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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Just wonderin', is all
Posted by Jill | 10:03 AM
I wonder why, in all the hoopla about how poor Hillary Clinton is being pushed out of the race because she's a poor defenseless fragile flower of a woman, there isn't a big feminist outcry about the Blogad for the finale of The Tudors that's running on all the big name blogs (you can see it at Digby's blog, for one). Because if there were ever a poster child for domestic violence, it's Henry VIII. Maybe it's just me, but this poster bothers me. It's the same "hot" image that's been running in ads the entire season, but the bodice-ripper-style photo of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry with his hand firmly on Natalie Dormer's throat, taken in conjunction with what we know happens to Anne Boleyn in this Sunday's season finale, seems kind of like B&D porn to me. Is this an image that progressive blogs ought to be carrying?

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Anonymous Anonymous said...
I think if a feminist blog, or anything with the label "feminist" firmly attached starts picking what it displays or says only by feminist ideology, you end up with a twisted view of reality. This sort of ideological cherry-picking was heavily engaged in by the Soviet Union...and the Bush Administration, tho' of course, from completely different "ideologies." Henry WAS an abusive monarch and husband. That is history; the sensationalism of it on a television show is now "entertainment" to some, shocking to others. If any woman narrows her grasp of the world for the some rigid idea of what appeals to feminine sensibilities, she is merely trading one set of chains for a newer set.
5/29/08, 10:59 AM  
Blogger missy said...
I've felt like someone has their hand on my throat every time I see that ad.
5/29/08, 11:35 AM  
Blogger LC Bat said...
Melissa over at Shakesville already let loose on the image... I think it was about a month ago? The blog is updated so often, though, that I'm having a hard time finding the particular post. Wait. Yep, here it is.

They talked about it at Feministing, too.
5/29/08, 11:41 AM  
Blogger Melina said...
dont tell me how it ends!!! oh, wait...
anyway...Oh who cares? its completely heavy handed, right? Could it be a joke? whatever it is I thought it was almost so heavy as to be campy. They surely arent serious, are they?
I can just see little boys across America strangling their little girl playmates now...
For god's sake, we're fighting for over lives here!!..and you know, RFK was assassinated in June!!...so , Im not to worried about a dramatic image for a cable show that is no less or more violent than the road runner cartoon, any old magazine, or well, Henry himself;-)


Tell you what, Id like to put my hands on Scotty McClellan's throat. and that has little to do with that image!
5/29/08, 8:15 PM  
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