I have a daughter who’s 10 and we walked past a...

28th February 2012

Quote reblogged from 早世勇気 with 1,246 notes

I have a daughter who’s 10 and we walked past a billboard the other day advertising a TV programme. There was a row of men in suits and a woman in a thong. My daughter said, “Why is it like that? It’s to sell it, isn’t it?” She knows that already. I said, “Yes, it’s a shame a young woman would want to be portrayed in that way,” and she said, “But it’s her choice, isn’t it? Nobody made her do that.” So how do you explain the Gramscian concept of hegemony to a 10 year old? If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?

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Monica Ali (via petitefeministe)

If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?

^ That just needed repeating.

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I needed this on my blog again… I’ve been thinking about it quite a lot lately, in regards to so many aspects of my life AND our society as a whole.

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oh man I’ve wondered last line for a long time.

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Damn. Hahaha.

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Everything that is said here. EVERYTHING—including the comments. All of it.

This is why I don’t feel comfortable about having been raised and continuing to live in the U.S. sometimes. Cartoons like Tom and Jerry teach us at an early age that “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.” And so many of us do it to support such unethical ways of life without even realizing it—or some of us do realize it, and just don’t give a fuck anymore. That just sickens me. Seriously.

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