Comments on: The Constant Gardener http://www.thefeministreview.com/2008/09/the-constant-gardener.html Calling Patriarchy As We See It Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:51:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anna Lisa http://www.thefeministreview.com/2008/09/the-constant-gardener.html/comment-page-1#comment-320 Anna Lisa Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:07:06 +0000 http://www.thefeministreview.com/2008/09/the-constant-gardener.html#comment-320 plot of the Constant Gardener shows up in real life: US Tests HPV on Immigrants http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/15/immigrant-gardasil/ plot of the Constant Gardener shows up in real life:
US Tests HPV on Immigrants
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/15/immigrant-gardasil/

]]> By: Kirsten http://www.thefeministreview.com/2008/09/the-constant-gardener.html/comment-page-1#comment-222 Kirsten Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:21:38 +0000 http://www.thefeministreview.com/2008/09/the-constant-gardener.html#comment-222 I don't know, maybe it's because infidelity has happened both to me and around me to great personal impact, but the idea of that question - that someone was honest about their conduct within a relationship - doesn't seem inherently tied to his or her sexual objectification. Fidelity (as it is constructed within individual relationships not as it has been traditionally mandated - and gendered - by our culture) can ultimately be about keeping promises. Broken promises are one of life's greatest little moral questions. From my vantage, the Constant Gardener used that tight-focus question to examine larger, social issues of promises and morality much less than it depicted a woman as an object. Which is not to say that Justin isn't ultimately a truly pathetic character. I don’t know, maybe it’s because infidelity has happened both to me and around me to great personal impact, but the idea of that question – that someone was honest about their conduct within a relationship – doesn’t seem inherently tied to his or her sexual objectification.

Fidelity (as it is constructed within individual relationships not as it has been traditionally mandated – and gendered – by our culture) can ultimately be about keeping promises. Broken promises are one of life’s greatest little moral questions. From my vantage, the Constant Gardener used that tight-focus question to examine larger, social issues of promises and morality much less than it depicted a woman as an object.

Which is not to say that Justin isn’t ultimately a truly pathetic character.

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