SilverStar17
Super Freak
I would largely agree with what you said. Yes, there are those who do have the privilege of not having to experience what someone else experiences or what others experience; however, at the same time, that doesn't mean they are ignoring others' plight because often times I feel that many people don't deny or dismiss that a person may have had their own individual experiences that causes them to feel a certain way, and would be more than happy to help them with that fight if there was a single entity that wronged them, but I feel the issue is that unfortunately, that person often times has a difficult time naming or pointing to a single entity, preferring to user a broader brush and use terms such as "systemic", "systematic" or "institutional" when there are just as many examples which demonstrate that is actually not the case. It's like going to a doctor and simply saying "I hurt." When the doctor asks you where exactly, you just keep repeating "I hurt." You can't help someone fight something that's "institutional" if they can't point you in the direction of any institution in particular where this is taking place with strong evidence that it's systemic within that institution. If they can, I think most people would be more than happy to help because they would agree that there is a form of injustice that is taking place.
I thought WW was a great film because it demonstrated that you can still have a strong female character who embodies all the qualities you would want in a strong individual or character, while still having a strong male role who embodies all those same qualities. WW is a heroine because she fights for the innocent and the downtrodden; qualities people generally like to see with their superheroes. There's definitely feminist undertones with the character in the sense that she comes from a place where men are viewed as weak and that she is more powerful than any other man she would come across in the outside world, and views a secretarial position as being a menial role for a woman and a modern form of "slavery". However, at the same time, she'll stop mid sentence and digress from what she's doing so she can coo at a cute little baby and ends up falling in love with a just as heroic man, despite her upbringing and teachings.
I think some of those qualities sort of made her character a bit unappealing to the harder core feminists whose brand of feminism isn't based on true equality of rights (which even then, I'd argue what rights in particular have been lost or are being denied on a systemic level), but wrongly on abortion, man hating and forceful opposition to general cultural standards of beauty. However, within the Hollywood, media and academia ranks, I believe that the latter brand of "feminism" unfortunately tends to be regarded as what feminism is largely based on, which I would agree is not the norm, but many people are made to believe so because those three entities have the loudest voices in society and the shaping of the culture.
hard to believe so called journalists can write such drivel.
