The material I read for today’s blog wasn’t exactly an article, but a blog entry like this one. It was about the writer’s first impression of Dollhouse upon watching the pilot episode. I decided to blog about it because it made a few valid points and introduced a few terms that I think would be useful for my research. The word that she used was “misogyny,” which is defined as the “display of prejudice against women; hatred of women; looking down upon women.” I suppose this is the more technical term that I can use instead of “anti-feminism.” However, I find it to be a bit strong because all the entries online say “hatred of women.” But for the sake of academic language, I think it would be more proper to use this term. The blog entry opened the discussion with a question for readers asking if they find it problematic that the female characters “have no free agency (except to join the dollhouse)” and that even the joining of the Dollhouse was mostly forced upon them because of the bad situations they were in. it then talks about how the supposed prostitution that is going on in the show is somehow justified by the fact that they are not aware that they are essentially being raped, and that their memories are wiped after so it’s not really a big deal. Since the author of the entry only watched the first episode, she was not able to touch on the whole handler-active issue that was raised by the 6th episode, but I’m sure I can find some material on that somewhere.
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