reflection on this passage and its implications for the educational potential of blogs and social media?

[Star world]

In Feminism is for Everybody, bell hooks argues for the importance of a "mass-based educational movement" in enabling a wide range of people to learn about feminist movement and feminist principles. She writes:

Future feminist movement must necessarily think of feminist education as significant in the lives of everyone....By failing to create a mass-based educational movement to teach everyone about feminism we allow mainstream patriarchal mass media to remain the primary place where folks learn about feminism, and most of what they learn is negative. Teaching feminist thought and theory to everyone means that we have to reach beyond the academic and even the written word (24).

More than that, hooks' claim that "mainstream patriarchal mass media's" take on feminism is usually negative. What do you think about that?

[Model Pilot]

Feminism's growth is due to media...books were published, images shared...and as the media became more "mass" via television, the adherents have multiplied. The "patriarchal" nature of mass media can be debated as long as you breathe, and you or I may convince someone who is open on the topic, but it isn't irrefutably provable. The state of "Denial" has broad borders and no immigration control preventing people from going there. As more people have connections and interactions that they will pay attention to, ideas will spread and new social realities will emerge. No matter if this is via blogs or social media or a major change in cable network executives, the dynamic remains.

[gwallan]

Patriarchal media? Thanks for the laugh.