Susan Sarandon: 'Feminism is a bit of an old-fashioned word' | From the Observer | The Observer Susan Sarandon photographed in Los Angeles for the Observer by Steve Schofield 2013. Photograph: Contour by Getty In Arbitrage, you play the wife of a multi-millionaire hedge fund manager who is stronger than she first appears. Arbitrage Production year: 2012 Country: USA Cert (UK): 15 Runtime: 107 mins Directors: Nicholas Jarecki Cast: Brit Marling, Laetitia Casta, Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth More on this film Absolutely and I was also taken by Nicholas Jarecki's enthusiasm and passion, and Richard Gere, I've known forever and I got to work with him. I think that what happens in a long relationship [like the one in the film] – and the longest I've ever had was 23 years – is that people have assumptions and firm habits in the way they relate to each other. You're known for playing strong women… Except I don't particularly think of them as strong. Would you call yourself a feminist? It's a bit of an old-fashioned word. [Laughs] My heart gets broken often. You mean it's boring?
Etre un espace féministe safe Suite à mon article d'hier, deux femmes sont venues me parler de certains commentaires. L'une m'a demandé d'enlever certains commentaires qui la rendaient malade. L'autre m'a dit ne pas être en sécurité ici et se sentir agressée, mal à l'aise dans un espace "non safe". Une autre commentatrice me dit : "Mais punaise, une fois qu'on a conscience de cette socialisation des hommes a étouffer la parole des femmes, et des femmes a les écouter jusqu’à douter de leur propre vécu on a du mal (enfin moi en tout cas) a ne pas vouloir un peu plus d'espaces safe. Qu'est ce déjà qu'une espace féministe safe ? Vous le savez pour certains, je fais un métier qui me confronte régulièrement à la saloperie humaine, je suis donc relativement blindée face à ce genre de propos. Donc est ce que Crêpe Georgette peut être un espace safe pour les féministes qui le souhaiteraient ? Maintenant une note pour tous ces gens qui débarquent, squattent les commentaires, pensent arriver avec des idées originales. Enfin.
Language Log Our Society Urges Girls To Take Up Less Space And Boys To Take Up More, And It Needs To Stop It’s fairly typical for women to fold into themselves making room for others in public spaces, while many men seem comfortable splaying themselves out. Where did this behavior come from, asks Soraya Chemaly? I’m guessing that people aren’t going through their days thinking to themselves, “How much space do I displace?” It’s an interesting question though. Especially if you have kids. To this day, when I sit—in a chair, on a bus, a train, at a desk—I hear my primary school headmistress explain that ladies never cross their legs at the knees. Then, one day, my daughters, active athletes, started sitting like New York Knicks players sitting on the bench watching a game. Saying that we live in a visual culture and that this visual culture affects all of our lives would be the understatement of the century. How bodies look and are used, how much space they take up, is important. Visualized gender and race stereotypes represent, reflect, and create societal norms and interactions. Soraya L.
Representing gender in children's reading materials would a boy have been shown with flowers in the 1970s? Are girls and boys portrayed differently in children’s reading materials today than in the past? During the 1970s and 80s, studies of children’s reading materials found that males not only featured more than females but also they tended to take the lead roles and were more active than their female counterparts, who were often restricted to traditional stereotyped roles. Many of these earlier studies of gender in children’s reading material analysed the texts based on their content, which meant that researchers made their own judgements about what was sexist and what was not. Now, however, advances in computer and electronic technology mean that ‘corpus linguistics’ can be used to analyse texts more systematically. Using this method, John Macalister set about answering the question of how far gender roles in writing for children had changed since the 1970s.
I Really Want to Be Well: Healing Trauma is Central to My Feminist Practice A breakthrough is nothing more than an awakened breakdown. I have had plenty of breakdowns that I have survived, but I haven’t always been fully aware of what was happening in the moment. I just kept going. I know some tools to help get myself out of the dumps without spiraling to pits so low. But there comes a point when what you have collected in terms of wounds and scars — no matter how you have managed to carry them, rearrange them, and make them beautiful — weigh in too heavy, and you are forced to stop. I realized I was at that place where breakdown meets breakthrough last week. I have been struggling with a bout of depression, something I have struggled with since I was a child. But this time, getting out isn’t enough. I have decided to face my trauma head on and really heal. Healing ourselves — body, spirit, and mind — is essential to feminism. And many of us long to be free. Many of us are organizers, writers, artists, teachers, scholars, laborers, social workers. What’s wrong? Kai M.
East Norfolk English Language Dresden Shumaker: Raising a Son Within the Princess Culture I grew up the daughter of a feminist. Mom was always involved with local association of women chapters and always made sure I knew that girls could do ANYTHING. I went to an all-girls school for grades 8, 9 and 10. Those were prime years for defining a sense of self. When I found out that I was going to have a son, I was so surprised. Immediately, I had visions of this super-aggressive and dominant child. But a funny thing happened when I met my son — I started to realize how destructive girl power can be to boys. Let me be clear — I absolutely know that there is a need to make sure that girls and women know that what is between their legs should not limit them to achieve anything that their heart is guiding them towards. But here is what I sadly realized: Within modern girl power, there seems to be a message that girls are better than boys. There are also a lot of double standards when it comes to proclaiming, “girls can do anything!” I have a son who lives within the princess culture.
Men and women: are we really worlds apart? - Features Do women and men talk differently? And, if they do, why? Kitty Sadler explores the theories Kitty Sadler, 13 March 2011 Everybody knows men are from Mars and women are from Venus. Everybody knows that we women whine and hint, that we always want to talk about our feelings, while men command and state facts, right? There's no denying it: no education or social conditioning has succeeded in erasing the differences between the language of men and women. For Otto Jespersen and other linguists from the early 20th century, a woman is not a man's counterpart; she is his wife. Despite an investigation into memory in which women came out on top, it was still asserted that it was men who had the higher intellectual capacity - it was easier to succeed in the test when the subject was enough of an airhead that they could make use of "the vacant chambers of the mind". It's not just old men born in the 19th century who have supported deficiency theory. Really.
The Pain of Being Feminist in an Anti-Feminist World I disabled my YouTube comments. “Really?” a friend of mine tweeted to me. “Doesn’t the comments section provide a real opportunity for discourse, other than the occasional jerk?” I snorted. “Occasional?” The decision to take such a drastic measure didn’t come easily. But at the end of the day, despite some of the benefits, I decided that my own emotional well-being was (and should be!) “I get far more comments akin to ‘back to the kitchen, whore!’ And for what? Well, for being a woman, for one. For being a feminist. The truth is, disabling my YouTube comments came easily, compared with my other often-fantasized solution: dropping out of the public eye entirely and holing up in a one-room shack with just my cat and my books for the rest of my life. But when I hit these roadblocks where I’m forced to evaluate my place in the world and the world’s place within me, there are two conclusions that I always come to. The other is that the pain is real. And it stings. 1. 2. His response? 3. 4. 5.
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