In the 101 top-grossing family films…from 1990 to 2004, of the over 4,000 characters in these films, 75% overall were male, 83% of characters in crowds were male, 83% of narrators were male, and 72% of speaking were male. When the American Psychological Association commented on this research, they said, ‘This gross under-representation of women or girls in films with family-friendly content reflects a missed opportunity to present a broad spectrum of girls and women in roles that are non-sexualised.’
Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, pages 69-70, 2010. (via bitemebeautiful)
Bringing this back as people have started reblogging this again and EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS.
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Armstrong kitchen ad, 1956 (x)
When I was little pink was my favorite color. I told my mom that when I grew up everything in my life would be pink: house, car, cat—YOU NAME IT.
It is illegal for women to go topless in most cities, yet you can buy a magazine of a woman without her top on at any 7-11 store. So, you can sell breasts, but you cannot wear breasts, in America.
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Would it be effective censorship if I just photoshopped man nipples onto girl nipples
When I was in Hawaii last week I wanted to take my swimsuit top off at the beach so badly. Shit gets so sandy and uncomfortable. Not to mention, as a DD swimsuit tops are a joke and don’t fit anyway. Why must my nipples be so sexualized. They aren’t that cool. I want tan boobies.
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Did you know that one of the top reasons women have unplanned pregnancies is because they think they can’t get pregnant? Just because you have had unprotected sex and not gotten pregnant in the past doesn’t mean you’re infertile. Take your bc pill at the same time everyday. Heck, if you’re sexually active, you best be on bc! IUD, Nuva—explore your options, there is something for everyone!
Tumbling over the past year and a half has made me see the problems of gender roles that exist in media, but sometimes it gets to the point where I over analyze every single piece of television or film that I come across. (However this in no way means that I think feminist media criticism is wrong, or should be avoided!) Mostly I just over think everything.
This is awesome!
Oh god, my life.
And this is what Butler and Foucault mean when they talk about knowledge production being a reproductive process. Butler says that, “the naming is at once the setting of a boundary, and also the repeated inculcation of a norm” (Bodies That Matter, xvii). As feminists, each time we locate and name a particular issue, we participate in discursively reproducing it. This is true of all things, in a post-strucuralist sense. I think avoiding this trap is an impossible feat! However, the critique is powerful in that creates the necessary fissures and gaps in the reproductive process to create new ways of imagining. The power of fantasy then becomes the vehicle for embodying new ways of being and seeing.
African-Americans are almost FOUR TIMES as likely as white people to be arrested for marijuana possession, even though drug use is the same.
Check this out from The Toronto Star:
As part of Design for Public Awareness, a class taught by Prof. Jan Hadlaw, the students created 12 graphic art projects that address issues surrounding sexual assault.
Hadlaw said she wasn’t sure at first about using comics to tackle such a weighty subject.
“I had to think about it for a minute — it’s a challenging topic on many levels — but it was clearly an inspired idea,” she said.
The course material was presented in conjunction with Noa Ashkenazi, the university’s sexual harassment prevention and education adviser.
Sexual assault has been a hot topic at York. Taking action to prevent attacks must go beyond getting security or law enforcement involved, Ashkenazi said.
“We cannot expect police to change the social norms. We need to change the social norms,” she said.
