Feminist Steps in a Sexist World
As I was writing my livejournal entry yesterday, I began to realize that for me, watching slasher films has always been a feminist experience. But there are a lot sexist qualities to them as well. So I read some articles about that. Apparently, the general consensus has always been that slasher films are sexist. The well-known film critics, Siskel
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Re: In that last ten years or so, I have noticed less and less female representation in films and television shows.... There just seems to be less and less now, which irritates the hell out of me.
If you think this is true, you're watching the wrong shows. Game of Thrones is one example (if problematic, imho), but there are MANY others.
Go watch Westworld - a 70s robot western action movie turned into an incredibly well-written, well-acted marvel of intelligent sci-fi, which also happens to be a not particularly subtle story of female robots completely rejecting the patriarchal bullshit they've been fed, rewriting their programming themselves to reject the servile, exploitive roles they've been given, and rising up to overthrow the system that's held them captive (including the well-meaning ones who think they're just trying to protect them). Direct quotes: "I imagined a story where I didn’t have to be the damsel.Since you touched on the pure survivor motif from ( ... )
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