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Kind of Blue

(8,709 posts) Fri Mar 8, 2019, 10:11 AM Mar 2019

International Women's Day, For the Other Half of the Sky

Amazing animator Nina Paley's Return of the Golden Calf, Return of the Goddess.

vimeo.com/137914490

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International Women's Day, For the Other Half of the Sky (Original Post) Kind of Blue Mar 2019 OP

Well 2naSalit Mar 2019 #1

Agreed, 2naSalit. I also think it's the remembering Kind of Blue Mar 2019 #2

2naSalit

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1. Well

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Fri Mar 8, 2019, 02:32 PM

Mar 2019

if they love us, they sure have a messed up way of showing it. I guess that as long as everything is on their terms, all's good.

Kind of Blue

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2. Agreed, 2naSalit. I also think it's the remembering

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 8, 2019, 07:13 PM

Mar 2019

of who we were before patriarchy that Paley tried to express, the reverence for woman. I just love the end of the video, Moses, on Mt. Sinai with his Ten Commandments, in the dark stormy foreground is either calculating the end of the goddess or perhaps we can view now as the beginning of the end of patriarchy.

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