For this week, my interviewee told me about whether or not "feminist" is a bad word. She says that people are generally pretty sensitive to anything associated with the word. It's a sensitive issue, and the idea is that feminists are really sensitive and outspoken, which makes sense because they're trying to get the attention to get change. However, people seem to view it as irrational, rather than seeing its similarity to civil rights and equality movements. Instead of being seen as fighting for equality, they're perceived as fighting to make men the bad guys, which is why it's perceived that feminism is a bad word.
Last week she says she was doing an interview with her boyfriend and she says he was very ignorant because he hasn't been exposed to a lot of this. He was of the opinion that feminism was a bad thing just because that was the general concept. She argues that ignorance is what causes this misunderstanding, like the lack of people voting; they don't like change, so they don't keep up on what's important, they don't vote, and they don't pay attention. She says if you stop paying attention to these aspects, you fall back on the way things were; she argues that even if we got to the point where women and men were entirely equal, we would still have to maintain vigilance, because otherwise it will just fall to the same inequality in some similar or new form.
She says that it is possible that the pendulum could swing the other way, and that the people who don't like feminism probably fear that very thing.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/21/natalie-dormer-talks-hunger-games-feminism-and-why-game-of-thrones-needs-more-dick.htmlFor the article this week, I read a
Daily Beast interview of Natalie Dormer that discussed feminism as well as her roles in Mockingjay and Game of Thrones. Dormer says that one of the things she really likes about Mockingjay is that the film actually represents women, with Katniss as the protagonist and with District 13's President Coin's being female. The idea that President Coin's gender doesn't matter too much to the character is a positive thing, and shows that women are just as good as characters as men are, if given the opportunity to be. Dormer is glad that film industry has started to figure this out. That feminism is growing to be a bad word with younger people is something that she doesn't like, because she argues that feminism is about equality, not "a kind of militantism or a sense of female superiority."
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