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[b-enthere]

Guilt can be a good thing. It's the soul's call to action, the indication that something is wrong.

Father Lantom in Marvel’s Daredevil S02E04

[crinklemouse]

“i gotta go”

[shatinn]

McRobbie  ❤

[poisonsinperspective-blog]

Post-Feminism in Popular Culture

Post-feminism is a term used to describe reactions against contradictions and absences in feminism. It is a process by which feminist gains of the 70′s and 80′s are actively and relentlessly undermined.

In popular culture, one of the most evident ways to see post-feminism expressed is through the portrayal and ideas of female sexuality through media. Post-feminism is expressed in popular culture in a way that shows female empowerment from portraying women in a way where they can be on equal grounds with men, but at the same time, gains from feminism are still dismantled from misunderstandings of these ideals. 

According to Angela McRobbie in “Post-Feminism and Popular Culture” (2004), there are 2 ways post-feministic views can be articulated:

Double Entanglement 

By definition, it is, “the co-existence of neo-conservative values in relation to gender, sexuality and family life, with processes of liberalization in regard to choice and diversity in domestic, sexual and kinship relations,” (p.12).

In other words, a double entanglement refers to situations where female empowerment and feminist ideals appear present, but at the same time, these notions are misconstrued from the true core goals of feminism.

Complexification of the backlash 

McRobbie explains this by describing how, “Feminism is cast into the shadows, where at best it can expect to have some afterlife, where it might be regarded ambivalently by those young women who must, in more public venues, stake a distance from it, for the sake of social and sexual recognition,” (p.11). 

Whereas a double entanglement is a misunderstanding of feminism while still believing female empowerment is present, complexification of the backlash is a misunderstanding altogether on the ideals of feminism.

Ultimately, both ways of articulating the misunderstandings of feminism just reveal more into how we as people need to open our minds to truly understanding ideas for equality that go against what we find normalized.

[frownfrump]

Middle-class women have played a key role in the reproduction of class society, not just through their exemplary role as wives and mothers but also as standard-bearers for middle-class family values, for certain norms of citizenship and also for safeguarding the valuable cultural capital accruing to them and their families through access to education, refinement and other privileges.

Angela McRobbie, “Notes on What Not to Wear”