The media convey messages as horrifying as they used to be in the 60s, even if they look different. Young women are no more invited to dream about becoming wives, mothers and housekeepers (not only, at least): what is sold like female success now passes through TV shows, humiliating outfits and scripts, disfiguring plastic surgeries, scandalmongering papers, starvation diets, advertising campaigns with women looking like dolls, now even ministerial posts… and, to keep up with tradition, countless beds. Female success passes, in a word, through men. Today, just like yesterday.
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I agree that todays ads are very similar to how it was back then, but I dont think it IS as bad as it was then today. Its important though to keep in mind the avoidance of exaggerating changes and claiming we live in a post__world. Perhaps its worse for women in Italy? Especially with Berlesconi being an open, patronizing, paternalistic and misogynistic ass to women there. I would love to see him go.
This is an excellent resource, but I take some liberty with the resolute conclusion that the second-wave Feminists wanted emancipation and today third-wavers want freedom. If only these lines were so sharply and rigidly defined. There is significant disagreement between Feminists, then as well as now as to what constitutes the "mission".
Sometimes I wish our direction was strictly codified, because I think that lots of left-wing groups would have a firmer foundation upon which to engage those who are our opponents.
What is true is that patriarchy, sexism, and misogyny have morphed into more underground, less overt states, and for that matter, so has racism. And I don't doubt that in response to what we call out a new generation of these unfortunate things will form. The question I always ask is if it is truly feasible to believe that Patriarchy will ever cease to exist.
I can't help but notice that all the women at the end that you're calling smart, etc, are...thin, beautiful, and wearing makeup.
You kind of failed at that whole argument in that regard. =\