No doubt we were all amused this week by the back-and-forth between Sports Illustrated cover model Yumi Nu and Jordan Peterson.
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‘Sorry, Not Beautiful.’
Posted in Observation with tags body image, diet, Exercise, Jordan Peterson, Naomi Wolff, plus size, Sports Illustrated, The Beauty Myth, Yumi Nu on June 22, 2022 by Jarrod Boyle
Why I Don’t Believe in the Patriarchy (But Still Consider Myself a Feminist)
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags Clementine Ford, Eurydice Dixon, feminist, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Berger, Laura Mulvey, Lisa Wilkinson, Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, The Project, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Ways of Seeing, Women Don't Owe You Pretty on February 19, 2021 by Jarrod Boyle
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When Lisa Wilkinson explained on ‘The Project’ television program that Eurydice Dixon was murdered by a man who was the pointy end of a patriarchal culture which is driven to murder women as it sexualises them, I was outraged.
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Why I Don’t Believe in the Patriarchy (But Still Consider Myself A Feminist).
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags Easter Bunny, Feminism, patriarchy, Santa Claus, Satan, sexual assault, Simone De Beauvoir, The Beauty Myth, The Female Eunuch, The Second Sex on February 16, 2021 by Jarrod Boyle
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The patriarchy is like Satan, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. Sure, there’s some kind of cause and effect involved, but the figure itself is bought into being by those wanting to explain more subtle and complex phenomena, but are happy to settle for an easy answer with a face on it.
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Lady Gaga: Magnificently Ugly
Posted in Film, Real Men with tags A Star is Born, Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, The Hangover on December 13, 2018 by Jarrod Boyle
If Hollywood filmmaking is spellcasting, A Star Is Born seduced me absolutely. Continue reading
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Rousey and Zingano – Feminist Warriors?
Posted in fighting, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags body image, Cat Zingano, Naomi Wolf, Ronda Rousey, The Beauty Myth, UFC 184 on March 24, 2015 by Jarrod BoyleThe weigh-in for the recent Ronda Rousey / Cat Zingano fight on UFC 184 was not only exciting, but also instructive on the subject of sexual politics. Continue reading
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Sam's Comment, or Showing Jarrod Who's Boss
Posted in Observation with tags A Clockwork Orange, A Room of One's Own, Betty Friedan, Cat's Eye, Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith, Dermott Brereton, George Negus, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Henry Handel-Richardson, Judith Herman, Malcolm X, Margaret Atwood, Naomi Wolf, Sam De Brito, The Beauty Myth, The Female Eunuch, The Feminine Mystique, The Lost Boys, Tim Winton, Virginia Woolf, Wilbur Smith, Yumi Stynes on March 5, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleEvery time a woman responds to something I have written on this blog relating to feminism, she claims she can’t understand it [see ‘Why I do Not Call Myself a Feminist]. I think Sam’s comment, however, is the most astute and insightful I have received here. I wanted to feature it as a post in its own right – because of its perspicacity, but also because I guess I need to talk about the grinding of this particular axe. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 