Sleep deprivation is not conducive to blogging and writing in general. I’ve been working on an English paper, a sci-fi novel, and now this blog post since 11:30 last night, so its crazy that I have been sitting and typing for fourteen hours straight, but I’m not inclined to go to bed now and I ain’t got anything better to do right now. So here goes:
Megan Fox of Transformers fame has a new movie coming out. It’s called Jennifers Body, and its about two girls. One’s the hot prom queen type, and the other is the nerdy type. You know the highschool stereotypes in movies. However Megan’s character is supposedly pure evil, puts cigarettes out on her tongue and kills boys for fun. Not that she does not kill people, she goes and kills boys because they’re just boys.
And that’s big telling of the way the media and our culture views the male gender. Its funny and cool to brutally murder and kill men on the big screen. The only reason one of the boy’s in the movie is valued is that she is the bookish girl’s brother and therefore he’s a special boy, and therefore unlike other boys deserves the special treatment and consideration that he isn’t just a boy and it isn’t cool to kill him.
Pretty crappy, and another indictment to the man hater that is Megan Fox, who doesn’t like men and thinks that girls that have dated men are icky and therefore can’t date her even though she says she identifies as bisexual. Yup, man-hating is deeply ingrained and cooll now in today;s culture. Sick and sad.
September 13, 2009 at 4:28 am |
Oh no! Not male-bashing! Not in a society in which females are constantly sex objects and victims in the media (And gotta love those barely legal high school girls and glorifying sex with minors or barely legal kids in movies!) We can’t have male-bashing when it’s okay to glorify crimes against women (peeping on them if they are hot is cool! It’s not a violation of privacy!) And we can’t have male-bashing when it’s totally okay to feature women in the media based on their looks at not their talent! Or when the media and male speech constantly imply that being female is degrading! Why, even with all this going on, we should all stop and focus on what Megan Fox thinks! Just think of how it will affect men in society! Nevermind that women have been treated as lesser humans for centuries and are just barely scratching the surface of actually being viewed as having equal value! Quick! Everyone boycott the movie and watch something with a hot sexy girl who flaunts herself around as a sex object for the male gaze but who DOESN’T kill men. It will be the same movie, but without hurting the male ego! It will only affect girls! That will make it all better!
September 16, 2009 at 6:19 am |
So Sirius,
your saying that because yes women have been oppressed, that this movie is okay, becasue this is some type of “payback”.
That is pretty stupid to me.
The last time someone tried to get payback to a certian group of people, didn’t 50 million people die?
And nobody did “glorify” the peep hole story.
You made that up.
So whats next? gas and ovens with pornos in them to lure men into them?
Your disgusting.
September 17, 2009 at 12:26 am
No, I wasn’t saying that. Clearly you weren’t sure, since you asked. So next time, wait for an answer before making an ass of yourself.
No, I’m not saying the movie is okay. You’re completely missing the point. I’m saying it’s ridiculous to make an issue of it because of the issues I’ve mentioned above. Every year TONS of movies come out with girls being objectified in movies, being treated as sex objects for use, with girls who can’t count to ten… but these movies are seen as being acceptable because only women are being stomped on, not men. But when you add the element of killing men to their eye candy, suddenly they have a problem.
So basically what I’m saying is, there are many men bothered by the content of this movie, but none of these men are standing up against what is happening to women in 98% of the other movies on the market. Women are having a hard enough time standing up against these movies. Of course this movie from Meagan Fox isn’t going to register on the radar as being remotely important. Especially because, although Meagan Fox bashes men, she’s clearly trying extremely hard to be the male fantasy… and is, in other words, completely relying on men for her fame.
And yes, crimes against women are always being glorified in movies. The peeping issue was an example. I’ve seen movies that aren’t even rated R in which a woman was put in a situation that would normally humiliate most people. But because the men in the audience got to see some skin, it was accepted.
This is not about revenge, it’s about priorities. Revenge solves nothing. But also, only taking care of this one movie won’t solve the issues in society, nor will it take care of the issues that are brought up in the rest of the movies that belittle women. Also, this movie doesn’t raise women up in any way. Meagan Fox is still a sex object to ogle, there are girl on girl scenes for guys… so basically, this movie wouldn’t make women feel any better about who they are in the first place.
November 22, 2009 at 4:16 pm |
Yup, man-hating is deeply ingrained and cooll now in today;s culture. Sick and sad.
*ack* Feeling threatened, like you need to be on alert 24 hours a day to avoid being molested/raped/abused…. oh wait…you are not a female, in fact you’re male Nevermind.
The power of the patriarchy be upon you! But we should blame that man-hating Megan Fox for challenging your default privileged status.
Sirius, you must be made of patience.