{"id":134876,"date":"2015-09-24T18:41:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T18:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/09\/24\/feminist-criticism-isnt-about-ripping-something\/"},"modified":"2015-09-24T18:41:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T18:41:54","slug":"feminist-criticism-isnt-about-ripping-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/09\/24\/feminist-criticism-isnt-about-ripping-something\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Feminist criticism isn\u2019t about ripping something to shreds or making others feel guilty for liking it. It\u2019s simply about pointing out a specific creative weakness and then taking that a step further to explain the real-world social ramifications of that weakness, all in the hopes of dissuading future filmmakers from making the same mistake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/if-you-return-jedi-hate-ewoks-you-understand-femin-224765\" target=\"_blank\">If you like Return Of The Jedi but hate the Ewoks, you understand feminist criticism \u00b7 For Our Consideration \u00b7 The A.V. Club<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Miri!\u201d you might protest. \u201cThis article is wrong because some feminists do rip things to shreds and claim that I\u2019m a bad person if I enjoy those things!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell!\u201d I might respond. \u201cI disagree with those people, but I didn\u2019t birth them and therefore am not responsible for their actions and opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/wellroundedcharacter.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">wellroundedcharacter<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feminist criticism isn\u2019t about ripping something to shreds or making others feel guilty for liking it. It\u2019s simply about pointing out a specific creative weakness and then taking that a step further to explain the real-world social ramifications of that weakness, all in the hopes of dissuading future filmmakers from making the same mistake. If &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/09\/24\/feminist-criticism-isnt-about-ripping-something\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[208,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}