Heteronormative patriarchy’s designated shelf life for cisgender women is the age at which we cease to be its walking incubators. And yet here is Nancy, a woman in her early 60s who not only wants to fuck but has planned--with time, money, and a "fuck-it" list--how she wants to.
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How often do films center a woman in her early 60s? Rarer still is the film that centres a woman in her early 60s who wants to fuck. Patriarchy’s Map of Life for us women 50+ delineates a Hiking Trail Into the Kingdom of Shriveling Up and Fading Away. feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-…
Wanting sex and expressing sexuality outside the tenets of heteronormativity: these are a chaos and liberation that threatens patriarchy, deeply.
There is power in expressing and insisting on desire, pleasure, and sex on our own terms.
There is power in expressing and insisting on desire, pleasure, and sex on our own terms.
This film also challenges women to consider they have wasted their lives doing what everyone else wanted them to do because doing what they wanted would have left them faint and nauseous with the power of it all. feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-…
What freedom would Nancy have had if she had not had her children?
It is like watching Evelyn in Everything Everywhere All At Once get a taste of options–the What If’s–available to her alter egos in other universes. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
It is like watching Evelyn in Everything Everywhere All At Once get a taste of options–the What If’s–available to her alter egos in other universes. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
We understand why women are denied a 3-D life, why their imagination is flattened out of daring to want any more than what they have.
Because we would want more, we would want different, we would want a multi-dimensional life & enough freedom to determine who we want to be.
Because we would want more, we would want different, we would want a multi-dimensional life & enough freedom to determine who we want to be.
“Bitch” and “cunt” are not the worst things you could call a woman. Selfish is. Knowing what you want and taking it is filed under “selfish” in patriarchy’s dictionary. And by the time we meet Nancy, she is a woman determined, finally, to be selfish. #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
What kind of selfish bitch regrets having children? Don’t ask me, I’m the selfish cunt who refused to have them in the first place. #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
feministgiant.com/p/unmothering?…
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And that is why films that center older women are important. They keep showing us women with options.
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And all of this is of course connected to abortion bans and is central to why #RoeVsWadeOverturned. Abortion bans are about controlling our desire and denying us bodily autonomy: to ensure that we are walking incubators for patriarchy
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