Sumire_hitsugi wrote:
^Yes! I'm a Ghibli fan, so I usually get their DVD's.
I like both also.
... you mean, you LOVE Howl's Moving Castle.
The book didn't really do anything for me and I've actually forgotten most of it. I guess I just have the movie version in my head and I'll always be blown away by it. It's definitely not my same experience when I saw Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame and then read the book, in that case I love them both!
*eternally jealous of Sophie*
I finished with In An Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence (200
over the weekend and it was pretty awesome.
http://www.amazon.com/Abusive-State-Neo ... 822342391/
Being harpooned is only a woman's problem.
It wasn't even complicated to read, it's not that long, and it's something people should pick up if they want to learn anything about domestic violence and rape.
Obviously putting batterers in jail isn't doing anything on a deeper, cultural level (studies show their behavior barely changes before and after jail and/or government treatment), and the book highlights some possible solutions.
Same thing going on with the sexual harassment rates, they actually haven't gone down, so we need a different solution other than desexualizing the workplace. This stuff is so... ugh, sometimes
But I really like the examination of famous rape trials and I loved reading the prosecutor's strategies (that sent innocent boys to jail) and interviews with battered women on how they were treated by the government/therapy.
Anyways, the fem movement had to compromise a lot by getting help from the state, there are so many unintended consequences like that dual-arrest, but I'm not sure they could have gotten as far as they did without state intervention. Oh the dilemma~ /
I donno what I'm going to read over the break for fun! XD Hmmmm~ Maybe something Virginia Woolf-related... Something I can finish in my little week break ;_;