marxism and cultural studies

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•   jori // 21 November 2009 at 6.13 pm

  here’s the tag line…

  “Hollywood filmmakers like their women like they like their coffee: shrill, stupid and submissive. And usually not black.

  As evidence, all you need to do is look at the “romantic” movies which are targeted toward women, yet somehow embrace every negative assumption about females that males have ever dreamed up. Movies like…”

•   Rachel // 22 November 2009 at 9.28 am

  Boy am I glad to see Twilight on the list. There are plenty of other reasons to hate the series (shoddy, shoddy filmmaking being foremost in my mind until now) but it projects some pretty screwed-up values to boot.

  Based on second-hand information I’ve gathered about the overall plot trajectory from the people who’ve actually read the books (i.e. not me), the message of the series basically boils down to: “Women! Literally sacrifice your body to marriage (via vampire baby clawing its way out of your womb), because that’s the only way you can have sex (with an emotionally abusive vampire) because you are subliminally Mormon!”

•   meg // 22 November 2009 at 11.40 am

  Rachel, the only thing you forgot is that all men are aggressive, abusive, and have something inherent in them to make them so. It’s really not their fault. It’s your job to love them to make them good again.

•   erin // 22 November 2009 at 7.53 pm

  Can we add to this list of Twilight horrors the way the main character makes a point of saying that she doesn’t want to be the typical maiden – needing the knight to save her – and then time and time again assumes that very same role? If that isn’t a version of feminism co-opted to support patriarchy instead of undermine gender constructs and empower female readers, I don’t know what is…

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