Why You Should Love Marina and the Diamonds

Why To Love Marina

 She's amazingly talented. She has an amazing voice that never sounds auto-tuned. Her voice adds character to the songs she sings and makes them enjoyable. She also writes all of her songs and plays the piano when she performs acoustically.

 Her songs themselves are awesome. Her songs vary from lighthearted and feminine  to dark.

She's a feminist. Her feminine style and songs are often geared toward feminine issues. Her song "Sex Yeah" talks about the sexualization of the media and women in the media throughout history. (You should give it a listen)

 Her second album "Electra Heart" focused on womanly archetypes: Housewife, Beauty Queen, Home wrecker, Idle teen. She celebrates each archetype in the songs of that album.

Overall she is a good role model who owns who she is and encourages women to be strong and be who you are. She doesn't put down women who are 'dependent' on men or who like to serve them. She encourages women to own their sexuality and doesn't shame anyone. She's great.

Eastern and Western Feminism

Western Feminism is something that is local to us. Issues in the media and things such as dress codes and unequal pay are common ideals in western Feminism.

Eastern Feminism involves matters outside of our country. Matters involving female genital mutilation, strict oppression, and lack of education for women are issues that continue to plague a large region of the world.

Feminism differs depending upon the culture and general religion in an area. In America, many people fight on behalf of "white feminism" White feminism is creating an issue because feminism should be open to everyone but women of color and transgender women are often excluded from the mix.

In areas such as the middle east and some areas of Africa still practice the beliefs that women are inferior and their only jobs are to cook, clean, and produce children. Sure both Western and Eastern feminism is important, but we need to focus on the women who are losing their lives fighting for their rights to education.

Meninism

Meninism seems to be a new fad. Meninism is an online trend of men " fighting for their rights" against women in society. A lot of their complaints surround topic such as friend-zoning, slut shaming, unrealistic expectations, and the "annoying habits" of girls.

Whether you are a feminist or not,  the post on the leninist twitter accounts are insanely offensive and are literally perfect reasons to hate men. But then again, feminism isn't about hating men. Misandry is hating men which differs from feminism. Many meninists and anti-feminists argue that they don't approve of feminism because they do not hate men. Feminism is a concept that promotes equality of the genders and not simply the power of women over men doing whatever they want.

But back to meninism, it is a principle that promotes the misogyny that is geared towards women. Some of the things said on these counts goes as far as to literally target individual women and make fun of them for their appearance which is dumb and mean.

In the Media

A common theme that has been apparent in the media for decades is pinning women against each other. Columns that read "who wore it best?" are just minor comparisons of women.  When women's talents are compared is when it gets serious.

Women in the industry who have never even met before are pinned against each other. For example, Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande both have very similar pitch voices and are often compared to one another. This is a common trend that we never see amongst men in the media.

The media itself has a great influence on people's lives and view on the world and can easily persuade the beliefs of a person. The media objectifies women and often uses them as props and objects to sell products and ideas, but rarely portrays who they actually are

Photoshop is often a culprit in the crime of false advertising and self-esteem issues amongst the youth girl population. Many men argue that false expectation of men in the media are also given, but I sort of agree. Men are expected to be manly or whatever but if they aren't it's not a big deal. Men are not objectified or are over sexualized  in society which is where the sexism shows

Responses

Many people have ways to handle awkward situations. i don't really know where this is going but here is a story I heard: 

Last week there was a Game Night at St.John's Prep. At this event a group of people were playing "Heads Up" (I'm just gonna assume that you know what it is). One boy in the group held up the card "Vacuum cleaning" and one of the boys in the group yelled the hint "Woman do this!" at the top of his lungs. Everyone in the room went silent because they all knew that what he did. 

I agree that it was offensive but some girls found it hilarious which was really surprising and i don't understand  why 

Feminazis

Lately I've been hearing and reading lots of things that are basically just people complaining about feminist rants. My blog is literally called femme rantz and consists mainly of feminist rants, but I must say, sometimes rants can be aggravating. There is a time and place for feminist rants and it's  not always everywhere. Recently a friend of mine had been telling me about how much she hated to hear feminists complain, but while being on a blog similar to mine, she came to the conclusion that these rants were very necessary. Some issues are too big to overlook and it is okay to simply say you don't agree with it but going on insane rants that leave you out of breath may not be necessary. 
Boys on the other hand suck. A lot of them are bitter about feminist rants and it's stupid and they show ild grow up and learn what an opinion is and how to respect one (and also how to respect women) BOOM I'm done 

Viral Videos

Recently there have been a series of videos that have surfaced the internet and gone viral. The videos mostly surround young women who put themselves out there in an attempt to see male reactions. One of the videos that has had the most lively response, is a video in which a woman walks down the streets of New York City and it cat-called repeatedly, but she does not respond. Many people had positive and negative responses to this video. Some people say she was being rude by not responding to the men that yelled to her, others say that the video was an entirely realistic portrayal of what it is like to be constantly cat-called.

Recently a video went up from CNN of an interview with people who took two opposing stances on the video. One side was a man, the other was a woman. Now, the man said some things that are so insanely stupid that I’m going to have to warn you:

 Watch the videos   here and here.

Another video that has recently made headlines, is a video of a young woman pretending to be drunk in public.

The results of this video are equally horrible

here