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r_a_l_i_g_h

F5

Jan 28, 2010 14:44

So, do you remember how last year I was all agog about this awesome multi-fandom vid celebrating females from all forms of movies and television?

And then omoo talked about being angry at the common portrayal of women in fiction and we tried to name positive role models [but] had a really hard time, and were a bit depressed by that. And I took up the ( Read more... )

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petunia846 January 28 2010, 22:36:40 UTC

I will participate, but what should I do?!

r_a_l_i_g_h January 30 2010, 01:31:01 UTC

Whatever you want!

~ Find awesome fanfic, fanvids, clips, quotes, pictures, etc that demonstrate and celebrate the awesomeness of fictional females you love.

~ Post them in your journal and rave like the proud fangirl you are!

~ Tell other people, try to recruit them to do the same thing.

~ Repeat.

omoo January 29 2010, 13:05:53 UTC

Oh, fun!

Lately, I've been coming across (or finally noticing) all these references to real women who did extraordinary things for their time. This is partly probably due to my ignorance of history or that my view of the past is the stereotypical. One in which all 1950s women were stay at home moms, all women in the 1800s could be lumped into a class structure. I’m intrigued when I come across references of women who went against the grain of their time.

r_a_l_i_g_h January 30 2010, 01:49:32 UTC

Yeah, women are so often glossed over or generalized in the overview of history but when you study the specific lives of individual women? It is unbelievable the impact and/or power some of them held.