Feminist Fred

Thanks for reading. In a few short days I’ll be shutting down my site, which is mostly a locus for the worst kinds of spam imaginable. If there were only some way to turn off the tide of filth that floods my inbox as a result of this blog, I wouldn’t bother taking it down, but would just leave it here, inactive. Again, thanks for giving me the precious gift of your attention all this time.

Just a short note to celebrate TCM paying tribute to Kay Francis on Thursdays all next month. I love Kay Francis. She often played strong women, had an unconventional beauty, and was a top box-office draw at Warner Brothers for most of the 1930s. Watching her pre-code movies reveals a Hollywood that catered to what women thought about and felt, even if they did mostly end with the woman in her place where she belongs. Some of the Kay Francis movies I’ve seen, like Stranded (1935), actually have Kay not submitting to the man in the end, but actually show him admitting what a fool he’s been all along, something that must have thrilled her fans.

Twisty Faster nails some hard truths about Sex-Positive Feminism. She also linked to a blog called Pervocracy where the young woman writes posts detailing her sexual pleasures, which don’t sound too pleasurable to me.

Between the two of them you should get a good idea about what the rift might be between two women who both are basically feminists with different ways of dealing with our hypersexualized world.

Age makes a huge and terrible difference in how you see oppression.