Gaga’s Feminism
We began to discuss this article Monday in class and the few
quotes we found were very interesting which brought up more topics such as
Disney’s characters. How gender roles
played a huge part in majority of their stories. Jafar, in Aladdin, where he was considered
the villain as he was feminine and how majority of women are hopeless and need
to be saved by the all American prince.
We also discussed how gender roles identify our sex throughout our
entire lives dealing with colors, dressing, and activities from early in our
childhood.
“Children are different from adults in all kinds of
meaningful ways. They inhabit different
understandings of time, and experience and the passing of time
differently. They also seamlessly transition
between that adults would not ordinarily connect in conversation.” Pg xxiii
“If some masculine women themselves as the penetrators rather
than the penetrees, then we speak of terms of pathology and we name that category
in terms of its resistance to norms. We
do not speak of men, but we do think in terms of ‘stone butch’; this allows for
butches to be caricatured as rigid, or immobile or frozen.” Pg 86.
That stands out to me because if a woman shows her masculine side then
he world judges her as thousands of different things besides what is right. It happens all the time especially dealing
with women who play sports. When guys go into fields such as hair and makeup
they are categorized as gay. There is a
movie called beauty shop in which that really shows how people judge men in feminine
considered jobs, who wasn’t gay, but the assumption was there.
Great! Say more!! 8/10
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