Comments on: Madonna and Me http://blog.elanasztokman.com/2008/07/20/is-madonna-a-feminist-icon/ For Serious Jewish Women Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:44:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Alex http://blog.elanasztokman.com/2008/07/20/is-madonna-a-feminist-icon/#comment-48 Alex Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:32:56 +0000 http://blog.elanasztokman.com/?p=47#comment-48 Your blog is interesting! Keep up the good work! Your blog is interesting!

Keep up the good work!

]]> By: admin http://blog.elanasztokman.com/2008/07/20/is-madonna-a-feminist-icon/#comment-13 admin Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:16:56 +0000 http://blog.elanasztokman.com/?p=47#comment-13 Hi Loolwa! Great to hear from you! Yes -- it's the 'master's tools' thing, audre lourdes. my friend ariella zeller and i talk about that all the time. it's the major conflict of feminism within orthodoxy. can we really be liberated when we're staying within the entire system. what do you think? regards, elana Hi Loolwa!
Great to hear from you!
Yes — it’s the ‘master’s tools’ thing, audre lourdes. my friend ariella zeller and i talk about that all the time. it’s the major conflict of feminism within orthodoxy. can we really be liberated when we’re staying within the entire system.
what do you think?
regards,
elana

]]> By: Loolwa Khazzoom http://blog.elanasztokman.com/2008/07/20/is-madonna-a-feminist-icon/#comment-12 Loolwa Khazzoom Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:07:08 +0000 http://blog.elanasztokman.com/?p=47#comment-12 Elana, I love this site, and I love this article. Bravo! I always felt conflicted about Madonna, for reasons you mentioned above. On the one hand, she is super confident, assertive, and powerful. On the other hand, she uses "the master's tools" in her constructions, which is hardly fresh or liberating. I also was hoping that Madonna would break the mold when she hit middle age, so that younger women like us would have a different paradigm to walk through when we hit it as well. To hell with it. We'll just have to create our own damn paradigm. Loolwa Khazzoom Director, Dancing with Pain http://dancingwithpain.com/blog/ Elana, I love this site, and I love this article. Bravo! I always felt conflicted about Madonna, for reasons you mentioned above. On the one hand, she is super confident, assertive, and powerful. On the other hand, she uses “the master’s tools” in her constructions, which is hardly fresh or liberating.

I also was hoping that Madonna would break the mold when she hit middle age, so that younger women like us would have a different paradigm to walk through when we hit it as well. To hell with it. We’ll just have to create our own damn paradigm.

Loolwa Khazzoom
Director, Dancing with Pain
http://dancingwithpain.com/blog/

]]> By: admin http://blog.elanasztokman.com/2008/07/20/is-madonna-a-feminist-icon/#comment-6 admin Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:39:09 +0000 http://blog.elanasztokman.com/?p=47#comment-6 Annie Makes me want to sing.... "Express yourself...na na na na" e Annie
Makes me want to sing…. “Express yourself…na na na na”
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]]> By: Belinda http://blog.elanasztokman.com/2008/07/20/is-madonna-a-feminist-icon/#comment-5 Belinda Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:35:23 +0000 http://blog.elanasztokman.com/?p=47#comment-5 I agree with everything you write but deep down, no matter what she does, Madonna is my hero... I agree with everything you write but deep down, no matter what she does, Madonna is my hero…

]]> By: Annie Eisen http://blog.elanasztokman.com/2008/07/20/is-madonna-a-feminist-icon/#comment-2 Annie Eisen Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:30:27 +0000 http://blog.elanasztokman.com/?p=47#comment-2 Elana, How true - the article is so eloquent, you have summed up exactly what it is that I feel - Hats off to you, my dear and beautiful friend Love, Annie Elana,

How true - the article is so eloquent, you have summed up exactly what it is that I feel - Hats off to you, my dear and beautiful friend

Love,
Annie

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