ext_281244 ([identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] poptimists 2007-12-05 10:55 am (UTC)

Re: Lex writes on "the traditional"

Well, one of the problems with "subversion" is that every act of "subversiveness" tends to exclude a new set of people who then need to find their own means of "subversion". So we have

Male-dominant female-object mainstream media 'subverted' by
Female-dominant male-object pop which in turn excludes
People who want to reject objectivisation anyway - now maybe these people CAN'T do this, or maybe their kind of pop would be rubbish, I don't know.

I think the phrase "power dynamic" is more useful than the phrase "subversion" - since all the subversion is doing is offering an alternative power dynamic.

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