Girl Power (protest)
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First, what?
Second, how is this a protest?
Lastly, after some of the stuff that's been filtering around the board lately... I'm officially starting to like you more assari. You're moving up in the ranks! Congratulations! :clap:
Second, how is this a protest?
Lastly, after some of the stuff that's been filtering around the board lately... I'm officially starting to like you more assari. You're moving up in the ranks! Congratulations! :clap:
1. ?
2. This is a protest against the manipulation.
Girl Power is a fashion thing.
3. I'm not an entertainer, but thank anyway.
1. Nothing, but I see that thay have this "Girl Power"-attitude.
2. Read the first reply.
I was mainly referring to your second sentence which is... a little broken.
It's not really manipulation. It was introduced as part of the music scene. Spice Girls more or less kicked it off. It came from pop culture, but eventual evolved into more as women started adopting the style and "attitude" which promoted independence, thus it started to see applications beyond it's fashionable pop culture roots. It eventually was adopted by many of the younger sex-positive feminists.
So it has somewhat questionable roots, being launched by a label's prefab band, but eventually grew into legitimacy.
1. Ok
2. In my view it is a good thing if there is one girl band who says that they have the "Girl Power", but if there are many of them who say the same then it is a fashion thing.
There are points in this song that Doro sounds exactly like Geddy Lee
Woah, deja vu. Don't make me break out the Pat Benatar again.
"Girl Power" for me was something chirped by council estate rats who'd never heard of feminism, thought that standing up for perceived persecution on the basis of gender was "new and cool" and wanted to use the Spice Girls as an excuse to act belligerent to their boyfriend/***/male teachers. No, it's not "Girl Power," you're just being cretinous. Decent pop music though. And I'd be lying if I said I'd never masturbated to three of them.
"In real life" far away from the escapsim of porn, I'm somewhat of a feminist, and some of the attitudes that still prevail astound me sometimes (which I've encounted at a national management level for the company I used to work for, despite it frequently being in the top 10 of those "best companies to work for" polls), but when the teenage nitwit population of middle-class Britain started talking about "Girl Power" in the mid 90s, I thought "what the hell do you know about gender divide? Your biggest challenge in life so far has been revising for your GCSEs, and on that front I think you'll find it's the boys that need the help!"
So... yeah. "Girl Power" was for feminists that thought they were too cool to be call it feminism.
"Girl Power" for me was something chirped by council estate rats who'd never heard of feminism, thought that standing up for perceived persecution on the basis of gender was "new and cool" and wanted to use the Spice Girls as an excuse to act belligerent to their boyfriend/***/male teachers. No, it's not "Girl Power," you're just being cretinous. Decent pop music though. And I'd be lying if I said I'd never masturbated to three of them.
"In real life" far away from the escapsim of porn, I'm somewhat of a feminist, and some of the attitudes that still prevail astound me sometimes (which I've encounted at a national management level for the company I used to work for, despite it frequently being in the top 10 of those "best companies to work for" polls), but when the teenage nitwit population of middle-class Britain started talking about "Girl Power" in the mid 90s, I thought "what the hell do you know about gender divide? Your biggest challenge in life so far has been revising for your GCSEs, and on that front I think you'll find it's the boys that need the help!"
So... yeah. "Girl Power" was for feminists that thought they were too cool to be call it feminism.
There are many who say that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. Does that make Christianity a fashion thing? :dunno:
You're not wrong on a lot of points, but I also think you're being a bit uncharitable.
The Girl Power movement wasn't generally about feminists who thought they were too cool to be called feminists, usually they rejected the title because they saw it as malignant. And from the view of society they were more or less right. Keep in mind that the mainstream was vilifying feminism at this point, as it coincides with the invention of the term "feminazi" and the general slandering of the movement and women in general by certain popular parties. The term "feminist" had more or less become anathema, and anything associated with it was often dismissed and derided out of hand. So it's not surprising that people weren't eager to adopt the title, and the associated scorn.
For a time there "Girl Power" was a safe bastion for feminists, a way for them to express their beliefs without being discriminated against due to the general malaise associated with the word "feminist". I mean, you can argue that it's a bit cowardly, and that "safe" isn't exactly how the road to civil rights equality is often paved, and you'd be right. On the other hand that unsafe road also tends to paved with a lot of ***** and bodies (real and proverbial), so it's tough to cry foul :dunno:.
I think that religion and fashion can not be compared because fashion is superficial thing.
So you're saying the feminist movement is superficial? Because in the end that's what "Girl Power" evolved into; a subset of feminism.
What is girl power attitude?
Is it because they play rock´n´roll and not cute pop songs?
Is a feminism a superficial thing...if it is the same thing as hatred towards men and women behave like men then I said that it is superficial and naive matter.
They have clearly this "we are tough girls"-attitude and it is somehow comical.
In my view you can be yourself even if you play rock 'n 'roll music.
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You're in luck, since feminism isn't about the hatred of men, it's about striving for equality for women. Describing feminism as "hatred towards men" is like describing the Emancipation Proclamation as "injustice against white people".
It also doesn't involve women acting like men. In fact "Girl Power" was very much sex-positive and about retaining and affirming femininity.
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Girl power makes me think of the Spice Girls
Why is it comical?
Some people say that feminist want gender equality, other think it's the same thing as anger against men.
Anger towards men = Someone is trying to prevent a man from being what he really is.
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At last, the female response.
I think it is comical when someone tries to be what he/she not really are.
