Mustang

Wanna see a good feminist film?

Wanna know why feminism is still so important?

Wanna know why contemporary feminism is hitting it's head against a brick wall?

Well...you've come to the right place!

If ever there was a country caught between a rock and a hard place...Turkey, is it!

A country that struggles with it's Islamic [traditional] identity and it's European [christian] desires...it's like oil and water.

In these troubling times, Turkey is extorting itself into the European Union... into a house of cards, a mighty mis-managed mistake...migrants gamble with their lives for a better life...and, mothers and grandmothers [still] make their daughters' lives miserable.

Now, here's is a little know fact...the European Union supports polygamy and child [enforced] marriage...What?!? It can't be true?!? Can it?!? Yes.

If you don't believe it...click here and here...grim reading indeed. When countries acknowledge and accept this systematic abuse of dignity...then, the narrative demands to be changed. In other words, feminists stop preaching to yourselves...get out there and help women who need to be helped! Start by dismantling the patriarchs...brick-by-brick, keep chipping away...and, Turkey is the place to be...chinks in its manly armour are beginning to show and those chinks are ripe for exploitation.

You want Europe...then, treat your women better. And, women...you want to be treated better...then, stop supporting those patriarchal mechanisms for misery.

Marriage should be a choice, for love...not enforced, for the growing into love...that's just dependency. Ever heard of the Stockholm Syndrome?!?

Mustang confronts the misery inflicted on Turkey's daughters...but, thankfully, it is not a miserable film...it basks in the sunlight as these 5 sisters are systematically stripped of their joy, their education, their dignity, their freedom...

The metaphors are bold...the house becomes a prison, the uncle is misogyny, marriage is parole.

It's a deeply affecting and infuriating film...with a clear message...for feminists, for young women, for women who live with these situations...

Every man should see this film...and, when you think long and hard about it, the irony is surprising...feminism needs men!

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