This is one of the BEST movies I have seen in a long time! As women, even today, we are often overlooked with our ideas. Things have gotten better. There are more women ran businesses today then ever before! But in some companies, women still don't earn the same amount of money as men do for the same position.
Gloria Steinem stood up for women's rights. She wrote articles for many newspapers and magazines. But many times, her articles went unpublished because she was a woman.
Along with Diane Schulder (author of a book titled "Abortion Rap") and others, she helped create "Ms. Magazine." The first ever women's magazine written and owned by women, for women. If it wasn't for women like Gloria Steinem, nothing I write on my blog, my stories, or poems, would be meaningless to others, because it would have been published, with a man's name.
About half way through the movie, Bette Midler makes an appearance as Bella Abzug. She served in Congress for three terms from 1971 to 1977. Abzug’s political flair and unwavering determination helped inspire an entire generation of women and created a new model for future Congresswomen. Even today, most of our state reps, house reps, and members of congress, are white men.
This movie, The Glorias, shows how at times, Gloria Steinem felt like a scared little girl. The movie looks back on her childhood, teen and young adult years. Gloria is spoke at at least two Catholic churches in real life, but one in the movie. Here's what I found online as to what she said: (found this here published in November 1978)
"In two 20-minute addresses, Steinem had said, "Until women control our lives from the skin in, we cannot control our lives from the skin out." "Women have never been able to see the god in themselves," she said. "We have been made to doubt our own strength and wisdom."
"We will defend always," she said, the right of every woman and man to reproductive freedom. That is as important as freedom of speech or freedom of assembly - at least as important. Without that, there is no freedom of choice. . . ."
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Gloria Steinem became a speaker on women's rights and issues because she listens. She hears us! Our fears, our hopes, our dreams, and more.
Every teenaged girl and every woman needs to see this movie. As we speak, women's rights are being taken away again. Many U.S. states are once again, trying to ban abortion: Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and a majority of the Eastern United States.
Gloria Steinem, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and many other women have helped fight for us to have these rights, and in half of the U.S. States, women are just letting these rights fade away, again. Abortion sucks! BUT it's our choice!
You can follow Gloria Steinem on Twitter and MS. Magazine is still available to purchase today! The Glorias movie is based on the book "My Life on the Road," by Gloria Steinem herself!
It was an honor to have seen this movie. Gloria Steinem's life is full of American History, Cherokee History, Asian Women's history, along with how life was and still is, in parts of India, and more. (I spent four months living in India back in 2006. In 2006, they still needed their husband's "permission" to wear pants or jeans.")
I hope that you go see this movie. Then I hope that you share about it with your family, daughters, sisters, aunts, nieces, grandmothers, female friends, and more. I hope that it inspires you to be yourself and to let yourself shine and to not be afraid of what the men around you in the workplace think about you. Who cares what they think? Some men are encouragers, while some men today will day and do anything to keep us from being who we are meant to be. Check out the trailer below.
"The Glorias" will also be available for purchase and on Amazon Prime Video on September 30, 2020!
Directed by: Julie Taymor
Written by: Julie Taymor and Sarah Ruhl
Based on the book ‘My Life on the Road’ by Gloria Steinem
Starring: Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Bette Midler, Janelle Monáe, Lorraine Toussaint, Lulu Wilson, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Kimberly Guerrero
About the Movie: Journalist, fighter, and feminist Gloria Steinem is an indelible icon known for her world-shaping activism, guidance of the revolutionary women’s movement, and writing that has impacted generations. In this nontraditional biopic, Julie Taymor crafts a complex tapestry of one of the most inspirational and legendary figures of modern history, based on Steinem’s own biographical book ‘My Life on the Road.’ THE GLORIAS (Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson, Ryan Keira Armstrong) traces Steinem’s influential journey to prominence—from her time in India as a young woman, to the founding of Ms. magazine in New York, to her role in the rise of the women’s rights movement in the 1960s, to the historic 1977 National Women’s Conference and beyond.
THE GLORIAS includes a number of iconic women who made profound contributions to the women’s movement, including Dorothy Pitman Hughes (Janelle Monáe), Flo Kennedy (Lorraine Toussaint), Bella Abzug (Bette Midler), Dolores Huerta (Monica Sanchez) and Wilma Mankiller (Kimberly Guerrero).
Taymor gives us her singular take on that rare genre- the Female Road Picture, one in which the female leads do not die in the end, and where the “narrative” is not driven by romance or a bad marriage, or unrequited love or, for that matter, men. Gloria’s road story is about her “Meetings With Remarkable Women”. And that is a love story in itself.
139 Minutes | Rated R
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