Feminism and Diversity

I hear ya and been there. I really don't think you can be a girl/woman and have this not happen and it is completely infuriating. Unfortunately in our patriarchal society, men think they are entitled and women's existence is purely to be consumed by mainly white hetero men, but men in general.

Referenced in Forna's essay, is another essay that I remember reading in one of my Women's studies classes in college, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” – by Laura Mulvey, she takes a psychoanalytical look at how the unconsciousness of patriarchal society has structured film form -- men being "active" (lookers) and women being "passive" (to be seen and not heard). It changed my film/tv viewing experience and how we are always taught (even unconsciously) to identify with specifically the white male hetero experience (always told from his perspective).

The thing that I find heartening is that women are finally finding their voice to express their own narratives and that can have a transformational affect on society for the good, at least I hope.