Sunday, November 7, 2010

Possessive nouns

Ok so this post has nothing to do with possessive nouns but since Nora is always reffered to as a pet or doll I figured I would google "women as possessions". Of course today I chose to "feel lucky", and I do get lucky as looky here, I stumbled upon another blog.http://cynjonnoah.blogspot.com/2010/02/women-are-possessions-or-gi-joe.html
Even though I'm now blogging, I felt this blogger was just complaining.
Yes, gi joe was a bad movie.
Yes, the army has a tradition of degrading men by calling them ladies. Has no one seen Full Metal Jacket? That movie spends the first have degrading a man until he goes postal.
Are you really going to call G.I. Joe sexist for that?
There is a difference between calling making your wife your pet or trying to lord over her, and saying poor story writing is sexist. Nora left Helmer cause he was a chauvenist, even if unintentionally. G.I. Joe was trying to be different by adding women into the mix other than the original G.I. Joe nurse. In fact they are making progress in the movie compared to the original G.I. Joes series.
I guess the point of this post is even though feminism has a role in modern day society, complete fanatics like this blogger don't always have to be right despite good intentions. While "A Doll's House" did a great job of showing the oppression of women, this blogger fails and just makes herself look like a bleeding heart that doesn't even take time to do her research.

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