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Floatbox · 4081 days ago · link · · parent · post: Blurring the Lines of Feminism: A Criticism of the Criticism of “Blurred Lines”
This underlines the strength and weakness of feminism, and all critical theory: it's about the subtext. And the subtext, ladies and gentlemen, is created part and parcel by the reader/viewer/critic. It's nuanced. And it is (in wanting to be disseminated) inflammatory. Engaged with superficially, critical theory can be pretty damn stifling. But if you watched the video, then read the criticism, then read the criticism of the criticism, and hell maybe even read this analysis of Miley's VMA then you'd have a pretty damned nuanced snapshot of modern american sexuality in mainstream culture. All this is healthy. Only some of it, not so much. Such is politics.