New Zealand panics about immigration while making it economically impossible for working people to have kids. Erica Stanford’s comments touched a nerve because nobody wants to admit the system is broken.
We should usher Real Social Dynamics in with a warm welcoming pussy riot.
We live in a culture that endlessly blames women for other people’s violence and violations against them. We live in a culture that fears a women’s sexuality, but teaches us it is the only real currency of value.
Clinton is being held up by many social commentators as some kind of vision of ‘female empowerment’ – after all, she has smashed glass ceiling after glass ceiling, and she is a proud self-declared feminist. Hell, maybe she is even a ‘feminist icon’.
Pitt’s cover girl image on the front of a glossy magazine, usually reserved for ridiculing famous women’s bodies or idealising them, will challenge beauty standards, everywhere.
The last few months have been particularly bad for the shaming and policing of women’s bodies in the media, both in New Zealand and globally.
