EARLY ACCESS: 2010s Pop Feminism: A Painful Look Back
Added 2023-09-17 20:44:08 +0000 UTCThe longest, most ambitious video I've ever made – a pretty comprehensive look back at a mass movement that promised to change the world, and then, well, didn't. I gave this one my all. I hope you get something out of it.
I'll be editing right down to the wire, so this version isn't final. Main thing is that it's missing about a quarter of its graphics, but generally it's very close to the version that'll go up on YouTube.
As a wise woman (my friend Sadie) once said, LET'S GOOO!!!!
Comments
painfully relatable, painfully
Sam
2023-09-30 20:56:37 +0000 UTCWhat a beautiful elegy
Bert Speelpenning
2023-09-19 00:15:56 +0000 UTCNebulous thoughts that entered my mind while watching this: 1. Me in 10th grade doing a presentation of feminism using stuff I had learned from pop feminism sites and asking if anyone in the room identified as a feminist and only my 2 friends and the substitute teacher raising their hands lol 2. That Ukranian feminist group from the 2010's called FEMEN? And also Pussy Riot? Idk just came back to me from dormant corners of my mind. 3. The way so many rich white women still use pop feminism platitudes to this day. Like how often they argue with each about not supporting one another's business ventures on The Real Housewives. 4. The way the #metoo rhetoric got flipped into "poor men are afraid to ask out women now" which now feels related to all those "male loneliness" posts we see recently. I hadn't really considered that a lot of the concerns of 2010's pop feminism were in some way addressed and changed by that movement but how that hasn't actually made things all that much better. I think this is probably the most impactful point you made for me personally. Especially as a girlie who was at the Women's March lol. I would say- I think some basic "girl power" feminism is probably a good place to start young girls with. Teach them the basics so they have tools to name everyday sexism they will most likely encounter. But, yeah, feminism needs to go deeper than that lol. Great video as always~
Erin Laura
2023-09-18 12:42:29 +0000 UTCoh, that is for sure valuable! i’ll have to look into that. thank you :)
Lily Alexandre
2023-09-18 12:08:49 +0000 UTCDo you want editing feedback? Ignore this if not. - overall volume was very low - during two quote sections, there's a spiral of shifting colors in the background. those shifting hues also affected small parts of the quoted speaker's face in the photo you added. i think it looked cool but it was also slightly distracting to see roxanne gay's nose turn blue. just bringing it up in case you didn't notice
kiki✨
2023-09-18 01:16:32 +0000 UTCThanks for researching, writing, and producing this video, it's rly good. I find myself sliding into political apathy and your voice as a writer is always a good antidote. Please keep doing what you're doing <3
kiki✨
2023-09-18 01:14:36 +0000 UTCI also participated in a local version of the Women’s March in 2017. A tepid defense I can offer is that large-scale protests like this, particular ones related to the anti-Muslim travel ban that came soon after, arguably helped motivate some judges and other officials to recognize the need to stop Trump from plowing ahead with everything he and his people were fumbling for. But I agree with the overall point you make that liberals (like me at the time) had no idea what to do because we’d always assumed we’d always live in a liberal world.
Alice
2023-09-18 00:54:27 +0000 UTCGreat video! I read Roxanne Gay’s book back when it came out, and all I can recall is her bit talking about safe spaces and trigger words. Amazing how much time was spent debating stuff that looks so trivial in retrospect.
Alice
2023-09-18 00:45:33 +0000 UTC
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