Just saw Greta Gerwig’s Little Women<\/i>. I loved it!<\/p>\n
Even more, I realized I was watching what might be the most radically feminist film I have ever seen coming out of mainstream Hollywood. I’ll explain.<\/p>\n
The cast consisted mostly of beautiful actresses. Yet unlike just about any Hollywood film you have ever seen, there was not a single shot that objectified or sexualized any of those actresses. The traditional “male gaze” was simply absent.<\/p>\n
But Gerwig’s film goes even further than that. Within this story that is being told from a female perspective, the camera makes a point, at every possible moment, of gleefully objectifying the attractive leading men in the cast.<\/p>\n
That, my friends, is a brilliant act of subversively radical feminism. And to their credit, Gerwig and her producers managed to drop it down right smack in the middle of our obliviously patriarchal culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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