaking of Tiger Beatdown bloggers, Sady Doyle wrote a really good article for The Atlantic about 'Love the Way You Lie'. The most important point she makes is that
It feels safer to believe that one person will always come out of the relationship with clean hands, and that only monsters hurt people. But this belief can actually make it harder for victims to get out of abusive situations. Abusers are human; so are the people they abuse. Both parties are capable of feeling and inflicting pain. If we can't envision abusers as anything less than monstrous, or if we require victims to be perfect, then identifying and escaping abuse becomes that much harder. None of this is any excuse for abuse, because there is no excuse for that; still, maybe just because of its basis in well-known abuse cases, "The Way You Lie" has become a way for many people to discuss the ways in which our picture of abuse sometimes diverges from the reality. And that discussion is important.
Here's a short documentary about Disney. It's in five parts. Part 1 is here. I especially appreciate the comments on how Disney has changed the way that children play, and that it recognises that play is really important for children.
This is an issue of racism rather than sexism and the commenters and blogger (who claims to help people with issues of etiquette) are a disgrace.
That's it for now.
Mostly of these came from The Hathor Legacy.
Here's the first in a series of posts on Deeply Problematic about representations of women in the webcomic Questionable Content. I love QC, so I was thrilled to find that the blogger's opinion was the same as mine: that QC, apart from a few slip-ups, is generally very good on issues of representation. I now kind of want to read a few more posts on that blog. There look to be some very interesting ones.
Here's Cheryl Klein writing about Taylor Swift, YA literature and teenage female sexuality.
That led me back to
bookshop's really good post about the way Twilight and its imitators contribute to rape culture. That post should be required reading. That led me on to another post (very triggering) by Fugitivus. bookshop describes it perfectly as being about 'how women are taught from childhood on to behave in ways that perpetuate rape culture'. That reminded me of this post on The Hathor Legacy about (shock, horror) an anti-rape campaign that targets men rather than women.
Since we're talking older blog posts, I thought I'd link you to one of my favourites on Tiger Beatdown, about Manic Pixie Dream Girls. Tiger Beatdown is consistently one of my favourite places on the internet. I really love all its bloggers.
Speaking of Tiger Beatdown bloggers, Sady Doyle wrote a really good article for The Atlantic about 'Love the Way You Lie'. The most important point she makes is that
It feels safer to believe that one person will always come out of the relationship with clean hands, and that only monsters hurt people. But this belief can actually make it harder for victims to get out of abusive situations. Abusers are human; so are the people they abuse. Both parties are capable of feeling and inflicting pain. If we can't envision abusers as anything less than monstrous, or if we require victims to be perfect, then identifying and escaping abuse becomes that much harder. None of this is any excuse for abuse, because there is no excuse for that; still, maybe just because of its basis in well-known abuse cases, "The Way You Lie" has become a way for many people to discuss the ways in which our picture of abuse sometimes diverges from the reality. And that discussion is important.
Here's a short documentary about Disney. It's in five parts. Part 1 is here. I especially appreciate the comments on how Disney has changed the way that children play, and that it recognises that play is really important for children.
This is an issue of racism rather than sexism and the commenters and blogger (who claims to help people with issues of etiquette) are a disgrace.
That's it for now.
