Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The Continuing Feminist Movement



I found an image that is about feminism in 1980s.


The 1980s represented a particular moment in feminist politics. Without a lengthy, easily contested, necessarily subjective attempt to synthesize the final years of second wave feminism, some things bear repeating in this context. That decade encompasses the bitterness of the feminist porn wars and a virulent mainstream backlash against feminist politics. It may be simplistic, but also useful, to suggest that the emphasis placed on identifying and responding to violence against women was a feminist strategy to underscore the urgency of a radical reconceptualization of gender roles and power.

Here I found another image is about an American pop star---Lady Gaga. I think she embodies feminism from another side. Because she is the person who ignores the moral, and does what she wants. But the title of this picture is really interesting, it's called 'Lady Gaga is Pro-Women, Anti-Feminism'. However, there are also some people do not agree with this, they think that she just made news. Here is a person called SketchArwen who says "who does she think she is? Shes coming up in an age where music videos make a star more than what they're really worth. Oh but she's a "rock star" gimme a break. Shes a product of this music machine and can't even talk about being a feminist. I would rather see her grabbing her crotch and smokin a cigarette talkin about how the gender differences are ridiculous than see her all slutted out in a wig talkin about how she loves the gay community but isn't a feminist. Shes representing the crowd thats payin her bills right now and thats ok but im not going to sit in her corner and think shes cool as hell. How do these stars expect to change the scene? They don't want to change it. So forget her."

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