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How to Build a Feminist [A Patreon Exclusive Video Essay]
Added 2024-10-01 13:49:46 +0000 UTCSo this is it!!!! AHHHHH!!! 😍 This is the video essay we’ve been working on! To be clear, this will not be released on Youtube. “How to Build a Feminist” is just for Patreon!
We did originally plan to release this on Youtube, but after a lot of consideration (and advice from friends) we’ve decided this video is a little too … hefty for a Youtube audience. A little niche. A little… eccentric!
So instead, we are going to publish a shorter video to Youtube on Friday, which covers one-ish of the chapters from “How to Build a Feminist” but will feel like its own complete video with a new ending and everything. So that’s all terribly exciting!
We also have a behind the scenes video that’s coming exclusively to Patreon probably next week!
Thank you again everyone for your support and your patience! You all are so wonderful, we genuinely have no words.
Enjoy!! 🥳
EDIT: Also check out this behind the scenes video!
Comments
Verity, I have a little extra cash and now I can finally see this wonderful excellent video :D I'm so happy this video exists
Stephani Soejono
2025-07-15 12:53:05 +0000 UTCThanks, Rome! We have seen Shaun's video, and I don't think there's any conflict between what Shaun argues and what we argue. For Eva to be a femme fatale, she can still be emotional. In fact, we argue that she does "become" human essentially, but we argue that the film conveys her journey to humanity as being defined by the sexual desires of the men. She's designed to be sexually attractive to Caleb, and when she dresses herself (sensually, while being watched by Caleb) at the end when she is liberating herself, it is with pieces of the bodies Nathan is attracted to, finally putting on a dress which matches the painting on Nathan's wall. Her humanity is defined by her sexual desirability to Caleb and Nathan and the film is about how that desirability leads to the men's destruction. Shaun's video isn't unreasonable, but he's very focused on one particular element of the film. He doesn't analyse Eva and Kyoko's relationships to the tradition of fembots in cinema and he doesn't touch on the male gaze either. We found his video to be somewhat limited in its scope.
Verity
2025-05-05 06:34:26 +0000 UTChi, excellent video! i have a question about just one small part of it— have you seen Shaun’s video “How Wikipedia Got Ex Machina (2014) Wrong”? it contests the analysis on wikipedia which is somewhat similar to your analysis by considering another character, kyoko. not saying your reading of ex machina is wrong necessarily just thought it might be interesting.
Rome
2025-05-04 22:04:00 +0000 UTC
