Media Exposure as Harmful Cultural Practice

Having worked on this project for nearly a year now, I have come to understand clearly how television and all media imagery functions as political patriarchal propaganda and have tried to demonstrate how this works.  I believe this project has been successful in its aims, which were to articulate the facets and mechanisms of the patriarchal propaganda machine (via “The Gears“) and to fill an existing gap in online publishing, where there exists plenty of liberal (non)analysis and no dedicated space for radical feminist analysis of media imagery.

But what does the future hold for a radical feminist media-critical project, once its author realizes that exposure to this propaganda itself, for any reason — even to critique it — is actually a harmful cultural practice that’s best avoided?

Scum-o-Rama (give us a chance. ffs.)

–image by FCM. Click on image to visit SOR.

The Emperor’s New Cotton Granny Pants (Cis Privilege)

“Cis Privilege” — Image by TENCGP. Click on image to visit TENCGP on Tumblr.

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Consent and victim-blaming are two sides of the same coin

–image by FCM. Click on image to visit Scum-o-rama.

MagicPoppy ([Description: a pretty young woman with long blond hair is dancing in front of a mirror in an open-fronted blouse. Her white toy poodle looks on.])

— image with caption by MagicPoppy. Click on image to visit MagicPoppy @ Tumblr.

Ensuring Fairness (Statistics — Sex of transitioner)

“Statistics — sex of transitioner”
– image by Ensuring Fairness. Click on image to visit that site.

Trans* are doing activism wrong. Srsly, they are.

A legitimate class-based discrimination analysis is 3-pronged, like this

What trans* activists do

When they aren’t busy doing this

Or…this