It's safe to say I'm not really a fan of the program Castle. Any show with a male lead who is a sleazy tool who isn't actually qualified to do anything but drive a porsche yet is somehow smarter than the qualified woman isn't something I generally watch. However, I am running about packing for #RadFem2013 and it was on in the background.
This weeks episode features a sleazy man [a la Girls Gone Wild dickhead-in-charge] who is murdered by a beautiful woman with her bra. Many, many jokes about women with large breasts ensue. It features lots of gratuitous shots of women in very little clothing being used as objects. I left it on as inspiration for a weekend of ranting with brilliant women.
Right up until the moment, the "good girl" [over-achieving, super-smart daughter of the sleazy tool] comes home from university to visit Daddy who is worried about her blog. Daddy mansplains' the big wide internet world to his baby girl [who is 18 and way smarter than her father]. They reference the Girls Gone Wild videos and teenage daughter explains that Daddy shouldn't worry about her because she's a super-smart university student and not one of "Those Girls" who get drunk and "flash their tits".
Because women who get drunk deserve whatever happens to them.
Because women who "flash their tits" deserve whatever happens to them.
I fucking hate the Patriarchy.
There are no such thing as "sluts" or "good girls". There are women. Just women. And, none of us deserve to get hurt because of something we do or do not do.
Castle is now on my ban list.
SmashtheP shared this article in response to my rant on twitter. It's one of my favourite articles by Feminist Current.
