Lolita's Fist

To all the people who know that Blade Runner is my favourite movie of all time. I was 19 when I saw this movie, and I was mindbound (like footbinding, see Mary Daly). The patriarchal narrative enveloped/s me. Even after 30 years of my own feminism. The patriarchy is insidious and systemic, and I have to work daily to find the nooks and crannies it lurks in. I was so in love with Harrison Ford. He was an embodiment of the men in the Mills & Boon I was reading. Craggy, bad-tempered, masculine. Ooh. And scifi was new to me. New on film to everyone. It was shiny, it was intellectual, it was engaging, it was Mills & Boon antidote. From when I was five (or that’s when I remember), I have been protesting the advances of men. I still did not see Sean Young protest. When I started to feel horny when I was young, I saw that women were NEVER allowed to want sex, NEVER ask for fingers in your vagina, NEVER ask for hands to touch your breasts, NEVER ask for a kiss, NEVER...

Delicious feminist analysis by Megan Garber. " I never bothered to question why it was Harry who met Sally, and not the other way around. I never wondered why it was Harry who changed so drastically over the course of the film, while Sally's primary evolution involved her hairstyle. I never paid much attention to all the hints the movie drops that Sally, from almost the beginning of her friendship with Harry, has been waiting for him to decide that, when it comes to her, he wants  the sex part to get in the way ." Source:  https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/07/when-harry-met-sally-and-the-high-maintenance-woman/594382/

IMDB's consistently top-ranked film - The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - makes an appearance as the US' best-rated film. https://www.vouchercloud.com/resources/every-countrys-best-movie

In the film Streisand's young self cuts her hair in the bathroom, hacking it off. They don't say so in the film, but it suggest she was trying to escape the attention of her predator stepfather. It suddenly occurred to me that I did the same sort of thing. I refused to wear clothes that DIDN'T have holes in. I shaved my hair off. It occurred to me that the reason I did this is to make myself unattractive to the predators hunting me. I started doing the holes-in-clothes thing when I was about eight. #Journal  #TheTotalShutdown 

🍒 Cat Stevens' song, "If you want to sing out". One of my favorite movies of all time. A musthave. "If you want to be me, be me. If you want to be you, be you. If you want to be free, be free." YouTube If you want to sing out, by Cat Stevens IMDB Harold and Maude (1971) Actors: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort Director: Hal Ashby