Oh Anna. You truly make my heart melt!

No words.

Just absolute brilliance.

This woman truly is in a league of her own.



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Just out the oven

Is Gay the New Feminism?

"I hear the decadence is calling," said Samantha Jones, one of the leading characters from Sex and The City 2. Played by Kim Catrall, she is the sexual predator and one of many faces of the metropolitan women portrayed in this film.

And she was right. The decadence was indeed calling rather loudly. The goal of Sex and The City 2 was never to deliver beauty. or entertainment. The goal was change. The film is another ambitious vessel of feminism and gay right movement. After all, the audience of this film draws largely from women and gays. And quite obvious, that Sex and the City 2 harbours a very passionate, almost vengeful, team of feminist writers.

Some might argue, that the film is misogynist, bigoted, biased, racially insensitive and borderline aggressive, but Sex and the City 2 is a poignant attack from the feminist, albeit very weak, because of the lack of diversity from the film's target market. It's a transformative declaration of the women's movement, an announcement to the world: I am in control of my own flesh and mind. And I reflect that from the way I behave and dress.

Middle eastern women in the Sex and The City 2 depiction was a stereotypical portrayal. The film, somewhat, forces its' thought vehemently that it offers not salvation, but grievance. Yet the very first few women who lay their hands on the runway are the wealthy middle eastern women. They understand the core value of avant garde fashion is actually an art - more so of a forbidden fruit. The clothes are not to be worn, but to be displayed in all their mighty glory behind glass boxes. So there are some truths to that, although the discussion is a very delicate subject.

Fashion has always been a vehicle to present the fight of feminism to the world. It used to be vulnerable instrument of suppression, and now has become as a billboard sign, "Look at me. I am a woman and I am very capable." That's how women invented the blue power suit in 70's to counter the dominance of men in the board room and unfortunately, fashion changes as rapidly as it comes. The power of that blue suit becomes impotence. And then come, Madonna, Grace Jones, Christina Aguilera, and now Lady Gaga.

On the other hands, the gays are the new feminists. We have been trying to fight for equality for more than two decades, and we have not yet gotten any further. There are still countries who consider gays as a human treachery punishable by death, like to my dismay, the recent case in Malawi. And we are sharing the same vehicle from the women - fashion. So if women have not yet fully succeeded although it can still be considered a milestone of power, can I hear the loud cheering from the gays across the world very soon?