I'm a male anti-feminist (this does not mean I'm against equality between genders, but there are a lot of attributes about feminism itself which I'm against; but I won't go into it right now). However, I think that if feminists had to choose one film to promote their cause, I don't think they would go far wrong with Winter's Bone.
shareThe film doesn't even touch on feminism - none of the struggles the central character faces are due to gender to discrimination. She's tough - but no tougher than she has to be to care for two young kids whilst surrounded by meth addicts.
shareAn "anti-feminist"? What the hell is that?
In 2013 women still get paid less to do the same job. Women are still treated as inferior. So now is not the time to be an "anti-feminist". Just the fact you typed that nonsense indicates that you are probably a chauvinist or at worst a woman hating virgin.
Ha, true that! And likely to stay a virgin with that attitude. Myself included, I don't know any girls who would *beep* a man who isn't gung-ho for women's rights.
And the only reason why anyone is alive and typing responses, is because you came out of a vagina. So, get the *beep* over yourself.
Lol. More pathetic 'pity me' crying from the democrat fruitbats.
Where ever you find some humanitarian crusading for a 'right', you can bet its almost always some left-wing loon.
So far ive seen comparisons to the KKK, attacks on Palin and that other 'non liberal' republican woman...exactly what you would expect from these 'feminists', and you wonder why people spit when they hear that word.
You care not for women, only for 'liberal/left-wing' women and causes.
Pathetic.
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I'm not sure if you're up on your biology but it also took a human, male sperm (most likely injected from a penis, inserted into said vagina) for anyone to be alive. As much as it sounds like you would like it, Females can't reproduce asexually.
I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!
^To sum up this post, "if only I had a brain".
share"Feminism" as it's used by the general public is a very broad term. It has many, many components, as it has to do with a human's life (a complex experience) and almost all areas of society.
I haven't studied this film like an academic might, but having watched it somewhat casually, its most "feminist" aspect seems to be that the story acknowledges that women sometimes have to band together to get around control by men. Throughout the story, it's generally men who are in positions of power (in that they control the information) (i.e. "where is the heroine's father?"), and women have to slip Ree answers "on the down-low," as it were, to help her get what she wants.
The central male character, Teardrop, provides drama by moving from one camp to the other. He starts out as a violent, oppressive male (he almost snaps the girl's neck when she asks uncomfortable questions), but he gradually grows toward being part of the solution by helping her get what she wants.
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I wish feminists were like Ree.
shareCalling yourself an anti-feminist and then saying you're not against gender equality is an oxymoron.
shareFalse. A feminist is a person. You can be against those specific people for how they deal with things, but be all for gender quality. For instance, if I started calling myself a Treeist, you could hate me and be against me without being against trees and their right to be... unchopped.
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Sad story. You got a smoke?
You should learn what an oxymoron is.
Opposing a dogmatic ideology is not the same as opposing equality for all people (You don't need an ideology to support equality) .
I'm glad this thread died. Feminism for lyfe <3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwJRFClybmk&feature=kp
"Love is a force of nature"
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Modern day feminism in the West is not about equality. It is about female supremacy. Only people that are intellectually blind cannot see what the mainstream feminists of the west are fighting for.
I too am an anti-post modern feminist. Anyone that is for true equality and fairness of genders would be one.
And don't cite the dictionary meaning of that word as proof of what the feminist movement is about. A movement's objectives are defined by their actions, not by the dictionary meaning which was coined in early 1900s when the movement back then was really about equality.
Yes, Winter's Bone, True Grit, Zero Dark Thirty, Predestination, Doubt are some examples of movies with a mentally strong female protagonist. These kind of characters are pretty rare in Hollywood and I long for movies like these.
*5 second fart noise*
shareI think Winter's Bone is a pretty cool guy. eh hasn't yet a taste for meth and doesn't afraid of anything.
I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!
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