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Feminist-sociological perspective on Othering

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Hide your personal failures from social media!

Posted on 20th April 2017 by Pivec

Social media allows us to self-create a better version of ourselves, an ideal/ized life, much bigger and glossier than the “real” experience, but to achieve this level of perfection or seamlessness, it needs to be tailored into an almost a fantasy-like living, where there are no mistakes, no (self)doubts and no failures.

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Posted in media, stigma | Tagged intimacy, media, stigma
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Three (is not a Crowd): Tom Tykwer’s polyamorous film

Posted on 3rd October 2015 by Pivec

Polyamory as a less conventional social arrangement of intimacy that includes more than two people, consensually involved in a sexual and/or romantic relationship at the same time, is becoming more recognizable and visible even in films. Film is a powerful cultural text and its representations of something less familiar or even Othered can either challenge or reaffirm the traditional conceptions about our social reality; polyamorous relationships can be portrayed within the discourse of acceptability or abnormality (i.e. poly people being punished or relationships being pathologized – ridiculed, diminished, annihilated, trivialised).

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Posted in body, gender, intimacy, media | Tagged Film, gender, intimacy, polyamory