What sort of "strong independent woman" is emotionally devastated by rude comments and images in magazines?
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05-12-2013, 06:54 AM
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Any woman who likes to keep proclaiming that she's 'strong' and 'independent'
likely is pretentious or is attemping to divert attention from her insecurities. Any woman who likes to keep proclaiming that she's 'well-educated' seems worried that other people cannot recognise it from how she expresses herself. Am I 'emotionally devastated' by noticing the demeaning, factually inaccurate stereotypes of women in the media? No, but I am aware that these stereotypes cannot be shrugged off so easily by some women, who belong to disempowered minorities, than by other women, who have enjoyed power and privileges coming by birth or by marriage. I have noticed, for example, that most writers, whether male or female, feminist or non-feminist, in Gender Studies seem to stereotype East Asian women as very passive, submissive, and incapable of independent thought or action. How would you feel if you were an East Asian woman who was persistently denied promotion at work because her bosses believed that the dominant stereotypes of her must be true? You seem to like to use 'feminist' as a term of abuse toward women whom you dislike or with whom you seriously disagree. You might like to know that even women who describes themselves as 'feminist' have differences about what that means or should mean. "Feminism's generation wars" by Katha Pollitt: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/...sm-gender1 |
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What sort of "strong independent woman" is emotionally devastated by rude comments and images in magazines? - Erraticdust589 - 05-12-2013, 04:52 AM
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