The Hackenblog has moved to http://hackenblog.hackenbush.org/ or www.hackenblog.com.Please update your links, thank you.[Previous entry: "Your Monday YouTube"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Aeon Flux"] 06/20/2006 Entry: "Comics: y the last man" "I wrote about the book (Y, The Last Man) because the book is 'crazy popular' and it's getting a strong socially responsible buzz, which is not only sad, but criminal. Empowerment and porn are starting to merge no one seems to care! Hey, if the film is made by a smart director, maybe a woman who sees the farce and fetish among the blood, maybe something good will come out of it, but I doubt that's what's going to happen." I wrote about this book two years ago and was called all kinds of names. I finally had to turn off the comments. Lene T at I Read Comics podcasted about it and was flamed so badly on the Brian K Vaughn boards, BKV himself deleted the thread. Empowerment and porn are starting to merge no one seems to care! When 3rd wave feminism implodes, this will be one of the top three reasons. Thanks, younger sisters and porn merchants. 150 years of femimism up the spout just to sell a few more G-strings, sorry, I mean thongs. Edit 062406: Oh my God, there's a whole book about porn as empowerment: Thongs, implants and the death of real passion. Lap dancers, porn stars, big-lipped, zeppelin-breasted exhibitionists - meet the new role models for young British women. And, says feminist writer Ariel Levy, women are not just accepting this supersexualised culture - they are fuelling it. But are "female chauvinist pigs" really to blame? Interview by Kira Cochrane. Interview with author so you don't actually have to read the book to know what it's about. Doncha love the internets? Posted by GM Replies: 1 Comment I read the piece you linked me. It's funny that people were enraged because I think you hit that nail everyone's always talking about, straight on the head. Especially when you talk about the way that feminism is the new "Nazi." Those Amazons are the thing I hate most about the book. I have always seen Amazons as heroic, maybe that makes me sad, but there you go. It all reminds me of Sidney Poitier. There was a time when it seemed like Sidney was the only black person in films. Don't get me wrong, I love Sidney, but he always played the most acceptable black man a white person could meet. Of course in "Guess Whose Coming to Dinner" the white parents accept him marrying their daughter, he's a doctor, he is well traveled, wealthy, "He's Sidney Poitier damn it!" But would those parents except a normal black man, who maybe didn't have all the breaks but was a good person? Sidney Poitier was what white people would allow to grace their screens without men feeling threatened and without white culture having to deal with the realities of cultural oppression. So today we get female empowerment in a tight, short skirt and some cleavage. Woman can be strong and tough as long as they are really small and dainty. (exception= Xena) So women get their empowerment and men enjoy the show knowing that small girls have little chance against big guys in real life. Men are never truly threatened so it all creates a nice little fantasy world for them. "Y the Last Man" certainly turns that up a notch more. Since all the men are dead all bets are off. We can see women doing anything and its all good! I think the comparison with "Planet of the Apes" is much closer than "A Boy and His Dog." I bet any day BKV writes Yorick a line like "Get your hands off me you Damn Dirty Woman!!" I blame those damn Bratz dolls the young kids like. Posted by Stuff Daddy @ 06/20/2006 02:24 PM PST
 
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