What really grinds my gears this week is how girls, teenage girls in particular, aren’t allowed to have any sort of interest in literally anything without being made fun of or turned into a tired stereotype. But wait, you say. Not every teenage girl feels persecuted, the jokes are just jokes. Lots of girls will…
Photo Credit: http://www.chicktech.com “Her makeup looks so bad. Boys don’t like makeup like that.” “She dresses like a boy, that is so ugly. She needs to start wearing girly clothes.” “Why doesn’t she shave? Gross.” “They’re not a real girl, they were born as a boy. We are real girls!” “Look how fat she is,…
Ok, I’ll admit, the first Friday of the month crept up on me a bit, and I may have totally forgotten about writing this blog today, so I don’t have a huge point to make or a structured argument or anything like that. I do, however, have some stuff to share. This week I discovered…
This post is by our volunteer blogger Molly. However subtle or loud it may present itself, the male gaze exists, and has existed, quite consistently throughout filmmaking. Laura Mulvey, a feminist, noticed the asymmetry of gender power throughout film and media, and first coined the term in 1974. The male gaze occurs when a camera…
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