10 Things I Hate About You
By: Voicing Freedom
Tags: Women, Feminism, Cinema, Moral, 10 Things

A lustrous assessment of the 1999 rendition of “Taming Of The Shrew” for young people. I have said this for many years Kat was definitely a character after my own heart as I said many years ago now (probably 9 or even 10 and several times over the years to less than savory types poking around) “I am the shrew you can’t tame me (in the sense of change me) or pull anything over on me. I’ve seen it all, heard it all, and even some that hasn’t been heard of yet…get past it.” Of course the ferocity of it does shift a bit the more you grow up, the more life experience you encounter but the core foundation remains. Women like myself as I’ve spoke of many times stem from reputable warrior cultures so it’s already hereditary. Whom of which actually have a brain, can think and do for ourselves, know how to use our brains and stand very firm in who we are always have been. We don’t need anyone saving us or feeling sorry for us about anything. lol We’re our own sheros in the very real sense. Besides we’ve seen it all, heard it all, and or encountered it all. Matter of fact a elder from my Performing Academy days bumped into a sibling of mine about a year ago now. Upon asking what I was up to in life my sibling of course responded. The individual without missing a beat replied “That sounds like her and does not surprise me at all.” lol

This was among the music I listened to as a kid…

Hearing songs like it in 2020 you can’t help but think “Sure couldn’t get away with releasing a song like that now” …even though there is a million times more graphic and somehow acceptable to the public just on the sexualized side of things that honestly doesn’t have a great deal of wit or artistic value to it, it’s just there and pretty basic typically these days. However if a song like this were out now there probably be all kinds of complaints from snowflakes and the like about “promoting violence” and whatever other soft stupidity. HOWEVER as George Carlin once said even 20 years ago people are way too overly sensitive now about ridiculous things IE soft language, sensibilities or lack thereof but yet things that are really pressing like the fact even with awareness the last 20 years over 200 million Girls annually ranging from newborn to 18 years old are forcibly mutilated while fully conscious (Female Genital Mutilation) that means every 20 seconds this is happening to a girl somewhere in the world.

Vimeo

OR the fact Girls and Women fall into the equally horrific criminal enterprise of being sex trafficking (with Girls/Women of color being the majority of those victimized at 75% to 85 %), OR perhaps the fact more Girls and Women have been murdered as a result of Gender Based Violence and Femicide than all the lives lost in all the wars in the past 1/2 century at least again most being of color - and next to no one says anything about it.

PBS NewsHour PBS Corporate Communications

TED Talks

I’ve posted this a few times over the years but it’s something that still isn’t being heard enough. Therefore I’m just going to let that sit and depart as the moral of the story has been once again made. lol