Published on 9 Mar 2016. A must watch.
Abdal Hakim Murad (Tim Winter) discusses contemporary gender confusion as promoted by the mass media: what exactly is a man, and what is a woman? For more see: http://www.nursari.com
Categories: Islam, Life in the West, Wisdom
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Great talk. Very good important for parents to see so they can raise their children appropriately.
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I can’t really say I 100% agree with him, to be honest. I don’t see how one female protagonist in one movie is going to confuse people–honestly, her being super-powered early is less of a “conspiracy” and more meh writing from a director who wanted to play everything safe. If I were to be honest, it seems that the problem is that while women are allowed more flexibility in how they express their femininity, men are still locked in the “you have to be a strong grr alpha male” mentality. Instead of trying to go to either extreme of either enforcing the “correct” gender norms or abolishing gender entirely, we should recognize that there is variance in how people actually are, and that your manhood and/or womanhood are not connected to acting in a stereotypical way. I find that this last line of thinking is where both religious conservatives and liberals really falter.
Honestly, if Tim Winter wanted to pick on a movie and criticize it for a Strong Female Character, Star Wars isn’t it. There are swaths of “Strong Female Characters” who act in such an over-the-top stereotypically masculine way because our society doesn’t really value femininity and pushes a really perverse masculinity as the new “default” that everyone should be (aka the action hero with a kill count that rivals Ted Bundy.)
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