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by elliehutch @ 2006-07-19 - 14:59:06

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WAGS, Glamour models, raunch culture, Jodie Marsh, the Spice Girls etc etc- Are they truely complicit in their own oppression? I would say yes yes and yes BUT just come accross this post by witchy-woo about the "Angry Wimmin" programme on BBC2 and has made me have an hmm moment.... Am I a misogynist??
Witchy woo says of 70's radicals

Nowhere at all did any of them blame another woman for her 'complicity' in the oppression of women. Academic radical feminist analysis at the time placed responsibility for the oppression of women fairly and squarely on patriarchial systems of oppression. It still does. Radical feminists did not - and still don't - point the finger at other women.

I see women like Jodie Marsh, Posh Spice, Lea from Big Bro (in fact all the ladies from Big Brother) and I think-where's their choice? Why are they perpetuating it? But by doing so, I am "laying the blame at these women's feet" Are they not also victims of a system whereby they must look/behave like that- the same as me? These are grown women with minds of thier own and active lifes to live so by me assuming they have no control- OR are some how to blame for the system they (and I) live within am I (gulp) a misogynist?

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saralousaralou [Member]
2006-07-21 @ 10:02

Although these women are responsibile for the way they look and who they dress for, the fact that they have had a finger pointed at them because of it again suggests that it is women who are to blame for the ideals of raunch culture. If you look at the rise of mags like FHM and laddette culture back in the 90's there was a silmultanous explosion of freedom of sexuality the laddette culture promoted and the gaze of the male voyer over the female.To blame the female for this and those females who choose to express raunch culture is to lay the blame at their door. As if porn and soft porn mags like FHM have nothing to do with it. As if the backlash of laddette culture which promised(like so much of the 90's) to be a doorway to freedom., has had nothing to do with it. It's a difficult one though as to cite media influences as the reason for certain behaviour is again to relegate human beings without choice, however as we know human beings are often quite malleable creatures.

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