Salon.com: Earlier this month when Rose McGowan appeared before reporters at a press event in Pasadena, Calif., one journalist asked McGowan whether a show such as her five-part documentary series “Citizen Rose,” debuting Tuesday at 8 p.m., could have landed at a network like E! if it were introducing an everyday person or an unknown activist.
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I did not know who Rose McGowan before reading this article. I guess that’s part of the point of these Production Technology Management comments. After looking at her IMDB and reading this article, I am in awe of Rose McGowan. While I love that the article talks about her upcoming success in music and other endeavors, I also love the quote that they inserted from McGowan herself for how she arrived at her current success. No one actor is constantly successful without work, and it's obvious to me that McGowan has worked for her success. It is amazing to see a woman who had her voice stolen from her, regain it and use it for positive change within this “casting couch” industry. However, this article also asks an important question about feminism. I believe that feminism means equality, no matter one's race, ethnicity, or gender. Rose McGowan seems to be wrestling with a fractured feminism identity in the way in which she might not be fighting for all women.
Unlike Ella, I have seen a lot about Rose McGowan in the news, on social media, etc. recently, and she has seriously seemed to rub me the wrong way. It can be important for movements like the feminist movement to have a more harsh and militant member that is willing to speak loudly and upright about any topic, but I find myself being drawn to a more soft approach: really thinking about my arguments and the arguments of others and then trying to create change from thoughtfulness and hope for the future. In all of the statements that I have seen Rose McGowan put out, she seems to focus on the negativities that come with sexism and oppression rather than a focus on a want for change. To me, that is not at all the way to go about protest and change. This article also highlighted the sort of self-promoting attitude that McGowan seems to possess, and therefore we must answer the question-- is she really going to be at the head of the movement we are all fighting for?
I think this article makes a very good point about how Rose McGowan needs to share her platmore with non-white women, but no one person can be the face of feminism. There are many aspects and perspective that create feminism so stating that Rose McGowan should be the center point is unfounded. She is an extremely accomplished actress, despite being blacklisted, and it is amazing that she has developed a platform to stand up for women. However, she can not be the center point of the movement. As the article points out, McGowan is a white women and therefore can not speak for the experiences of black, Latinx, Asian and indigenous women. Feminism needs to be for everyone therefore we can not only have white women as the spokes women. McGowan should make sure to include these women and share her platform with them. That being said, it’s wonderful that McGowan gets to share her experience on a well known platform such as E!. Hopeful this is another part of the feminist movement and continues to propel women, no matter their race or ethnicity, forwards.
When I first started reading this article I was expecting the content to be of a women who struggled but was able to move beyond her plight and promote herself. What I wasn’t expecting was the brutal honesty of the author as they discuss how Rose McGowan is solely representing the white, privileged female life, being insensitive towards all the other women who have been struggling from much more for much longer. I think hearing what this journalist has to say is something our society still just doesn’t hear enough of. Yes every struggle a woman goes through is different and important, but women need to understand exactly that. White women need to be able to accept that maybe the feminism they stand for is only geared to helping those that look like them, and from there they need to move forward and beyond that fight to the greater fight for all women, “black, Latinx, Asian and indigenous women”. And more on Rose McGowan herself, I am inspired and impressed with the work she has created in response to being raped by Weinstein. I know the journalist is skeptical of the platform, E!, that Rose’s show is debuting on; however, I think hearing a feminist voice, idealized as it may, is a step in the right direction of reform and change against the standard shows of idealized women that E! Had been previously showing.
Rose McGowan has fought so diligently through the years to have her voice heard and I love to acknowledge woman who are using their platforms to try and incite change, however similar to Anabel, in recent times she has been saying and acting in a way that is not as beneficial to widespread, intersectional feminism. While I do agree that she is a notable feminist figure, I don’t think a singular, rich, white woman can be considered the face of all feminism, when she does not even truly acknowledge other elements of it. One of the key things about feminism- now that women are finding it in theirselves to fight for their rights- is the intersectionality that is not even being acknowledged by the majority of people identifying as feminists. I think the article makes a strong point in response to McGowan’s statement about not wanting to be seen as anything, because she is seen as something and that is a voice for the white women trying to fight for white women equality when there are other women of color who are still facing harsh discrimination.
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