"I have a daughter who’s 10 and we walked past a billboard the other day advertising a TV programme. There was a row of men in suits and a woman in a thong. My daughter said, “Why is it like that? It’s to sell it, isn’t it?” She knows that already. I said, “Yes, it’s a shame a young woman would want to be portrayed in that way,” and she said, “But it’s her choice, isn’t it? Nobody made her do that.” So how do you explain the Gramscian concept of hegemony to a 10 year old? If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?"
25th February 12
Monica Ali (via petitefeministe)
If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?
^ That just needed repeating.
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I needed this on my blog again… I’ve been thinking about it quite a lot lately, in regards to so many aspects of my life AND our society as a whole.
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