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 I refuse to watch any more of those
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Im writing this because i have nothing else to occupy my time with, since i decided to stop watching featured movies which was my number one hobby. Why did u stop asks my husband who fears my endless hours of spare time would be filled by annoying him, well.... i guess im fed up with the image, message and ideology Hollywood has and portraits of women and on the other hand necessarily of men, ofcourse i could start with oldies (black and white) where every women would end up married to the perfect hero, her existence in the movie is only justifiable through the love she provides to the hero who's story the movie processes.
I Squeeze my memory trying to recall when was the last time i saw a movie about the life of a woman (real women ) and by that i don't mean Nichole kidman or Maddona looking killingly fabulous in high heels and a dress designed by (who ever is being payed the highest price these days to stitch to pieces of cloth together), fighting creatures that don't exist or better yet play the role of a beautiful young women struggling in a relation ship, usually ending with the romanticized idea of marriage were she will go on to live happily ever after as long as her knight is by her side.
Although women today make more that half the population of the world , 90% of them living under poverty in war torn areas, still film makers, book writers and the media insist on portraying the same image of women, never good enough to rise and play the leading role of their tormented lives, i sit here and try to imagine how many stories worth telling, stories that will help masses of other women stand up, overcome their shyness and say out loud 'NO' .
I like to believe its a vicious circle that every male has contributed to its cycle on any women he knows starting with Freud and his 6 stages or were they 8, of human development ? irrelevant since women seem to reach only early stages and fail to reach the higher stages most males do unless they were criminals and mass murders, which is realizing human rights ( the last stage ) quite strange since i haven't heard of a woman starting a war.
The motion picture i was watching which started this wave of feminism inside of me is called MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND ,any one who has seen superman before will get the hang of it , only this time the super hero is a women , who as the movie shows despite her huge powers is necrotic and emotional bomb waiting to explode, not in one seen does she use her powers to save an innocent soul or help the needy, instead she concentrates on harming her ex-boyfriend who is a defenseless mortal, after leaving her for no other reason than her uncontrolled emotional needs. observe the message given out about women
They can never help any other person even if they have great powers they still need to relay somehow on men ( here emotionally) and
Compare between what super man did to help and rescue the whole world with the risk of being killed while superwomen could easily ignore a call for help she hears with her super ears to have a warm romantic dinner at home with her boyfreind, and the list goes on forever. It is quite ironic if you apply this to real life were women endure gender discrimination starting from inside the family and then the community but still somehow they manage to study, work earn money, bring children into this world raise them , take care of the elderly and at some point or another in life be victims of male abuse, yet still wake up every day with hope in their hearts and the will to continue raising their children in male made rule societies not trying to change them out of the respect they have o their fathers , brothers and husbands.
To all of those women you are super women at least my super heroes if that counts
Raga .
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Re: I refuse to watch any more of those (Re: ragaa makkawi)
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العزيزة رجاء..
سلام وتحية ومرحب بيك إضافة راقية للمنبر..
الموضوع الذي طرحتيه مهم للغاية.. وهو نمطية دور المرأة في السينما.. وإن أخذنا أن السينما الحقيقية هي مرآة المجتمع، فهذا هو دورها للأسف في المجتمع بالرغم من: (
It is quite ironic if you apply this to real life were women endure gender discrimination starting from inside the family and then the community but still somehow they manage to study, work earn money, bring children into this world raise them , take care of the elderly and at some point or another in life be victims of male abuse, yet still wake up every day with hope in their hearts and the will to continue raising their children in male made rule societies not trying to change them out of the respect they have o their fathers , brothers and husbands.)
أتمنى أن تتحصلي على كي بورد عربي حتى تتمكني من إيصال فكرتك للكل.. وحتى تساهم الآراء في فتح إضاءات أخرى..
مرحب بيك تاني سميتي..
رجا
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Re: I refuse to watch any more of those (Re: ragaa makkawi)
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العزيزة رجاء..
سلام تاني.. (شكلو حيكون one two بيناتنا..)
تعرفي إنو مرات أنا ما بجيب الغلط على المجتمع أو الناس البتعامل المرأة بالشكل ده.. دي غلطة المرأة البتقبل إنها تتوضع في الحتة دي.
لو صدقت إنها أقل أو أضعف من الدور الممكن يلعبوا الرجل في الحياة أو السينما. لأنه في الحياة أثبتت نساء كتيرات مقدرتهن على سد خانة الأب حينما يغيب.. بموت أو هجرة أو طلاق.
أكيد حأرجع تاني..
وبالمناسبة قمت عملت ليك صورتك بالطريقة دي.. دون إن أستأذنك..
ضعي الرابط في مكان صورتك في البروفايل.. http://www.sudaneseonline.com/u/raga1.jpg
وحتتطلع ليك أحلى صورة 
وليك الود..
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Re: I refuse to watch any more of those (Re: ragaa makkawi)
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Dear Raga
first thanks for the picture, i guess its a tradition as old as time itself for women to help each other without the need of permission
( which is what makes womens bonding so fabulous) second i agree that women have helped to put themselves in inferior positions through their passiveness but still imagine how difficult it is for a large group of uneducated poor women worse still where crimes of the so alleged honour still exist.
I used to be one of those women although i had none of the above problems still i was too scared too row against the current, i obeyed silently for my mothers love because she believed my greatest benefit and happiness would be at the side of a man, bearing his children and serving him ever so faithfully where in the end i will rewarded with heaven
raga
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Re: I refuse to watch any more of those (Re: غباشي)
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1(There have been many rules, written and unwritten, that determined how women could look and act in Hollywood movies. Often these rules were what the audience--men and women--wanted, but nearly as often they were behind the times, failing to reflect social change or even give the audience what it was prepared to accept. There are three eras where women were positively portrayed on the silver screen from the mid-1920s to the 1950s. In | Complicated Women| tries to rehabilitate the pictures made in the freewheeling pre-Code era, i.e and early 1940s, when women, argues, matched or surpassed their male costars in wit. After the war come the Dark City Dames, of film noir.
2(Very interesting topic you raise. I myself watch hollywood movies. But I rarely view them in a sociological or gender biased way. These open hearted discussions on women\s role in society , by that I mean real life society perhaps in sudan, is whats most important.
In general terms women play a second role compared to Men.
You are born merely to serve your husband. And if these backward thinking men could have their way, you would be analfabets and sit at home and watch tv all day long.
Please remember that 50% of our country consists of women and they have a right to decide for their own future, and whom they marry with.
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Re: I refuse to watch any more of those (Re: ragaa makkawi)
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Dear Khalid
Thanks for your insight
when writing this piece i wished to clarify how men portrayed women and their capabilities ( best to match male fantasies) either beautiful house wives or fighting warriors defiting dragons and gods in ancient Greek tails, what im saying that there is much more to women and although they have proved it over the years male dominator's insist on looking the other way
movies are only one way to look at it , for example take a look at school texts where u would often find a phrase like this amna went t the market
and of course the list continues onforever
raga
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