analysis 6: The perfect girl

The femenistic ideaas and theories of Judith Fetterley and Luce Irigaray focus on the idea of mimesis. Fetterley discusses the notion that American literature, specifically, is predominantly male. The forms and indications within American literary context are targeted as male. Through a femenist perspective, males have robbed women the opportunity to distinguish literature as a female instead as a male; they have done this by pushing women aside in literary context and most of all through religion. " To read the canon of what is currently considered classic American literature is perforce to identify as male. Our literature neither leaves women alone nor allows them to participate" (Fetterley 561). Of course, this type of feminist ideology was not enough for Luce Irigaray, who states that women are forced to submit to mimesis. Women have to assimilate societal male functions to be acknowledged and succeed within their communities. "...a direct femenine challenge to this condition means demanding to speak as a (masculine) 'subject'...-the cover-up of a possible operation of the femenine in language" (Irigaray 570).

In the clip above, a girl has an enormous crush on her co-worker and so she flirtatiously approaches him. Having paid no attention to her. the girl then goes back to her work cubicle to talk to her friend about it. They then listen closley to his cubicle and overhear him. He states that he wants a girl that could shut up, watch sports and drink beer, the steretypical role of a man. The girls then go to make a transformation of his desires.

Fetterley, Judith. "On the politics of Literature (1978)." Literary theory, an anthology. Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 1998. 561-69.

Irigaray, Luce. "The power of discourse and the subordination of the Femenine (1977)." Literary theory, an anthology. Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 1998. 570-73.