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[sebastienne]

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[neoanjou.livejournal.com]

Lovely - what a fantastic positive message.

[neoanjou.livejournal.com]

by which I mean of course the implied message that both men and women have problems which mirror each other and these problems fundamentally stem from the same causes.

[ex-leighwoos982.livejournal.com]

I found this ages ago after some clever sort posted a couple of posters from the site on the subway on my way to work. Is super awesome.

[sccye.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! This makes me happy. I enjoy it when there's room for both genders in looking for equality.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

I have to applaud the sentiment behind this, but I can't quite approve enough to repost. I don't like how cutesy it is - the use of "girls" and "boys", the "E-Z-Bake oven", the pinkness. And having a cartoony, split-down-the-middle little androgyne doesn't stop the phrasing being offensively gender-binary. Still, I guess I'd rather see media over-simplifying the principle that everyone is a victim of the patriarchy, than reinforcing the patriarchy. There's a limit to how useful stuff this simplistic can be, though.

[ex-leighwoos982.livejournal.com]

Then it is up to idividuals to use their judgement to keep them from over use of simplistic materials. The site is aimed principly at teens and youngsters- can you suggest better material for that audience?

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

people on my flist who are even marginally versed in gender theory will hopefully see it as you have; but i think my flist has enough men-who-misunderstand-feminism, as well as people to whom i have failed to explain why i think "you don't have to be female to be fucked over by the patriarchy", to make this worth posting here.

[the-whybird.livejournal.com]

Yes yes YES. Fantastic poster.

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

*smile*

[andustar.livejournal.com]

It's a poster for schools. Young kids. Not meant to be a particularly sophisticated commentary.