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Welcome to this month’s Feminist Friday, where I round up some of the best thought-provoking links, and we can discuss what’s going on in the zeitgeist. Our motto here: Feminism is for everyone.
Feminist Focus
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve settled in to watch a film from the 1980s or 1990s that I loved when, all of a sudden, I realize how many -isms (sexism, racism, etc.) are embedded within.
See: the insinuated date rape and the racist character Long Duk Dong in “Sixteen Candles,” arguably the most-batted-around examples from the John Hughes era.
That’s why I really appreciated reading Molly Ringwald’s essay looking back on her participation in these films, and how she feels about the films today.
Chuck Klosterman posits in the book “But What If We’re Wrong?” that eventually everything that is mainstream (or “normal”) will be viewed through the lens of the future, and there’s no telling what our progression (or “new normal”) will be.
So do we avoid watching Brat Pack movies because the norm for that time was oppressive by today’s standards … or continue to watch them because there are some universal truths about life in there, and consciously disregard the -isms within?
What do you think?
Feminist Links
All the links that are worth clicking on this month. Some are serious, some not so much. All are food for thought.
- “Describe yourself like a male author would.”
- Molly Ringwald revisits The Breakfast Club.
- Dial Down the Feminism creator reacts to going viral.
- 5 girl power books for kids
- I’m a single mom, and I’m running for Congress.
- The 10-Year Baby Window That Is the Key to the Women’s Pay Gap
- She taught Amelia Earhart how to fly.
- Artist Alexandra Grounds modernizes pop-art icons with giant feminist works
- Nigella Lawson: Home cooking can be a feminist act
- I am the one woman who has it all.
- Mermaids are making a comeback.
- Ignoring online misogyny has deadly consequences.
- What do we do with these men?
- High heels get a feminist makeover
- Black girls are unfairly targeted for dress-code violations.
- Books by women that I’ve added to my To Be Read list: Not That Bad, The Pisces, Landwhale, A Girl Stands at the Door, I’m Still Here
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