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[mstakenidentity]

This rant by Joss Whedon was linked to on a community I'm in. I don't quite agree with his theory (one of the other women in the comm refered to it as the MIGHTY WOMB WARRIOR theory) but I thought it was a good read. I like that his rants can run into each other.

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Re: I think I agree with you, but want to hear your thoughts.

[mstakenidentity.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I certainly think he is oversimplifying what one can do about injustice (possibly because in a blog he's pandying to the lowest common denominator). Actually that is probably my main problem with the whole thing; over-simplifications. An American film trailer does not equate to the amateur filming of a woman being stoned to death. Misogyny can not be boiled down simply to "womb-envy", just as a woman can not, and should not, be seen purely as a womb.

Re: I think I agree with you, but want to hear your thoughts.

[thekit.livejournal.com]

Reflecting on the response to this... his charge into the blogosphere seems to have generated more discussions than the original video did.

That is disturbing.

I get a terrible feeling that if he'd just said "here's a video of an atrocity, and btw everybody seems to have a camera phone" there'd be nothing to forward on and the footage would probably have languished in a user-contrib snuff-porn site like Ogrish.com.

Gross simplifications for the win?