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A couple of serious links for tonight:
Jean Kilbourne's Killing Us Softly 3 about images of women in advertising - it's worth watching even if there are no groundbreaking points that are being made in there, and there's some funny. :)
The one quote I really liked was one when Jean was talking about the fact there's been a rise recently in images that objectify men, as well. And how sometimes that's used to say, look, men are treated just as badly as women.
The problem? Apart from the fact it doesn't happen with as much frequency, it is that the structure doesn't work the same for men and women. "There are no consequences to men for being objectified." The images that we circulate that perpetuate an image of masculinity as necessarily violent and unemotional have much more power, and are much more dangerous.
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An interesting post, An exegesis on same-sex marriage, in particularly because it goes over the history of marriage as an institution.
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And I'll throw a lighter link in there, Nathan Fillion and Joss Whedon being adorable together. RL bromance FTW. :D
Jean Kilbourne's Killing Us Softly 3 about images of women in advertising - it's worth watching even if there are no groundbreaking points that are being made in there, and there's some funny. :)
The one quote I really liked was one when Jean was talking about the fact there's been a rise recently in images that objectify men, as well. And how sometimes that's used to say, look, men are treated just as badly as women.
The problem? Apart from the fact it doesn't happen with as much frequency, it is that the structure doesn't work the same for men and women. "There are no consequences to men for being objectified." The images that we circulate that perpetuate an image of masculinity as necessarily violent and unemotional have much more power, and are much more dangerous.
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An interesting post, An exegesis on same-sex marriage, in particularly because it goes over the history of marriage as an institution.
--
And I'll throw a lighter link in there, Nathan Fillion and Joss Whedon being adorable together. RL bromance FTW. :D
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Date: 2008-11-02 08:45 pm (UTC)Personnellement, c'est mes études en anthropo qui ont commencé à m'ouvrir les yeux sur la nature illusoire du «mariage éternel homme-femme depuis 5000 ans»... Quoique ça n'a pas empêché l'anthropo de produire des réflexions archi-rétrogrades...
Bromance. Trop cute comme concept :) Et c'est vraiment ça qu'on sent dans l'image. Wow.
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Date: 2008-11-02 09:16 pm (UTC)Et oui, le mot bromance me plaît bien ;) Et la photo est trop adorable. C'est dommage que les créations de Whedon contiennent bien peu de mecs qui osent être émotionnel avec d'autres hommes (ils le sont avec des femmes, c'est déjà ça?) parce que visiblement en tant de personne ça ne le dérange pas des masses.