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“In such a culture of anti-feminism or "family values," as its supporters proclaimed, women remained shielded from the harder decisions of life and were allowed to be morally passive in times of public crisis. Equality thus meant more than just a fair wage. It meant choice, which is, of course, what feminism was supposed to champion. But southern white culture depended on political monopolies, hierarchy, and social control. Choice was kryptonite.

In the "Grand Bargain" of southern white womanhood, oppression is coded as privilege, whether experienced or aspirational. Southern white women are often still portrayed as polite and beautiful and charming, and they are defined in opposition to feminists, who are denounced as overly ambitious, greedy, manipulative, and untrustworthy. That sacred goodness associated with southern white womanhood renders southern white women ill-suited for the rough terrain of political life, or so the story goes, narrated time and again by men and women justifying and promoting "The Not-So-New Southern Sexism”. Yet southern white women who embrace this ideology can rally for "family values" because those values are patriarchal or traditional or biblical and because those values are all southern. The Republican establishment took notice of this energy and slogan quickly, politicizing abortion and gay rights, both of which they associated with feminism, and recycling the anti–big government rhetoric aimed at halting the federal enforcement of African American rights and applying it to the federal enforcement clauses included in the ERA. "As the new racism (mostly) replaced the old in politics” historian Kiera V. Williams has noted, "sexism ascended." By the 1978 midterm elections, which saw victories for a new cohort of southern, white, male Republicans such as Thad Cochran in Mississippi and Newt Gingrich in Georgia,47 the Long Southern Strategy seemed to be making a comeback. Two years later, after forty years of supporting some version of the ERA, the GOP dropped it from their 1980 platform. At the fork in the road, they turned right again.”

–Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields, The Long Southern Strategy p. 15

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“This southern white way of life, however, is not based solely on white superiority. Rather, it is best viewed as a triptych with religious fundamentalism and patriarchy standing as separate hinged panels that can be folded inward--bent to cover or reinforce white supremacy throughout much of the region's history. The stereotype of southern white womanhood, for example, by which delicate, sacred white women of privilege need constant protection from black males, was constructed and maintained to justify everything from slavery, to lynchings, to segregation. It was a red herring from its inception, promoted to cast white su-premacy as chivalry while relegating southern white women to a distant pedestal where they could be seen and not heard. This two-for-one deal criminalized black men while silencing white women and kept southern white male power unchallenged. Any threat to such authority by African Americans could be met with swift violence. Southern white women, on the other hand, needed cultural reinforcement of their "special" status as the fairer of the sexes, or so they were taught from childhood via countless Sunday sermons where patriarchy came wrapped in scripture. As a result, the cult of southern white womanhood requires women to participate in misogyny—or at least in the way that philosopher Kate Manne describes in her 2018 book, Down Girl, where misogyny is defined as the constant practice of correcting and policing women's behavior to maintain male power. For many southern white women, at a subconscious level, submissiveness became their duty. Their oppression became their privilege. Tradition became their cause, and faith became their defense, just as it had been for much of the Confederacy.”

-Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields, The Long Southern Strategy

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Ex Machina (2015) dir. Alex Garland

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One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction. Ex Machina (2015) dir. Alex Garland

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anon is actually just John Bolton

You think is good for Bolivia? They've dug their own grave just like Venezuela and Iran and North Korea, and Cuba. They will be sanctioned into poverty and isolation from the rest of the world. They should have chose freedom and prosperity. They have no one to blame but themselves for what happens next.

You’re stupid and racist.

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I know it’s the depression but I just hate myself so much right now.

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The Housemaid (2010) dir. Im Sang-soo

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The Housemaid (Im Sang-soo, 2010)  

“Revolting. Ugly. Nauseating. Shameless.” 

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Do know what’s really scary? You want to forget something. Totally wipe it off your mind. But you never can. It can’t go away, you see. And it follows you around like a ghost.

장화, 홍련 | A Tale of Two Sisters 2003, dir. Jee-Woon Kim

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Burning (2018) dir. Lee Chang-dong

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Mysterious people who are young and rich, but you don’t know what they really do… There are so many Gatsbys in Korea.

Burning (2018) dir. Lee Chang-dong

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the witch: part 1. the subversion 마녀 (2018) dir. park hoon-jung

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The Witch: Part 1 - The Subversion (2018)

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what have you people done to me?

The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion (2018) dir. Park Hoon Jung

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THE HANDMAIDEN (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook

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THE HANDMAIDEN (2016) DIR. PARK CHAN-WOOK

The daughter of a legendary thief, who sewed winter coats out of stolen purses. Herself a thief, pickpocket, swindler. The saviour who came to tear my life apart. My Tamako. My Sookee.