Saturday, February 09, 2008

Femisism, Comic books, and percieved images.










Anonymous said...

Very good point, about the homogenizing of female identity. Hear hear! Seems to me it isn't a shocking concept that there are loads of different types of women out there, but when it comes down to the wire, the generalizations rear their ugly heads. Shock and awe, women aren't all the same if their feminists, shock and awe, women want a decently sized female identity spectrum in our media!

Now I want to go watch Mary Poppins.

-K.A., linked from WFA!

Ami Angelwings said...
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Ami Angelwings said...

Great post! :DDD

The "hive mind" thing implies that we're not like minded ppl who support each other or happen to agree with each other or anything else. Community or not. It implies that we dun have a mind of our own, that we all agree b/c we're told to not b/c we arrived at the same conclusions seperately, or that in terms of community that we can't be a community of individuals but a cult. The hive mind thing reduces us all to just parts, with no thinking, merely echoing some words we dun understand and therefore can be more easily attacked. :\ Community, fellowship, agreement, even coincidence, does not negate our individuality, and that we individually believe in the same or similar things. :) There may be an underlying problem that ppl are realizing that is forging similar opinions, but we are not all the same and we are not one singular being simply b/c we agree :]

It seems like it is just easier for some ppl to believe that feminism is not something that women, on their own, seperately, can realize or believe in, b/c that would mean that there is something that women are reacting to and getting angry about, but that it's a religion we're indoctrinated into, that beliefs can't be coincidental b/c that would mean that ppl are realizing the same things individually, but that we're taught them and mindlessly obey without individual thought. It reduces feminists from individual women to a collection of mouthpieces for Big Sister and makes us easier to dismiss.

I never watched Mary Poppins from beginning to end :O NOW I MUST!!!

Adalisa said...

Hi, K.A. and Welcome :)
I have tried to understand generalizations for a long time, but I still don't understand why in this type of discussion some of the generalizations are bad (All comic book fans are living in their mother's basement and have poor body hygene) while the ones about women are all fine and dandy.

And yes, Mary Poppins is worth re-watching, isn't it?

Adalisa said...

Hey, Ami, nice to see you :)
I've never understood the whole "hive mind" myth. Just today I was talking with my best friend about how I loved I dream of Jeannie, while she hated it because she found it boring, and then she wondered why I liked it if I had found the MJ statuette demeaning. Different women, different opinions. How hard is that to understand?

And yes, watch Mary Poppins from beginning to end. Mrs. Banks and her maids are a thing of wonder, even if they're played a bit for laughs, it doesn't change the message.