No more bimbos

Excellent suggestion from Mexican woman:

Madrid, Nov. 29, 2005 (CNA) - During the II International Symposium on Education and Film, held in Valencia, Spain, the former director of the Interdisciplinary Group for Women’s Issues in Mexico, Valeria Guerra Soler, emphasized the need for women to have a more dynamic presence in the film industry and that movies should promote “a greater social presence for women.”

Guerra Soler said movies ought to bear witness to “the characteristics proper to women, such as their fulfillment in love, their strength, their feminine genius, their mission of protecting life and their intuition,” which helps them understand others and “contribute to the richness of interpersonal relationships.”

As examples of a “correct and appropriate treatment of women,” she mentioned the characters of Mary of Nazareth in “The Passion of the Christ” and Mae Braddock in “Cinderella Man.”

Film should be a tool, she continued, that shows that women, with their particular characteristics, help “to configure the civilization of love” by affirming “the value of life and love,” and that, “having an intimate relationship with the mystery of the transmission of life, they are especially endowed to transmit and protect life and love.”

Wow, what a novelty that would be -- to forego the image of women as objects and replace it with women as subjects. Straight out of Love and Responsibility.

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[sunnyday]

Hi there!

Before I forget, thanks for posting such neat materials here. I pass by at least every other day to check out what's new, and I've gotten to learn about news and features through your blog and put them on my blog as well (I think I've done that at least twice already) -- without telling you.

I'm aware that you also obtained the materials from websites, but just the same I'd like to thank you for spreading the news and enabling others like me to know about them!

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Thanks!

Sunny