The Celluloid Closet Trailer

Κρίμα+Ντροπή: Πώς θα αλλάξει αυτή η τροπή;

Οι στερεοτυπικές αντιλήψεις για τις σχέσεις των δύο φύλων φαίνεται να διαιωνίζονται από γενιά σε γενιά, όπως καταδεικνύει έρευνα για τη διερεύνηση των στάσεων και της ανοχής των εφήβων απέναντι στην έμφυλη βία, που πραγματοποιήθηκε στο πλαίσιο του ευρωπαϊκού προγράμματος Youth4Youth και παρουσιάστηκε σήμερα.Η έρευνα διενεργήθηκε σε δείγμα 700 μαθητών και μαθητριών τεσσάρων Λυκείων της Αττικής. Ιδιαίτερα υψηλά είναι τα ποσοστά της ανοχής σε βίαιες συμπεριφορές, ενώ πολλοί μύθοι σε θέματα συντροφικής βίας είναι ιδιαίτερα δημοφιλείς. Είναι χαρακτηριστικό ότι το 85,9% των αγοριών, αλλά και το 76,8% των κοριτσιών πιστεύει ότι «ακούγεται πιο άσχημο όταν βρίζει ένα κορίτσι, παρά όταν βρίζει ένα αγόρι».

Hysteria

Σύντομα βγαίνει στους κινηματογράφους η αγγλική ταινία Hysteria με τους  Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rupert Everett και  Hugh Dancy. Η ταινία, που είναι μια ρομαντική κωμωδία εποχής, έχει σαν βάση ένα υπαρκτό πρόσωπο τον ιατρό Joseph Mortimer Granville τον εφευρέτη του πρώτου ηλεκτρικού δονητή.

An attack on YOU: Nora Ephron '62 addressed the graduates in 1996.

President Walsh, trustees, faculty, friends, noble parents...and dear class of 1996, I am so proud of you. Thank you for asking me to speak to you today. I had a wonderful time trying to imagine who had been ahead of me on the list and had said no; I was positive you'd have to have gone to Martha Stewart first. And I meant to call her to see what she would have said, but I forgot. She would probably be up here telling you how to turn your lovely black robes into tents.

Vagina, Vagina, Vagina

Jessica Valenti on June 15, 2012 - 12:44 PM ET

Yesterday, Michigan Representative Lisa Brown was banned from speaking after having the audacity to use the word “vagina” in a debate over an anti-abortion bill. Apparently, it’s not enough that Republicans have made it a political priority to roll back women’s reproductive rights—they also want to ensure that we remain silent as they do it.
Representative Mike Callton, for example, was absolutely scandalized by Brown’s comments: “What she said was offensive.… It was so offensive, I don’t even want to say it in front of women. I would not say that in mixed company.” (He does realize that this mixed company likely has vaginas, yes?)

Marianne Schnall speaks w/ Gloria Steinem

Conversation with Gloria Steinem
by Marianne Schnall

Note from Marianne Schnall: I originally interviewed Gloria Steinem back in 1995 (click here to read my 1995 interview). Eleven years later it was a pleasure to talk to her again and discuss her latest thoughts and insights.

INTERVIEW WITH GLORIA STEINEM(12/5/06)

Marianne Schnall: I just wanted to thank you for doing this interview, and for all your long-time support of Feminist.com. As you know, you’ve always been a hero of mine, and an inspiration to me - as well as to so many others - so thank you for all that you are and all that you do.
Gloria Steinem: Oh, thank you. And thank you for being a pioneer – when nobody else was understanding that feminist could have a dot com!
MS: There seem to have been some promising developments recently – we now have a democratically-controlled Congress, the first female speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the first evening news anchor Katie Couric, and even a very real prospect that we may have at least one woman running for President in the next election with a realistic chance of winning. Surely these are all good signs?
GS: They are all good signs, yes.
MS: My nine-year-old daughter was really mystified when I recently pointed out to her that there had never been a woman president. It is sort of astounding. And now it feels like maybe for the first time that it could be a realistic possibility.
GS: Yes, and it’s important -- because for one thing, little girls would look at themselves and women in a different way if they could imagine being the head of the country. It would free their hopes. And it would free the imaginations of little boys to see female and male authority. However, it doesn’t necessarily change the structural problems just to have one person at the top.
MS: As one of the original founders of the modern women’s movement, what do you think about where we are now on the road to equality? Would you have expected us to be farther along than we are all these years later?
GS: If I’d been trying to imagine this time 30 or 35 years ago, I think I would have been surprised that we have majority support on pretty much all of the issues now. In the beginning, we were so subject to ridicule -- even to the charge that we were going against nature -- that to see majorities in public opinion polls now would have been a big surprise. However, given that, I would have been surprised that we have such a disastrous administration with such anti-women and war-loving policies. I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn’t help unless the majority is active and votes – but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.
MS: What do you think are the biggest challenges that women face today?

Steinem interviews

Steinem clips

Gloria Steinem

First, who is she? Take a look here & here is what she started: http://ms.foundation.org/
Then, what is she about? Here are a series of clips for you...