A good article. I read it on Saturday and later on went to see Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland", and well... I am still confused... I don't know if Alice is a new feminist, or an old one. I wonder if she truly knows what she wants to be, in wonderland, and in the other lands...
I enjoyed how she cuts the head of the Jabberwocky though! and many other things, "Alice why are you too tall or too small, but never the right size???" Ximena On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:26 PM, marc garrett <[email protected]> wrote: > How the 'new feminism' went wrong. > > Charlotte Raven (Guardian article). > > From pole-dancing lessons to baking cupcakes, modern woman thinks she > can do it all. Germaine Greer's free-thinking female eunuch has been > replaced by the desperately self-inventing 'Madonna', argues Charlotte > Raven, who looks back in shame at the moment in the 1990s when her > generation turned its back on feminism. > > Thanks to a string of celebrity sex stories, the world according to the > tabloids has recently been – even more than usual – a sorry place for > feminism. But among the countless snaps – of bikini-clad betrayed wives, > distressed mistresses and pneumatic "hostesses" – perhaps the most > disturbing was that of Katie Price's two-year-old daughter, Princess, in > heavy makeup, complete with false eyelashes. Millions have seen it. The > "debate" about it has been staged on all media platforms: on one TV talk > show, a woman said she couldn't see what all the fuss was about. Her > daughter was a "girly girl", like Princess. She "adored" dressing up and > posing in front of cameras. It would be wrong to stop her, wouldn't it? > > Katie Price's currency is as high today as when she published her > million-selling autobiography in 2004. She has generated much outrage in > the last few years, but it is nothing compared with her influence. Her > narcissism no longer seems so aberrant. Women's belief in specialness > and a concomitant sense of entitlement has inflated in line with Price's > most famous assets. > > How has it come to this? Feminists blame the sexists, Martin Amis et al, > which is easy but unfair. In reality, we can't blame anyone but > ourselves. While Price has been working tirelessly at getting her > message across, the thinking women – the writers and journalists – who > should have been putting the counter case have been indulging in a > variety of "guilty pleasures" – from ogling young men (Germaine Greer in > The Boy) to drooling over frocks (Linda Grant in The Thoughtful > Dresser). Feminists have become increasingly frivolous, and as such are > no match for Price, who is serious about her mission to win over all > women to "Team Narcissist". > > more... > http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/06/charlotte-raven-feminism-madonna-price > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- http://soundingunderground.org _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
