Aine D

And because of the rule where we have to represent both sides here is a lovely girl who thinks that women shouldn’t be allowed in politics and should just use men and live at home with their 6 children… Oh dear.

Thanks to Laura again for this!

Myself and Laura were rather bored and we decided to watch some of the feminist frequency videos. I have to say that I hadn’t noticed some of the things which she highlighted and they’re actually really interesting!
I had to idea what a Trope was until today and thankfully she explains what it is at the start of the video!
This video in particular really shocked me because I never noticed how much it happens!
This vlog is entitled The Mystical pregnancy. It basically shows that in a lot of our favourite sci fi tv shows (true blood included) tend to get at least one female character pregnant at some stage and usually it’s a forced pregnancy with a demon!
It sounds bizarre right?
It really really is.
Twilight is a perfect popular example. I THANKFULLY haven’t seen the most recent twilight but apparently the baby feeds off her and tries to kill her.
The point she makes is that this isn’t sexism in it’s normal sense but it is on a biological level. Pregnancy is a really normal thing, we are all living proof of that and yet a lot of popular TV shows actually demonise it.
They tend to do something weird like have an alien forcibly impregnate one of the only main female characters.

I had never noticed or even thought of this before but it’s actually genuinely weird that a lot of television shows use it as a sort of weapon. Pregnancy is pregnancy!
To put it bluntly ”when a man and woman love each other very much, they give each other a special hug” or whatever the feck the ladybird books say.

I have a good feeling that if anyone I know gets pregnant soon they won’t be carrying the anti christ or an alien didn’t get them pregnant. And God definitely didn’t do it!

Thanks to Laura for linking this on her facebook!

I really have to recommend that people watch this one minute video about the visual onslaught that girls are faced with ever day thanks to the ”beauty industry”.
We all start off life not giving a fuck! Covered in chocolate and rolling on the grass and just having a good time! It doesn’t take long before media influences how we perceive ourselves and others around us.
I know girls who can’t go into town without tan or lashes or nails or bla bla bla. I know girls who’ve developed disorders and have had bad body images and WHY?
What is this constant obsession with self improvement?
I’m not preaching here, I too have this stuck in my head. I have days when I look in the mirror and think shit, pass the foundation I look like a ghost.
And on a weekly basis I think ”I should really tone up”.
I also have a weird thing about one of my hips being smaller than the other, It drives me mad and I don’t know why it does.
Every girl is insecure. No matter what they say or how confident they are, every girl has something they want to change or improve and then these ads come along saying ”Hey, you know the way you’re pale? Well why don’t you cover yourself in a layer of orange and look like you drank an unhealthy amount of Fanta!”
Or more sinisterly ”Hey you see that nose you have there? Well it’s too big, you should get a new one sown on! Also you should get fake breasts that look like melons and probably cause you a lot of pain”
And Girls and women see them and start to question themselves because the girl in the Ad has a flatter stomach, better skin, bigger boobs or whatever it is.

As I am typing this an Ad for ”NO, NO” is on the television and some inept woman is telling me how to be smoother and how it’s great because a stranger will no longer have to wax me … It’s slightly bizarre to be honest!

I haven’t updated this in so long, I’ve just been hopelessly busy! Here’s a behind the scenes video from a recent shoot with Dstudios and Donna Morris MUA