"Be a Lady" - Cynthia Nixon goes viral with a feminist Instagram video

"Be a Lady": In an Instagram video, actress denounces sexism. The feminism video goes viral.

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• Feminist Instagram video with Cynthia Nixon goes viral
• Criticism of unfulfilled demands on women
• There is a fashion magazine behind the clip

To be thin, to be beautiful, to stay young, to be nice, innocent, but also a little dirty in bed. Is that the perfect woman? “Men like women with a bit of meat on their bones. Be a size zero. Be a double size zero. Be a nothing. "

Actress Cynthia Nixon speaks these words forcefully into the camera, in English of course, accompanied by dark music. "Cover up your stretch marks, pump up your lips, botox your wrinkles and lift your face." There is also a driving electro beat, you can see sectional images of models, Pope Francis, bubbly champagne bottles, strippers and rich men.

Instagram video goes viral: Cynthia Nixon in video on feminism

The video clip "Be a Lady They Said" by the high-fashion magazine "Girls Girls Girls" is currently going viral on the Internet. Cynthia Nixon, best known for her role as Miranda lawyer in Sex and the City, quotes a poem by Camille Rainville. Nixon looks intently into the camera, spits her words outright towards the viewer, her tone: bitingly ironic.

When Nixon says, "Look young, old is ugly. Men don't like ugly, ”a smirking Donald Trump (“ Grab 'em by the pussy ”) appears, elsewhere Harvey Weinstein *, who has just been convicted of sex crime. "Don't get raped, don't drink too much. Don't run alone, don't go out too late. "

Feminism: Video on Instagram "makes you angry"

The feminist video with Nixon obviously hits a nerve. It was viewed over 1.9 million times on Instagram in three days, including well over 10,000 comments. "Goosebumps everywhere," one user writes, "I can't stop looking at it," another writes. “The first time I looked at it made me cry. The second time it made me angry. "

What is a woman, what is a slut, what is a lady? How do you satisfy internal critics, who is one for external critics? The best thing is to do it all at once, until you lose yourself: Rainville's poem represents the far from reality, in this rhythm almost absurd messages that women in our society still reach more or less subtly.

Instagram video about feminism: "Don't be like the others"

"Don't be a whore, don't screw around. Men don't like sluts ”, then:“ Don't be prude, don't be so stubborn, smile more! Make men happy. Be experienced, be sexual. ”This strange demand, which is often misused as a compliment:“ Don't be like the other girls. ”

Who are they, the other girls? What's so bad about them And what does that mean anyway? The video of the high fashion magazine "Girls, Girls, Girls" shows the unrealistic demands against women in two minutes and 51 seconds and is celebrated for its feminism. However, it should not be forgotten that the high fashion industry in particular does not excel through its advocacy for a realistic image of women.

Instagram video with Cynthia Nixon: feminism is “in”

You can celebrate the feminist awakening and the Nixon video - but you should also counter it with a healthy skepticism. Feminism is "in". And almost all of the women shown in the video are still one: Attractive, slim, according to the usual social standards, most of them know. Just like the magazine's Instagram feed.

And still: Which woman has never heard one of the sentences from the video, throw the first high heel. Or the first crocks. Or what she wants to wear. When the video clip on YouTube has finished playing, the algorithm immediately suggests the next video. "20 things to avoid to become a real lady" - "20 things to avoid to become a real lady".

By Anna Grösch

In an interview with fr.de *, author Jagoda Marinic talks about feminism and the empowering nod of power men. In "Tuca & Bertie" two feminist birds fight against sexism. Our series column "Next episode".

* fr.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network

This is not the first time that Nixon has drawn attention to itself with political and socially critical actions. In 2018, she started to become Mayor of New York.

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