Watch it: Itty Bitty Titty Committee
I was sick in bed yesterday (actually, still am) so I thought it would be a good opportunity to catch up on some movies I've been meaning to watch: Itty Bitty Titty Committee was one of them.
It was awesome, super fun and interesting. And I have to say, I was really pleased to see it not too far down iTunes "top rented" lists. Nice. C(I)A rules.
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yes, and the soundtrack rules! There is a rant about Shulamith Firestone that is priceless in the film.
This looks so cool. I hadn't heard about this. Thanks Feministing! And it had Daniela Sea in it.
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Was I the only person who found this movie to be slightly irritating? I really wanted to like it, especially since But I'm a Cheerleader is my all-time favorite film but I just found the characters to be a little too self-righteous for my liking.
Same. I expected it to be a lot of fun, but it came across kind of on the smug side. I really liked the lead character, but a lot of the others just seemed like shadows. And I was surprised at the unexamined ageism in the treatment of Sadie's partner. All in all, disappointing.
I was a disappointed in this movie too. The concept was good but I didn't feel like it delivered a sense of reality. It may have just been the portrayals by the actors. Movies like "But I'm a Cheerleader" and "All Over Me" had a certain connection to them and a certain sense of believability that I didn't get in IBTC.
It was a fun movie though.
Add one more to the list of unimpressed. I agree that the characters were all overly simplified and egotistical stereotypes of feminists. While I appreciate that this film exists, I can't say I personally enjoyed it. However, the writer who reviewed it on our site did. Poe-tay-toe, poe-tah-toe and all.
I loved this! The lead character got her "new convert" feminist character so spot-on I was a little embarrassed. Why can't there be more movies with all-female leads that aren't Sex in the City tripe?
I feel really awesome after watching a film like that-- imagine if strong female character were the norm, what that kind of imbibing of culture would do for the morale of ladykind?
I wish this movie had come out when I was in my early teens. It would have deffinately helped move along my journey as a young feminist.
I think the price the movie payed for not having characters with depth was an analysis of race and privilige. Becuase the characters were two-deminsional it just looked like a bunch of white ladies were telling a woc that she was oppressed and that she could be free in the same ways they could be free.
to your second paragraph - i agree!! i had to turn this movie off like 30 minutes in because the lack of understanding around race was soooo unbearable to me.
Damn...have not heard the term IBTC since the 70s!
Glad to see I'm not the only one who's discovered this movie!
A Laodicean was not the only novel to represent the home as a problem the New Woman had to resolve. Paula Power marries an architect who will help her build a future, but others lacked either her pluck or her resources. In George Gissing’s The Odd Women (1893), Monica Widdowson flees the home of her doltish husband and attempts unsuccessfully to gain the scandalous protection of her lover’s flat: “She knocked at her lover’s door, and stood longing, praying, that it might open. But it did not.”18 Unable to gain admission, she returns to her husband, becomes pregnant, and dies shortly after giving birth. Similarly, in Hardy’s later Jude the Obscure (1895), Sue Bridehead wanders from one rooming house to another, unable to find accommodation because of the unconventional nature of her family. And in Grant Allen’s 1895 best-seller The Woman Who Did, Herminia Barton is finally driven to suicide by her inability to provide an acceptable home from which to marry off her illegitimate daughter. Like New Woman writers, female aesthetes sought to reshape the home to better accord with women’s changing sense of self. Rosamund Marriott Watson’s work on interior design, The Art of the House (1897), writes Talia Schaffer, represents the home as a place that “must be redefined as women’s identity changes.