[ SECRET POST #2939 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2939 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I googled "Amy Gone Girl feminist icon" to see these masses of feminists idolizing Amy. Surprisingly, they weren't there! There was an argument that the movie was surprisingly feminist in the way it showed how Amy's sociopathy was figured through gendered expectations (this was by Todd van der Weff, whose arguments about feminist I find. . .sometimes off. Also, he once swore at me for arguing with him about an episode of Louie. Yeah, that episode.) There were three essays condemning it for figuring around a woman lying about rape and domestic abuse. There was a piece pointing out that we are more likely to respond to female characters as saying something about Women, because we have fewer and less varied examples to being with. There was an essay citing debates about whether "femme fatales" were inherently misogynistic, or whether that assumption is its own kind of fetishization. There was an article noting that people have overlooked Amy's ability to do what she does is ingrained in other privileges that make her such a beloved "Dead Girl"--her race, her relative wealth, her familial connections.

The strongest praise I've seen is from people saying the text (including both book and film) is feminist, or at least does interesting things with gender politics--and for everyone saying that, there's one saying it's misogynist, full stop. Even one article that referred to Amy as an "icon of feminism" linked back to an article that said no such thing. In 20 articles, I found ONE piece calling her not a feminist icon, but a cinematic icon of chilly female villainy.