Yeah, so it's funny, my daughter's a five foot one inch girlie girl
who I have seen snatch somebody up when they were trying to get in
the way of her money. (She didn't know I was watching. She was about
to punch a 250 pound dude in the throat).
We go to the movies together like twice every year, and it HAS to be
an action movie. This is a tradition we started when we went to see
"Kill Bill" together opening day. She saw "300" before me. Now, this
is a woman who has the complete "Sex and the City" series on DVD,
and has a fancy shoe collection. This ain't Peppermint Patty. She's
in touch with her complete self, and walks in that balance.
She's seen more Bond movies than her boyfriend. Watching the Bond
girls did something different for her. She takes the fashion cues
from the women and drives like 007. (My insurance premiums are
evidence of this)
She's also a DJ and in law school. I think girls need (and like) to
see empowering images just like we dudes do. It helps balance their
personalities.
On Apr 16, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Kelwyn wrote:
I was more intrigued by the feminist aspect of the article:
Yet don't assume that the reactions to Hit Girl will be anything
close to universal. Melissa Silverstein, who writes the feminist
blog Women and Hollywood(womenandhollywood.com), saw an advance
screening of "Kick-Ass" and said she was surprised by how torn she
felt.
"It was disturbing, but I was also empowered in the same moment,
and that doesn't happen very often," Silverstein said. "It just
kind of flew into the face of all expectations of how girls act on
screen, and that's what was so exciting and breathtaking. I
couldn't help but feel some semblance of excitement as a person
who's watched male comic book characters save the day time and time
again."
At the same time, though, she was "ambivalent about someone who
just kills people for the sake of killing," and the casual use of a
certain very vulgar anti-female epithet bothered her. "I saw all
the boys sitting around me loving that, and they loved it a little
too much."
Reminds me of one of the most enjoyable movie experiences I have
shared with my daughter (who was then 13 or 14). We watched Karyn
Kusama's "Girlfight" starring my personal fave, Michelle Rodrigues
(don't get me started on how pissed-off I was when I got the "Fast
and Furious" DVD and found out that even though she was fourth
billed, she was out of the movie almost before the opening
credits!) and afterwards watching my five foot ten-inch tall
daughter stand up straight and strong and form her hands into
fists, then turning them and jabbing the air in replication of
Rodriques' heavy bag technique.
~rave!
