tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306902952143372957.post969497771974625575..comments2014-05-19T07:40:57.881-07:00Comments on "Leftist" Movie Reviews: Professionalism = Selling Your Soul: A Feminist Rant on "The Devil Wears Prada"AradhanaDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802782843897871626noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306902952143372957.post-22829476226629257862011-10-05T00:25:46.739-07:002011-10-05T00:25:46.739-07:00I agree with the feminist remarks, but I don't...I agree with the feminist remarks, but I don't think "be ambitious" is the moral lesson of the movie: andrea changes her mind when she realizes she was following Miranda's steps, she just have seen it doesn't worth. <br /><br />we can blame capitalism (oh yeah), miranda and andrea, but the most important thing is: people who gave their best (emily blunt and stanley tucci caracters) were treated like shit, so the modus operandi is not fair.<br /><br />I mean... have you ever seen ugly betty? I don't follow the whole serie, but I know she didnt want to work in fashion business too, she had to adapt herself too, but she made a huge effort to keep her principles and her job. <br /><br />she didn't get thin, she insisted to wear clothes she liked, she expressed her feelings about the Fashion Week, about a misoginy interviewed, and so on.<br /><br />frankly, she had a lot more things against her than andrea (she is latina, andrea white, she is fat, andrea not, she's considered ugly, andrea not)<br /><br />the role miranda wanted andrea act was just cruel... why should a secretary look like a model, forpitsake? andrea was not miserable, she had a good education, she could have got a smaller job in a healthier place to work.<br /><br />ps. sorry any english mistakes, i'm still learning your languagealicenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306902952143372957.post-43266698412305742742008-10-16T18:54:00.000-07:002008-10-16T18:54:00.000-07:00great blog, completely agree with all your points....great blog, completely agree with all your points.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306902952143372957.post-60110382348024806472008-04-26T12:12:00.000-07:002008-04-26T12:12:00.000-07:00completely agree with the comments -- this review ...completely agree with the comments -- this review was really infuriating and not leftist in the least. i'm not going visit this site again any time soon.<BR/><BR/>it did not problematize the class aspect of high fashion -- while making less than 2000 bucks a month in my late thirties (and i have a ph.d.), why in the world would i care about degenerate prada people <BR/>climbing up the class ladder and having fun? what the f*ck is liberating about solidarity between wealthy girls wearing $4000 bags while there are people living on the street in front of their office?<BR/><BR/>as a leftist and a feminist, i think there are more important things to achieve -- fully paid maternal leave, free health care, free kindergardens and many more shelters and free self-defense classes for battered women. that's just the start of the list. <BR/><BR/>plus the conventional, awful aesthetics of the women presented -- sorry, if i want a mildly progressive feminist funny movie, i'd rather see "real women have curves."<BR/><BR/>it's precisely for reasons like this that people like hillary and condi thrive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306902952143372957.post-33303036723923192762008-03-20T07:39:00.000-07:002008-03-20T07:39:00.000-07:00I actually agree with you, I think this review lac...I actually agree with you, I think this review lacks in a socialist/ solidarity critique of structured gender and hierarchical relations, i.e. the very foundations of gendered patriarchal relationships. <BR/><BR/>I think the review is a fairly liberal/postmodern feminist interpretation - one which is very devoid in structural change. <BR/><BR/>Though I agree that women are scrutinized far more in their careers when they 'act like men' - the reviewer hardly talks about the problems associated with it, as though those things are a given and 'okay' to begin with. <BR/><BR/>The whole problem with post-feminisms is that there is no critique of structurally embedded problems and it's 'okay' for some women to benefit from the downfall of other women - so it's completely devoid of class critiques.AradhanaDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15802782843897871626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306902952143372957.post-60691834059520975612008-03-19T06:02:00.000-07:002008-03-19T06:02:00.000-07:00If men have the right to alienate themselves from ...If men have the right to alienate themselves from feeling any compassion, solidarity and respect for others, in their ambition for power and social positioning (career) why shouldn't women have that right too?<BR/>Is that your point? <BR/>You call that feminist?<BR/>It would seem that you think what (most) men (are expected to) do is good, and should be aspired to by women as well.<BR/><BR/>However, feminism is not about an 'equal rights' demand in the abstract. Consider this: those rights that men have had, and exerted, are structural to their position of oppressors in the patriarchal system. Feminism is, in my view, about freeing ourselves (women or men) from the fixed gender roles attributed by the patriarchal system.<BR/>"If men can be violent and unscrupulous, then women should have that right too" is a most superficial understanding of feminism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com