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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
March 29,2000 • the Seahawk
“Myths that Maim” aims to raise awareness
by MEGAN O'BRIEN
A&E Editor
As a part of Women's History Month,
associate professors Janet Ellerby and
Andrea Deagon showed a video titled
“Myths That Maim" and led a discus
sion about gender issues afterward.
“This video goes through the stories
that we endure every day in the images
of...our culture...in our advertising, in
the TV shows that we watch, in the
books that we read, the fairy stories that
we grew up with as children, the com
mercials, the movies, everything that
surrounds us in our culture." Deagon
said. “I think of it as a locomotive of
stories that we’re trying to stop by
throwing our grass and flowers on the
track.”
Women’s role in society has changed
dramatically in the past century. Ac
cording to Ellerby, there are more
women being admitted to medical and
law school than men.
“But the one thing that isn’t chang
ing is the sexual violence and physical
abuse of women and girls.” Ellerby said.
“Those kind of things are so sobering
and that’s why we really still need a pro
gram like ‘Myths that Maim’...”
The film opens with a shot of sleep
ing baby girl, and moves through a se
ries of images of her playing, laughing,
and hugging an older woman while the
narrator recites a series of statistics.
“The next time you look into the eyes
of a baby girl, remember that she has a
1 in 5 chance of being raped, that there’s
a 50 per cent chance of her being physi
cally or sexually abused, a 1 in 4 chance
of being beaten by her spouse,” narra
tor Maureen O'Hara says.
From these statistics, the video ex
amines the ancient connections between
woman and nature, like the Greek earth-
Dr. Andrea Deagon introduced last
Thursday’s showing of “Myths that Maim”
as part of Women’s History Month.
goddesses Gaia and Demeter. The film
also looked at how the connection with
nature was demonized by the witch tri
als of the 17th century. It explored the
way women are characterized as either
purely good, virtuous and virginal, or
evil seductresses out to destroy man
kind; the “good girl/bad girl” mentality
that has been popularized through cen
turies of art, literature and movies.
After the video ended, Ellerby and
Deagon took comments from the audi
ence. One of the main issues discussed
was raising people’s awareness about
the problems inherent in the way Ameri
cans learn gender identity.
“I don’t blame men, I think this has
gone on for so long, we can't blame any
body. It’s been ingrained, and we need
to start with awareness,” Pollack said.
Ellerby and Deagon showed “Myths
That Maim” before, but they were more
impressed by last Thursday's crowd.
\bout 5 years ago, we showed it,
and ' had a good turnout then, but the
discussion was not as sophisticated, I
think,” Ellerby said. “I was surprised to
see how many men there were in the
audience, because the last time we did
this there were very few men.”
Special Concert Announcements
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