[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Boy story
- [I Blame The Patriarchy - Jill]
[This blog tends to be not particularly comprehensible to beginning "patriarchy blamers", but this particular article is a nice bridge from beginner to intermediate media analysis. She observes that Toy Story 3 passes Bechdel, and blockquotes an interview of the movie's creators. -L]
…one is struck by the empathy shown poor Ken by the Hollywood dudes. Through his degraded status as a “whipping boy” toy whose lot in life is to be “only” played with by little girls, Ken accrues pathos. …little girls are low prestige toy owners and confer shame upon any “male” toy forced to associate with them…
Another hilarious facet of Hollywood dudes’ remarks is their cogent assessment of the condition of existing solely as an accessory. It is obvious to them that relegating a sentient being to the role of one-dimensional second banana degrades that sentient being, [who] then logically suffer[s] psychological damage as a result…
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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