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greenie_breizhA 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 10:18 pm (UTC)Alors quand on est quelqu'un de bien, une femme bien éduquée et/ou un homme qui est sensible aux problèmes des femmes, on condamne MTV, tout en continuant d'envoyer ses enfants voir High School Musical. Je n'essaie pas de dire que l'hétérosexisme latent d'HSM est aussi grave que la représentation des femmes comme bouts de viande à la télé, mais plutôt que je trouve plus intéressant de se poser des questions sur le système qui permet non seulement au monde de la télé de continuer de diffuser des images de femmes comme objets sexuels, mais surtout sur les méchanismes qui permettent à ces images de devenir populaires.
J'ai aussi peur de l'indignation, souvent, ça crée des représentations binaires bonnes images/mauvaises images qui, une fois encore, cache la complexité des interactions entre images et téléspectateurs et surtout qui rend plus invisible la façon dont ces images fonctionnent dans un système bien plus ambigu que les images de ces vidéos.