"Full Frontal Feminism" by Jessica Valenti is a satirical novel that focuses on the negative and positive lights shed toward feminist. She elucidates the stereotypes people place upon feminist and explains how everyone has some feminist characteristics. She uses facts and statistics that say women should be a certain way then shows how those same statistics contradict themselves. Valenti uses person experiences and facts to show her reader how culture,religion and society;are teaching them not to make their own decisions but to fall into the decisions their parent, role models,and leaders want them to make. Question1: Would Valenti's use of satire be offencive to those organizations she covered? Question2: How do the stereotypes Valenti covered relate to those people that don't consider themselves feminist? |
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Full Frontal Feminism chunk 2
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12/26/08
ReplyDeleteQuestion 1: Yes, the use of satire Jessica Valenti use would be offensive. Even though she used a sattire to lossen up the serious topic she still can affect the orginaztion. To those people in the orginazation their opinions matter. It's only human nature for people to be offensive despite any use of satire.
Question 2: It gives the non-feminist a new outlook appearance that Valenti covered in the novel.
Question 1: I think that Jessica Valenti's use of satire would be offensive only if people don't understand the point she is trying to make. I don't think she was trying to be offensive, she was just trying to get her point across.
ReplyDeleteQuestion 2: I think it relates to people who aren't feminist, because they're the ones who were doing the stereotypes, but maybe if they read upon themselves they'll want to be a feminist.
Question1: Would Valenti's use of satire be offencive to those organizations she covered?
ReplyDeleteAnswer1: her use of satire wouldn't be as offensive to those organizations as would be the topics that she was being satirical about. But then again, the way that Valenti writes about those organizations, it seems as if the people in charge are either not smart enough or not open-minded enough to calmly read the satirical parts of her book.
Question2: How do the stereotypes Valenti covered relate to those people that don't consider themselves feminist?
I believe that, more than simply relating to them, the mass majority of the stereotypes Valenti wrote about were about, or even targeted at people who don't consider themselves feminist. After all, Valenti used the whole first chapter to write about the fact that most people who should be feminist don't consider themselves to be so.