Word: debeauvoir
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...Sings, The Other Doesn't, feminist art is to insult both feminism and art. Such claims will undoubtedly be made, however, for Varda sets her story of the long-term friendship of two women against the back-drop of the feminist movement of the '60s, presumably illustrating Simone deBeauvoir's famous line, "women are made, not born." But Varda's feminism concerns itself only with those things that have to do specifically with the female body. For her, feminism equals the Pill and easily-had abortions. Varda fails to realize that women are troubled by anything other than unwanted pregnancies...
...always been female dependence, often ends up repeating itself. Women get too wrapped up in their own way of saying things, trying to prove that they've psyched it out better than the others, and forget that their sisters have said the same thing just as well. Simone DeBeauvoir started this generation's plotting of the course of Where We Were Conditioned, and far too many have repeated it with only minor variations. It's time to get away from the comprehensive, this-says-it-all-book, and on to the specific issues...
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