Ooh I see. Thats one solid mix-up. But I still think its good to take it seriously as a controversy, even though it shouldn’t be as it’s positive change. The backlash shows it’s still a fight to be faught
Ooh I see. Thats one solid mix-up. But I still think its good to take it seriously as a controversy, even though it shouldn’t be as it’s positive change. The backlash shows it’s still a fight to be faught
Of course you can. The female m&m was not depicted as a feminist though, was it?
Might be a free win for the company, which of course only cares about profit, but I think it’s still somewhat important development of discourse as it is the dismounting of sexism
I don’t know if you have noticed, but cartoon characters depicted as female are usually depicted as sexy. Almost always in pubs.
If you care about oppression, you will understand how the reduction to being sexy for men (“objectification”) of women all over society is important. Imagine the violence of not being seen as a person by default, an agent, but an object to male desire, the male gaze.
Again and again, since the wake of feminism, men bring up that relativist argument. Oh you feel oppressed because over your whole lifetime and that of your mother and sisters men treat you like a peace of pretty meat? Well, wrong, honey, look at “literal real problems”.
This is the relativist argument I was talking about
Playing off one kind of oppression against another has never done any good to emancipatory endeavor (aka the left)
Well, kinda, yeah. Discoursive power is a thing and brings sorrow. The recent change (also called “wokeness”) that adresses the reproduction of sexism is accordingly important.
As I understood that post, it redicules said change in discourse. So it contains this discoursive element of men making fun of feminism, or at least applying some whataboutism, as seen my fellow responder, doesn’t it?
And I mean that, maybe I’m wrong. I’m open to criticism.
“Hello I’m a man and the public objectification of women as per se sexual objects in popculture is not relevant. Am I right guys hahaha?”
I thinl you would really need to adress my short answer to your comment if you take this forum or it’s members serious in any way. This also means you’d need to do it if you take your own Impetus serious…
Neccessary tactical support for the democrats should not blind us regarding their standing towards class. I guess this is what OP wants us to remember
A trait in common does not equal identity
The fight for hegemony is always a cultural one. Cultural workers positioning themselves in political conflicts, IS struggle for ethical-moral leadership. Here society fights out what interpretation of the social world is leading, and thus on the long run, which political alliance will be able to lead society.