Read first or watch first?

Today, I went shopping with my friends to the Metro Town!!
I was so exited and that was so much fun in it.
we went every single store but, I did not buy anything.....

Shopping is too compricated for me.....(unless I have certain things to buy.)

Well, Today I found a interesting story called "little children"
Thre are nobel and movie. It is abput two couple who both have their own family but fall in love each other.....

This story sounds really interesting because the title "Little children" reposents all adult, who are acting like teenager or sometimes seven years old.

Well, I will start reading it as soon as I can find a novel in the libruary!!
image from www.bookclub9.com/2007-02/

Exam is over!!!

Exam is over for me!!!
I feel sympathy for those of you still writung the test....
I feel so relief!!
well, I hope I passed my courses.

Finally I can start reading book!!

Just for fun!! How feminine are you?

1) the smell mask is best described by which of the following?
Musty b) Sour c) Bitter d) pungent e) No idea
1 for d) zero for anything else
2)When other people say
nice things about me, it
makes me feel good.
a)True b) false;
c)I really don’t care
1 for a) zero for b)and C)

3. Endive is;
a)Something like grapefruit
b)Something like lettuce
c)Something like oregano
d)Something like broccoli
e)I don’t know
1 one for b) zero for anything else

4. I feel shy around new people….
Often b) sometimes c) almost never
1 for a) zero for anything else

5. The color Ocher is most similar to
Brown b) yellow c) green d) blue e) no idea
1 for b) zero for anything else

6. A person might use a serge to
a) Tidy up the kitchen
b) Dust behind the curtain
c) Decorate cake
d) Hem a dress
e) No idea
1 for d) zero for any other

7. I try to make an effort to present myself as a cheerful person, even when I am not feeling cheerful.
a) Often b) Occasionally c) seldom or never
One for a) zero for b) subtract 1 for c)

8. I can tell when someone else needs help.
a) Most of the time b) sometimes c) not so often
One for a) zero for b) subtract 1 for c)

9. People can fool me into believing things that aren’t true
a) almost never b) more often than I like to admit.
1 for b), zero for a)

10. If someone I knew feel sad, I….
Will feel sad, too, and will want to help them
Will want to help them, but probably won’t feel bad.
Won’t feel bad and won’t try to help unless specifically asked to do so.
1 for a), zero for b), subtract one for c)
Result
Add up all points.
- Minus 3 to plus 3; you are not feminist at all
- Plus 4 to plus 6; you’ve earned the Katharine Hepburn award! You are moderately feminine.
Plus 7 to 10; you are very feminine!
( congratulation if you really are WOMEN!)

Conclusion

Not all feminists appealed “Woman is good, man is bad”. Some just wanted to be equal to the men. So, some draw beauty of women in the picture, some told strength of women in literature.

Margaret Atwood

Atwood's theme of poem is often known as
“feminism” although some people find the
poem has a sexual meaning. For example,
the poem “You Fit Into Me” by Margaret Atwood

"You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
A fish hook
An open eye"


I believe it is meant as a personal experience, be it love or something else, that starts out beautiful and turns into something unkind or even brutal. I see the poem having meaning about the abuse of women, not necessarily physical. The poem is based on a metaphor. A hook and eye usually refers to a piece of hardware used to latch a door shut. Here, they reference a perfect fit. The hook is quickly turned into a weapon, and the open eye is vulnerable. The use of imagery “a hook into an open eye” creates a painful image in the readers mind which annoys the speaker in this poem. Atwood's tone may at first appear to be light and funny, but in the end it is sarcastic.

Feminism in the Art : Frida Kahlo

Self-trained Mexican artist
1907-1954
She refuses the male-dominant language of high art
worked in what has been called “dialect", which embraced the peripheries of “folk” art
Draw women’s body and her own direct experiences come into focus

What makes Frida feminist?

Most of her works are self-portraits which show an iconic figure of herself; strong, enduring, endlessly suffering, but beautiful. What her diaries reveal is a much less assured woman than her paintings suggest; a woman whose identity hinged on her relationship with her husband; a woman whose identity was shattered through the shattering of her body. Frida drew an underlying oppressive view of female sexuality. the dominance of her relationship with her husband in the representation of her self.
This picture left shows woman’s womb a baby inside. Frida expresses the strength of woman and their importance.

Feminism in the Arts - Film, painting & poem -

This picture tells that woman is the creature
who thinks about only marriage, baby, clothes
and chocolate.


Antifeminism film – pretty woman
Pretty woman – 1990, U.S. romantic comedy
A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets who he eventually fall in love with.
Why is this antifeminism film?
Man offers to pay her
$3000 to spend time with him
Pay everything for what she
needs.
Broadcast of woman who has no idea about business talk
an influx of prostitutes to work within affluent areas.

The media play a critical role in communicating notions of “race” and racism. The “race” where these can be readily observed sex through film footage and pictures


Feminism in the film
1. Woman with a power
-She's Gotta Have It (1986) - The story of woman and three men, wanted her to commit solely to them; Nola resists being "owned" by a single partner.
-Rape and Marriage(1980) - A timely drama set around the 1978 court case where a woman charged her husband with rape.
-Thelma and Louise(1991) - Two gals escape from patriarchy, kill a rapist, self-actualize while on the run from the cops, and then kill themselves.
-Enough(2002)- A woman suffer from domestic violence, is forced to fight back, engaging her husband in a physical and psychological battle

2. Woman as a lesbian
-Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) - An elderly woman recounts her lesbian feminist past in hostile, rural America.
-Imagine me and you (2005)- Story of the women who falls in love with “woman” on her wedding day and finds out her sexuality.

3. Women as a successful socialist
Out of Africa (1985)- Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience and a true love, troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband.

A League of Their Own(1992) – The dramatization
of the true story of a group of women enlisted by
the government to play baseball while the men were
in WWII. The league paved the way for new attitudes
towards women in sports.
Erin Brockovich(2000)- An unemployed single
mother becomes a legal assistant and almost
single-handedly brings down a California power
company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

Flida(2002)- A biography of the Mexican, bisexual
artist, Frida Kahlo.

Thelma and Louise Analyze


Why is this film feministic?
- Focus on man’s violence
When Thelma gets drunk,
the man attempts to rape
her and he made a fool of
them.
Woman’s power
- Louise kills rapist, also She gets her boyfriend to bring her life savings
- When a man refuses to apologize for being rude, they shoot his tanker truck which explodes

Man’s evilness

- the film describes a man as
sly as a fox, as a man who
Thelma gets along well stole her
money.
- truck driver who repeatedly makes obscene sexual gestures at them
Man’s weakness
- A police officer cries out when Louise frighten him with a gun.

Reference
Esseys in Feminism by Vivian Gornick
Canadian women’s issue by Ruth Roachpieson
Fire with fire by Naomi wolf
Woman in Canada 2000
Why gender matters by Dr. Leonard Sax