Scribbles About Feminism

I feel like this is going to be an ongoing series of why I'm pissed off at the Patriarchy... I feel like there's good reason to be. Especially when its like "Ohhh feminism is a bad word?" Seriously? I'm a real snowflake for wanting to be treated equally I guess... sorry. My mistake I'll go back to the kitchen... actually maybe I will go to the kitchen we have candy... jk OKAY FOCUS! Lol... so  this brilliant man  decided he was a chiropractor with no vagina... so he was the clear authority on creating products for feminine hygiene... and decided "Hey! Let's make a lipstick to glue a woman's labia shut when she has her period so that she's not disgusting anymore!" No... no... NO! So from this article we see the ad. It says "You know how your  lips stick together when they're dry and you can separate them and its kind of fun." Like... really? Is that really that fun? That's what this guy thinks fun is? He needs to go...

So this is one of my favorite songs from Lady Gaga's Joanne. It might not be my absolute favorite right now after listening to the cd a few times... but it is the song that I initially really loved from the CD. I think Gaga and Florence have really great voices, both very unique and they just sound really really nice together. Plus it's awesome because it has such a nice feminist message... here are some of the lyrics I find the best. "Hey Girl, Hey girl. We can make it easy if we lift each other. Hey girl, hey girl. We don't have to keep one-in-up one another." It's such a simple thing to think of... but such a hard thing to actually DO! I'm guilty of trying to one-up people all the time... and it's mostly because I think everyone is trying to one-up me. For the most part... people probably are trying to do that... but that doesn't mean I have to give in. It's just kind of bringing me to an ugly level and I don't need to do that. I can...

Today I woke up on the wrong side of the bed... which means I basically woke up and the news was on and I don't like what's going on in the world that much... anyway I also have been seeing a lot of criticism of Beyonce's Grammy performance... and I get that people don't like it... but I feel like people aren't understanding how art works... so I'm going to explain that a little bit too as why I'm a little angry at the controversy surrounding it. I thought the performance was really good! The song was good, I like Beyonce's music. I thought the idea of looking like your mother is something pretty powerful that women can relate to. Blu Ivy looks a lot like Jay Z more than Beyonce. Beyonce's father has very dark skin and her mother has lighter skin... that's probably hard to deal with growing up... and not even speculating or anything...  but looking like your parents is something people talk about. I thought the imagery was really pretty. There ...

Here's the more negative thing that happened at the Superbowl this year... Lady Gaga performed the Superbowl this year and she wore typical outfits that every dancer would wear. They showed her stomach and she's a very fit woman... she works out like all the time and is in very good shape... but she's still a human and has a stomach. I can't even say she has flab or a little pudge... she looked fantastic... but somehow people were saying she was too fat to dress like that... here's how she dressed. I'm not sure what exactly people are seeing here as "fat." It's totally TOTALLY baffling to me. Men are allowed to go around shirtless... and they have more of a comfortability doing that. Not that they aren't body shamed as well or if they feel totally insecure or not... but there are lots of times when men do yard work like mowing the lawn or something and it's hot so they take their shirt off... men do this no matter what their body look...

Hello! This week I have some Super Bowl-related posts... so I'm a little bit late... but it honestly took me some time to think about how I wanted to sort of address these topics! So... yeah! It was really pretty awesome that they got three of the original cast members from Hamilton to sing America the Beautiful for Superbowl 51. Phillipa Soo,(tony winner) Renee Elise Goldsberry, and Jasmine Cephas Jones sang the very powerful song "The Schuyler Sisters" in the play Hamilton. They were the only 3 female characters in the main cast of Hamilton and they played the 3 most important women in Alexander's life. Sure, Peggy Schuyler wasn't depicted all that much in the musical... Cephas Jones also played Maria Reynolds... more info about the parallels between Eliza and Maria Reynolds right  here ! Anyway I think it was cool that the Superbowl put them in the show in the first place... I don't think I've ever seen 3 broadway stars performing at the Superbowl.....

I saw Hamilton last month and it was absolutely INCREDIBLE! I know there's a ton of hype to it right now... but trust me- it FAR exceeded the hype! I absolutely loved it! There are spoilers to some key visuals to the show  One of the best things about the musical was the way that it portrayed women in history. There are lots of women in history... but they're very underrepresented. History remembers Alexander Hamilton, but we don't remember Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and all that she did for America also... this musical really shows everything that she did for America also.  If you've listened to the soundtrack till the very last song, you know how she pretty much dedicated her life to preserving her husband Alexander's legacy after he died. She made sure that his story was told, that his friends that fought by his side were remembered, she raised funds for the Washington Monument and established the first private orphanage in New York City. Eliza had what A...

So there wasn't much feminist-y news that I wanted to talk about... so I'm going to do a couple more reviews. First off... I think it's awesome that there are so many female driven comedies now. 2 debuted just this week: Powerless on NBC and the darker comedy The Santa Clarita Diet on Netflix. Powerless Let's start off with Powerless because I think that's kind of important. I'm going to do a review about the episode itself on my Scribbles About Life blog sometime soon... and I think I'll even do a tie in on my beauty blog too because I loved the makeup Vanessa Hudgens had on in the episode... but moving on. Anyway, I thought they did a really good job showing women in charge. The super hero at the beginning of the show was a woman, there were lots of women working at Wayne on inventions, and the Vanessa Hudgens character, Emily, was hired as the boss. I think that's pretty cool because when I was growing up women weren't really in super hero ...

So... this is kind of different... but I wanted to just sort of go over some shows that I think reflect feminism in a positive way... and one that I kind of have a critique of. There are some spoilers! This Is Us... Spoilers!  I love this show! And the women on it are very strong and interesting. I really like Kate, she is played by Chrissy Metz, who is a gorgeous actress that is overweight and it shows her struggles with her weight as a kid and as an adult... and I just think they did it in a really good way. The first episode shows us Kate on her birthday and she's written notes all over everything saying "Don't eat this" and things like that and she gets on a scale and she's very emotional over everything... but at the same time it doesn't really define her by her weight. She's also very sassy and flirty when she meets the man that she ends up dating... and she's close to her brother and she's his main support system... their bond is really b...