I will n o t keep my mouth shut. A bitch knows her voice. Knows how to howl with a wolf pack in her throat. A bitch is honest. A bitch doesn’t follow the rules; demands to know who wrote them. Rules are weak. Rules are prey.
{ Indie & Selective Lydia Martin }
Post it memory loss thing
“——the source material still makes
me uncomfortable as hell, because
even if you interpret it in a less
misogynistic way? At the end of the
day, it was still written by a man in a
time period where it was considered
commonplace for women to be
complacent and subservient to men.
And he’s no longer with us to confirm
or deny what he meant. 10 Things I
Hate About You is probably my favorite
adaptation of that story because Kat
never has to abandon her values to
love or be loved by Patrick. Not that it’s
without its flaws, of course.
Because I cannot stand Kat and Bianca’s
father and the way that the film perpetuates
the idea that it is the father’s job to be the
gate keeper of his daughter’s virginity, and
that he must ‘save the flighty and lustful girl
from herself’ or whatever. And I feel like
someone with Kat’s forward thinking and
clearly feminist views should probably have
protested that more. Even if she was
uninterested in dating—which is perfectly
fine—it should have bothered her more that
she and her sister were being robbed of their
autonomy. And again when these boys
manipulate her into dating, which she doesn’t
want to do, just so one of them can date her sister.
Which brings us to the biggest, most
fatal flaw in that story: that what made
her the ‘Shrew’ in the first place was
the fact that she was a feminist, as if
women should be scorned and
considered unlovable because they
believe strongly in being autonomous,
free-thinking human beings with rights
and respect. Gee, it’s almost like the
world is systematically stacked against
the success and intelligence of women
and that Kat is absolutely right to try and
negate that or something. Whodathunk?”
