Thank you! Marcia Clark came into my life when I was 12/13 years old and she opened my eyes to so much. I grew up in a conservative Christian environment and to see a woman arguing with men was just an amazing experience. And the way she was treated taught me that feminism was something that was needed in the world - not something that was sinful.
But I am really glad we're revisiting the trial now, with this miniseries and also the ESPN documentary. The trial dealt with some of the hardest issues of American life - racism and sexism - and in the '90s, we treated (at least the mainstream media) so much of it stereotypically. Marcia Clark was the shrewish, incompetent bitch and Johnnie Cochran was the charming huckster. Both he and Marcia Clark and Chris Darden and the others involved have been given much more complexity in our current cultural retrospective.
Yes! Her words are her weapons! And so many of the scenes where she's speaking I kept the world because she's fighting and I loved the line of dialogue that went with it. And the show made her a competent equal to the defense lawyers whereas she's been portrayed as grossly incompetent for years.
It is such a great song! I'm so glad chaila convinced me to use it for this vid even though she did such an amazing vid for Birgitte Nyborg with it.
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Date: 2016-08-03 11:06 pm (UTC)But I am really glad we're revisiting the trial now, with this miniseries and also the ESPN documentary. The trial dealt with some of the hardest issues of American life - racism and sexism - and in the '90s, we treated (at least the mainstream media) so much of it stereotypically. Marcia Clark was the shrewish, incompetent bitch and Johnnie Cochran was the charming huckster. Both he and Marcia Clark and Chris Darden and the others involved have been given much more complexity in our current cultural retrospective.
Yes! Her words are her weapons! And so many of the scenes where she's speaking I kept the world because she's fighting and I loved the line of dialogue that went with it. And the show made her a competent equal to the defense lawyers whereas she's been portrayed as grossly incompetent for years.
It is such a great song! I'm so glad
Thank you so much for watching. <3