Scribbles About Feminism

I used to watch this movie all the time, I haven't in quite a while... but watching it this time around I noticed that there are a lot of strong, feminist themes in the movie... and it kind of shows how women were treated in the 1920s and what has changed since then... and probably what has not. I'm mostly going to discuss the characters in this review... maybe I'll sort of compare this to other famous 1920s pop culture things later... Not really sure, just thinking out loud- let me know if you are interested. Anyway, onto the review! There are not many men in this story at all really. I've seen the play, and I think the play does a great job showing that, but I think that's an interesting choice to show a movie mainly about women. There aren't a lot of really positive characters either... Most of the women in the movie are murderers, most of the men have cheated on their significant others, or they're just kind of selfish. I think Richard Gere's portr...

Heyyy guys! Trying to get a little more back on track with this blog... There is a lot that I can talk about- a lot I want to talk about... but nothing has been inspiring me as of late... so yeah. Anyway... I remember hearing this song on the radio a few months ago and I really loved it because I thought it was something I need to hear every once and a while. It is such a very strong powerful song and it was written to end the impossible "Beauty Standards" and showing... you know what the standards are? Everyone is beautiful. It seems that people often say "There is beauty in everything" But I never seem to hear a lot of "There is beauty in EVERYONE!" And that is what we need to focus on. The name of the song always confuses me. "No Scars To Your Beautiful." I think it means, no matter what scars you have, what you've gone through in life, nothing can scar your beautiful. And messages like "You don't have to change a thing, the w...

Beauty and The Beast gets a lot of criticism... and I have to admit- I do agree with a lot of it. There are quite a few plot holes in the cartoon version... and after just seeing the Live Action version I feel like that explained a lot of those really well- which is why spoiler alert: I liked the Live Action version a little bit better. I'm not sure if I'll have a feminist review on that up on Thursday or not...I'll have a review of it on my other blog today though- so check that out- I release those at 11:30pm.  Anyway one thing that I think people have said about it is why is Gaston the villain? He was only trying to help the woman he loves from a beast that kidnapped her... why does he deserve the title of villain.  Consent. Consent is why he deserves the title of villain. No means no, Belle says "No, Gaston. I have no interest in being your wife. Let me read my book!" She and Gaston have NOTHING in common. Belle wants MORE than to cook and clean for her...

So this isn't a feminist post... this is a little appreciation about a woman that I admire and think is interesting. It's just kind of a fun fact that I wanted to give some perspective on... so I thought this would be a good blog to put here. I saw  this  video by my favorite youtuber, Justin Scarred and he is on vacation in Florida right now and he stopped by Walt Disney World's Contemporary resort. I haven't been to Disney World since 2009 and I don't think I've ever spent much time at the Contemporary, but he pointed out a mural by artist Mary Blair. Mary Blair is the same artist who designed the look of It's A Small World and she obviously painted a similar looking mural that is hanging in The Contemporary. In the Mural there is a 5 legged goat... which was not done by accident. Mary Blair included one Goat with 5 legs because she was following a principle in Islamic art that said no man made creation can be perfect, only God can be perfect. So she a...

Zootopia is a really great Disney movie with some great messages about accepting others... but I also think this is a good feminist movie also. Disney has a lot of strong female characters, especially as of recently... Disney does sort of underrepresent women in movies because of marketing. I swear... all The Force Awakens toys I saw were Kylo Ren... and that isn't okay... but anyway this is kind of cool that it isn't marketed as a girls movie or a boys movie but the main character and -SPOILERS- the villain in the story are women. Judy Hopps and Assistant Mayor Bellwether have a lot in common also. They are both "Meek Prey," they are both trying to succeed in a field that is mainly filled with male predators... they're both very ambitious, smart characters. They have similar dreams- they just get there in different ways and handle their mistakes differently... which defines them as a hero vs a villain. They don't really mention the difference between me...

So I did a post yesterday about international Woman's Day... but I thought that I would talk a little bit more about the movement of "A Day Without Women" and some of the activism going on around to support women and equality. So yesterday many women participated in a "day without women" movement where some woman took off from work- if they were able to- and they tried not to buy things if they could prevent it. There were a few Facebook posts I saw about supporting small female owned businesses and some places giving free coffee and discounts for woman's products or female authors. Some members of the cast of Hamilton donated a portion of their wages for the night to Dress for Success for Women's day.... and I'm sure they raised a lot of awareness for the charity in the process. They put in an insert in their playbill and they posted it all over their social media pages. Mandy Gonzalez (who currently plays Eliza in the broadway version) has 34k ...

So I wanted to post something on here for International Women's Day and I wanted to do a makeup look using woman owned brands (or that have a female founder) So... I thought I'd post it here instead of on my beauty blog. showing a picture in my glasses because Benefit did an ad that had a woman in glasses and it said "yuck" and I like how I look in glasses... so yeah!  Face  I don't actually have a primer from a Woman Owned Brand... most of the Urban Decay founders are women and I do have a makeup forever primer and the founder of that is also a woman... but for the most part I use Smashbox... so I actually improvised and used the It Cosmetics CC Cream as a primer. This feels a little sticky... but I kind of like it. For foundation I used the Fiona Stiles Illuminating Foundation Concentrate. I love Fiona Stiles, she does makeup for celebrities, Lilly Collins is one of her clients... but she also takes the time to respond to instagram posts and she actually...

So in March I think I'm going to try to watch a different movie every night... and if I think there's a feminist message in it- or if it was important to pop culture for women... I'll write about it! I'll start off with Amelie. I didn't really know what this movie was about... I just knew that it was in French, I thought it looked like a love story... and from the previews it looked beautiful and interesting. And I was right... kinda. What I thought was powerful about this movie from a feminist standpoint was that, even though it was a love story... that wasn't the focus of the movie at all. The focus was mostly on a strange girl that kept to herself most of the time and had a vivid imagination... even as an adult. Although she was quiet and didn't really interact with people... Amelie is quite a strong character. If she doesn't like someone, she'll do something about it right away and create a certain sense of justice. In contrast- if she does...

So this is kind of an interesting one... I haven't seen this play... but on Apple Music I found that they have the soundtrack to the original cast recording of The Great Comet of 1812- before it was on Broadway... So in 2013 it was off broadway and then now there is a Broadway musical currently starring Josh Groban as Pierre... I'm not sure who plays Natasha... but I'm mostly going to talk about the female characters in this and mainly Natasha played by the amazing Phillipa Soo, who has played many strong female roles since then including Eliza Hamilton in Hamilton and currently Amelie in the musical adaptation of Amelie! I haven't seen that movie yet... but it is on Netflix so I think that review will be coming soon! Anyway... this is going to be a little bit spoilery... I don't really see how I can go through this without spoiling it all. I haven't seen the broadway play... so this might be totally different when you see it on stage and they might have chang...