tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post1202870007238180210..comments2024-03-13T11:14:26.768-04:00Comments on A Radical Profeminist: Sexting & Sex Education & SafetyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-23166973318540979992009-02-26T13:50:00.000-05:002009-02-26T13:50:00.000-05:00Welcome, Astrakan.Thanks for your comment! I've be...Welcome, Astrakan.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your comment! I've been hearing this male supremacist/heterosexist/misogynist myth for my whole life about how "men are NATURALLY drawn to women visually" in ways that men are not, apparently, drawn to men, nor women to women (ageist, ableist and pornographised assumptions implicit in this silly notion not questioned, among other dubious assumptions; and what to do about intersex and trans folks with this stupid-ass theory: oh my!) This is generating so much in me right now--such feelings of upset and rage--that I think I'll do a separate post, copying and pasting your comment as the observational and conversational launch-point. <BR/><BR/>Btw, I'm very glad I feel upset and rage; both, among other feelings, let me know that dominant U.S. Western culture hasn't completely seduced and enthralled my mind, making me think, for example, that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's near-encounter with Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer at this year's Academy Awards show was the most important thing to have happened so far this year. Oh, wait: no, THE most important thing to have happened this year was that a woman gave birth to octuplets (and the media gave birth to more misogynist vitriol than I've seen directed at one very disenfranchised human being in a very long time).<BR/><BR/>Yes, I have heard there is to be a movie made of the novel Push, and feel both eager and worried. <BR/><BR/>I am excited for this moving story to be told in a medium that will garner it a larger audience. I am extremely nervous about how certain scenes will be depicted by the director, because of exactly what you note in your comment here: "It is like everything we do much turn a profit for someone." I hope the story, and specifically the character of Precious, will not be visually or otherwise exploited in any number of potentially reprehensible ways.<BR/><BR/>I am very encouraged by the fact that Sapphire is co-author of the screenplay. And we'll see what Lee Daniels does with the powerful material. <BR/><BR/>I personally hope most of the money Push-the-film generates goes to Sapphire and Womanist and feminist organisations and individuals who, through their own creative/activist work are making the complexity and humanity of Black lesbian and Queer of Color experience more visible and central in society-at-large. <BR/><BR/>One example: tiona.m's excellent documentary, black./womyn.: conversations with lesbians of African descent. So far I believe it's only been shown at film festivals. It's amazing. Have you had the opportunity to seen tiona.m's film yet?Julian Realhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02933612851144914687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-90523118117668547912009-02-23T09:09:00.000-05:002009-02-23T09:09:00.000-05:00What you have written here speaks truths that go u...What you have written here speaks truths that go unheard and ignored much too often. <BR/><BR/>It is sad when feminists discuss how consuming or producing such flattened, emotionally empty images is empowering in some way. <BR/><BR/>I wonder where this reliance on expressing and consuming (what is marketed as) sexuality through purely visual means comes from? We do have other senses after all, and it isn't as if people do nothing but gawk at one another! I wonder who benefits from destroying humane ways of communication and expression? It is like everything we do must turn a profit for someone. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, have you heard that there is a movie based on the novel Push?Astrakhanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06235891137487705449noreply@blogger.com