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From director and creator Joe Swanberg, this Netflix-original comedy anthology series explores...
Blazing Splendor
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Blazing Splendor paints an intimate portrait of the lost culture of Old Tibet and of a remarkable...
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Tune in to all RFI programmes in 14 languages live and in podcast form. Pure radio is an...
The Sean Ward Show
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The Sean Ward Show is a fan parody series about superheroes, comics, and comic con culture. If...
Metamorphoses
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Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a...
The Third Act
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A secret act is exposed. Three Chinese students studying North America, Tone, Pike and Theresa,...
Mighty Boosh, The
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The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy television show created by Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and...
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Bad Feminist in Books
Nov 23, 2017
Her essays on the intersection of feminism with misogynistic pop culture was incredibly on point, exploring E.L. James' infamous BDSM novel Fifty Shades of Grey, as well as other popular novels such as Twilight. She briefly mentions rape culture and how all of the above feeds into this notion.
Similarly her discussion on how race is portrayed in major Hollywood motion pictures is accurately disturbing - showing how African Americans are used in plots as a way to prop up white protagonists (The Help, Django Unchained).
Some of her other chapters seemed disconnected as if they were put in the book because there was no other place for it. This appears in the chapter on Scrabble. (Playing Scrabble doesn't make you a bad feminist).
There were a lot of haphazard thoughts that didn't quite thread together with the rest of the book ie. abortion rights, and male politicians' views on body autonomy. Gay was pretty adamant on her views on this, which appeared to showcase her opinion that she truly is a feminist.
The underlying message was that you may have flaws by enjoying aspects of pop culture, but as long as you are aware of how important it is that women receive equal rights, you can be any kind of feminist. But the book does feel as if she's trying to prove it to herself and to the world which seems rather unnecessary. We believe you Roxane.
Mo'Wax: Urban Archaeology: 21 Years of Mo'Wax Recordings
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Founded in England in 1993 by the young DJ and promoter James Lavelle, the record label Mo'Wax would...