Comments on: You feminists just want to tell women to do what you want, instead of letting them CHOOSE (and we all know girls just naturally prefer the girly stuff) http://hoydenabouttown.com/20080616.1836/you-feminists-just-want-to-tell-women-to-do-what-you-want-instead-of-letting-them-choose-and-we-all-know-girls-just-naturally-prefer-the-girly-stuff/ Feminist Revolution: one cartwheel at a time Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:30:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Other people’s posts « don’t ya wish your girlfriend was smart like me? http://hoydenabouttown.com/20080616.1836/you-feminists-just-want-to-tell-women-to-do-what-you-want-instead-of-letting-them-choose-and-we-all-know-girls-just-naturally-prefer-the-girly-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-34587 Other people’s posts « don’t ya wish your girlfriend was smart like me? Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:02:04 +0000 http://viv.id.au/blog/?p=1836#comment-34587 [...] Hoyden About Town (and Feminism 101) on problematizing “choice.” This is something that I wish everyone would understand, and not only as it relates to feminism. Time and again, people tell me that I can’t criticize representations of women in film, or that participating in “posing culture” is practically “do or die” for female celebrities, or about critiquing the sexism of/discrimination in the porn industry, etc etc because  well, women “choose” to do these things.  You’ve heard it: “well don’t be an actress then if the roles for women suck ass,” and the like. Or, “she’s choosing to pose naked, so why critique the industry? Women should just stop doing it if the industry is so male-biased”…etc, etc. This is something that I will definitely blog about in the future, but this post is a great start. [...] [...] Hoyden About Town (and Feminism 101) on problematizing “choice.” This is something that I wish everyone would understand, and not only as it relates to feminism. Time and again, people tell me that I can’t criticize representations of women in film, or that participating in “posing culture” is practically “do or die” for female celebrities, or about critiquing the sexism of/discrimination in the porn industry, etc etc because  well, women “choose” to do these things.  You’ve heard it: “well don’t be an actress then if the roles for women suck ass,” and the like. Or, “she’s choosing to pose naked, so why critique the industry? Women should just stop doing it if the industry is so male-biased”…etc, etc. This is something that I will definitely blog about in the future, but this post is a great start. [...]

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