I was watching The View yesterday and I saw this interview and what preceded it. Regardless of politics I think the message behind this interivew is important (at least until they start talking about twitter).
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So here's what Feminist Fight Club is y’all: We're underground. We will have bloodied knuckles and ink stained hands by the end of it, because we have some big old boogey men to fight. Our intent is to stare ourselves in the eye- the multifaceted multidimensional wonderful unique interesting beings that make up each and every one of you. The person we are staring at is the flat, consumer driven, fetishized, commodified, familiar yet disturbingly bastardized societal representation of the self that you see every day.
What do we want? Your voices. Any time you're looking at that warped funhouse mirror cultural construction of yourself, reclaim it. Poster? Commercial? Ad on the subway? Article that made you more than a little uncomfortable from a "respectable" news source? Episode of that show that you love to hate that just went too far? Rage on it.
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This is archaeology, cultural anthology, and if we make enough noise, raise enough rabble (And oh yes. We can) it will be a time capsule that will shock the future that we will be integral in building.
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I really effin' hate when someone has an idea and the idea is discredited because they're "ugly" "fat" or "from XYZ city". This girl isn't even obese. She's probably just a bit heavier than the average young woman (which is her target, I think), but fat doesn't come anywhere near my mind that comes to my mind unless I'm a bitter person with nothing else to say in rebuttal. Its not like she was trying to enter a bathing suit contest. It shouldn't come to mind at all.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! I love to see feminist discussions coming from the least likely of places! But, alas, my ninja-senses are tingling... I'd like to point out the part of the interview when they're all chirping "why?" Why is weight and issue, why did Ingram use this as a political rebuttal? Ms. McCain (who appears to be a tolerable human being, actually. I've read some of her stuff on that blog, and as far as modern, young pragmatism goes, she's not too bad, for a conservative) quickly mutters "I dont know." I wanted to bust on stage during the chorus of why's to be like DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH... standards of beauty have become the "new" woman's vaccuum cleaner and knitting needles. Standers of beauty have become the new woman's dowry... I would love for discussion like this to not only as why, which is an important conversation, but to actually dig a little deeper into answering it other than saying it is absurd. That's all. Great post though.
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