WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
MEN AREN’T OPPRESSED
MEN OWN THEIR BODIES
MEN CAN GO OUT WITH NO SHIRTS ON WITHOUT BEING ARRESTED
MEN CAN HAVE LOTS OF SEX WITHOUT BEING CALLED SLUTS
MEN AREN’T EXPECTED TO WEAR MAKEUP TO MAKE THEMSELVES MORE BEAUTIFUL FOR THE OPPOSITE SEX
IF A MAN IS UGLY, PEOPLE DEFEND HIM LIKE “HE’S REALLY NICE” BUT IF A WOMAN IS UGLY, SHE’S DEEMED WORTHLESS
ACTUAL PEOPLE SAY ACTUAL THINGS LIKE “ITS OKAY FOR MEN TO BE FAT BUT NOT FOR WOMEN”
PEOPLE CONTINUE TO OBJECTIFY WOMEN IN MUSIC AND IN FILM, ESPECIALLY WOC
WHEN A WOMAN HAS A STRONG OPINION ABOUT SOMETHING, PEOPLE ASK HER IF SHE’S ON HER PERIOD
PHRASES SUCH AS “DON’T BE SUCH A GIRL” OR “DON’T BE SUCH A PUSSY” EXIST AND ARE WIDELY USED, AS IF WOMEN ARE WEAK AND BEING LIKENED TO ONE IS THE WORST THINGS EVER
GIRLS AT SCHOOLS ARE FORCED TO DRESS IN WAYS WHICH WON’T DISTRACT THE BOYS AND MALE TEACHERS.
WOMEN ARE TAUGHT HOW NOT TO GET RAPED. MEN ARE NOT TAUGHT TO NOT RAPE.
THERE IS STILL A WAGE GAP. MEN HAVE THE ADVANTAGE. OBVIOUSLY.
PEOPLE ARE STILL ARGUING OVER WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. MANY WOMEN HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO GET THEIR HUSBAND’S PERMISSION TO HAVE THEIR TUBES TIED. IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT WOMEN FACE. THEY ARE PREDOMINANTLY WOMEN BEING FORCED/EXPECTED TO DO THINGS TO PLEASE/CONVENIENCE MEN.
THIS BARELY SCRAPES THE SURFACE.
PLEASE, PLEASE GO AWAY AND DO SOME RESEARCH ON WHAT FEMINISM ACTUALLY IS.
alternatively, you could go sit with all the MRAs and continue being ignorant as fuck.
fighting for men’s rights is like fighting for the rights of able bodied people. unnecessary, offensive, ignorant; and just plain bloody stupid.
Sigur Rós ‘Valtari’ Mystery Film Experiment: Ég anda by Tatyana Zvanskaya
Producer: Victor Ermakov
Director: Tatyana Zvanskaya
First Assistant Director: Valeria Sosnovshchenko
Director of Photography: Aleksandr Kotenko
Editor & Colorist: Tatyana Zvanskaya
CG artist: Igor Isaev
Cast: Anastasia Zhidkova, Yana Tarabanko
Location: MONOLOG studio
Special thanks to Aleksandr Tsyganok, Sergey Kosyakov, Ivan Stepanov, Mary Kuzmenkova and Katya Fedotova.
Review by Eric Stashak
Director Tatyana Zvanskaya’s film “Dreams of Nature” is a crisp and beautifully rendered version of Plato’s famous Allegory of the Cave, set to the music of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Ros, purveyors of the finest spacey-dream-music imaginable. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, a man spends his whole life chained to a rock in a cave, and seeing shadows of real things projected onto the wall, mistakes those shadows for real things, until he steps outside and sees the true nature of things in the sun of wisdom. A familiarity of the Allegory is crucial for understanding the video: the dazzlingly gorgeous Albino actress Anastasia Zhidkova spends the build-up to the song among pinecones, scattered books, and bits of trees, and only when the song is reaching its climax does she run outside to the world of real objects. This world is bright and hazy, due in part to the overwhelming nature of things seen in sun after only seeing them indoors. Zvanskaya’s film takes a moving idea and makes it gorgeous in solid blues and icy greys.