Feminazi

When I was in second year university, my super duper cool friend named Carrie linked an article on my Facebook on the debate about whether or not it is a smart move for women to go bra-less or if it just objectifies women. I am pretty sure the article was featuring this festival where women were going topless to voice their respect for the bodies. Some women felt that bras were empowering while others thought they made you victim of a patriarchal society. Or something. For the life of me I can't find that link. I've been googling for a good six minutes and still nothing.

Anyways, as we all know, I hate bras. But I don't let my tits (I HATE THE WORD "TITS". EW. I REALLY JUST FIND IT DISGUSTING. I THINK IT'S THE CACOPHONY OF THE T'S) flail around as a form of feminism or to hope to make guys' eyes pop out of their head. It's not so much as a feminist thing; it's more of a lazy/comfort thing. And I find it really hard to correctly clip the back of it together every day. Yesterday, I undressed to go to bed (alone) and I noticed that all day my bra had been twisted in the front. ooooops.

Still though, I hope I'm not being objectified?

Here is the start long spiel of the objectification of women in the media. I think I'll just touch on the aspect of voicelessness right now and save the rest for later. This is for two reasons: 1) I need a whole semester worth of blog topics to write on and 2) I got places to be (meaning that Jeopardy is on soon).

It's only if you've been living on top of a mountain in Nova Scotia for the last two centuries you may not have noticed that women are constantly made into voiceless objects in advertisements and TV and in music videos and in movies and in everything. Hello Kitty doesn't have a mouth does she?

I don't think I'm that extreme of a person to think that the makers of Hello Kitty sat in their studio apartment in Japan and thought, "Hehehehe if she doesn't have a mouth that'll put all those bitches out there in their place." I'm just assuming that the decision was a product of an almost unconscious internalization of what is around us in other media all the time. I don't know where it all started or anything, I'm just chattin' here.

Here's my personal favourite.



Hmmmmm. I wonder if she's keeping her bra on as a sign of empowerment or subjugation?