LADYTINGS

I started a new blog!
Don't worry, Puritans is still my baby. But Role Models, my new blog, is dedicated to celebrating women of achievement. Think Hillary, Sofia and Virginia. Like I said in a previous post, I'm sick of having no distinguished women to look up to in the media so I'm starting this blog to hopefully help myself and maybe other people might appreciate it too. Tumblr is a little confusing to me, but as Kanye West says #ITSAPROCESS. So, check it out.

http://ladytings.tumblr.com/

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Sofia Coppola by Juergen Teller.

Bill + Hill

Bill and Hillary Clinton on their wedding day.
This photo almost makes me sad.

Prepare for a (epic, hopefully) Life of Hillary post (soon, hopefully). If I knew anything about films I'd make a Hillary biopic starring Kirsten Dunst as young Hillary, a hazy Sofia Coppola-esque story about a girl's coming of age.

A Room of One's Own

'[B]ut here I was actually at the door which leads into the library itself. I must have opened it, for instantly there issued, like a guardian angel barring the way with a flutter of black gown instead of white wings, a deprecating, silvery, kindly gentleman, who regretted in a low voice as he waved me back that ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the college or furnished with a letter of introduction.

That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. Venerable and calm, with all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep for ever.'

— Virginia Woolf describes her attempt at entry to the Wren, A Room of One's Own (1929).
The Wren is a library belonging to Trinity College.

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These are the first pages of images which show up on Google. Hillary Clinton is so often depicted unflatteringly. Young women have older women to look up to, there are so few women depicted favourably who are above forty and intelligently noteworthy. These images almost serve as a warning for young women: If you want to be smart, ambitious and successful, you will be ugly. On the other hand, the term a 'distinguished man' is basically a synonym for handsome. Also notice how these two results are so reflective of gender constructs, Bill is calm and strikingly blue. Hillary is erratic and colorful, qualities usually considered feminine.

Like, look that that photo of Bill, 1st one second row, when will someone depict a women like that? A flattering portrait of one's imperfections one which commands respect and forgiveness. Beautiful lines and character as on the face of a loved one. No one depicts women like that and I'm sick of it.
Popular media, I beg of you, give me a role model.

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Shannyn Sossamon
Soooo hot.

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Brigitte Bardot.
Happy August everyone!
VIA