Fanboys…
…have a movie about them????
Fangirls…
…ruin everything!
LOLZ!!
From All That’s Fab:
ATF: So is the album a little bit of male bashing or it is more like empowering for women?
Amerie: Is there really such a thing has male bashing? You tell me who has male bashing song.
ATF: I’ll take it back to Destiny’s Child “Writings on the Wall” album. That album was full of songs against men.
Amerie: I don’t think they were male bashing. They were just telling it like it is.
Tell ‘em, Amerie…
And at the risk that I sound like I’m plugging my favourite pop singer: new album…
Happy boogying everyone!
In the heart of the plains, in the county known as Middle Earth, stands the sparklingly glorious Church of Sauron. Overlord Harold (the church’s pastor) is hanging up this weeks bulletin notices, which include Only in Sauron will you find true power, and Cake sale this Tuesday.
At 3 o’clock every Monday morning, the congregation groggily stumbles to the service. Among the congregation are a mother and her two sons, an elderly couple, an obvious computer geek and a shabby man with his pet monkey. This church welcomes all, states a sign stuck in the grass, Whether you be young or old, human or elf, fat or skinny, good or evil.
The service starts with the ceremonial taking of the rings and throwing them into the fire. They are taken out again at the end. The congregation sits in very straight rows as they chant the monotonous incantation. At first it is a soft hum, but then grows until it is a thunderous roar. The power of Sauron is definitely felt in this place of worship.
After the mass is over the congregation enjoys cake and tea out the back. The conversation is mostly friendly chatter; a few people ask me whether I might be interested in converting. I explain that I had an enjoyable time at the service, but I am already a very dedicated agnostic. Their eyes glow red, but not much more is said on the matter.
We are still judged first on how well we conform to gendered norms that were already looking tattered in 1955.
Back then, the value of a woman was determined by her sexual behaviour, function and fecundity. As it was, so it remains…
…Even the Saturday morning music videos, which appear to be exemplars of raunch culture, are pushing gender roles circa 1950: women compete against each other for the affections of men; physical appearance is a woman’s most valuable asset; sex is useful to get what you want…the most desirable man is one who spends lots of money on 'his girl.' (p. 2,3)
If women (all women) simply stopped shaving, plucking, waxing, lipsticking and hair dyeing, my bet is that love and sex would still happen. (p. 46)
The problem is that although what used to be called ‘feminine wiles’ may help individual women gain advantage in an unfair system, they hurt the larger cause of equality. It’s like the princesses and booty-shakers: the individual may gain power or privilege but the system that has taken away that power and privilege in the first place is reinforced. (p. 44)