In Memoriam: Farrah Fawcett, Warrior for Battered Women
Jun 26th, 2009 by admin
Thank you, Farrah Fawcett, for your legacy. Through your work as the star of The Burning Bed, you brought the issues of wife/girlfriend battering, wife/girlfriend rape and domestic violence, in general, to the attention of millions and millions of people. We will never know how many women have found the support and help they needed to flee their batterers because they saw this movie, felt, maybe for the first time, heard and seen in the watching of it, and so had the courage to call the 1-800 number at the end and ask for help.
Your domestic violence work was just the beginning of all you gave and accomplished in your life. You were a voice for the voiceless, an inspiration to suffering women everywhere, in their homes, struggling in the criminal justice system or in prison. Thank you for the stand you took on behalf of battered, raped women. Thank you for believing us. Thank you for your amazing performance in which you shed your glamorous image in favor of identifying with those of us who have been beaten, battered, and raped by men who said they loved us. Thank you for all you have given to and for women.
Heart
Unique post Heart! As a survivor of domestic violence it is wonderful to know she did so much in this movie in bringing forth awareness!
Farrah was an amazing woman! Thank you for telling of her work on behalf of battered women! She did save lives with that movie, she did have a shining inner life. It’s there for those who care to look!
This is true!
I totally forgot about this re Fawcett too. She was my favorite Angel when I was three/four.
I thought she was completely stellar in that movie where she played Robert Duvall’s wife too! - “The Apostle” ! She played a pastor’s wife.
I loved her in that,she was so believable. I was so impressed how she nailed such a role–I remember really thinking wow. It made me feel she must have alot of compassion and humanity for all kinds of women, women “different” from how she was perceived.
I like how odd and weird/funny she was, she’d always make me laugh when I saw her talk in interviews. So herself.
R.I.P.FarrahFawcett.<3***
Thanks Heart.
Rest in peace, sweet Farrah.
Well, I didn’t have a clue about this side of Farrah’s work. Thank you.
So finally someone has mentioned the unmentionable: Farrah had likely been exposed to the human papilloma virus. Of course, that doesn’t mean for sure that she got it anally.
I’ll never forget being on a listserv for women wanting to discuss a “new view” of women’s sexuality. The posters were a slew of ’sex positive’ sexologists, psychologists, shysters and opportunists who published books, used up university budgets and appeared on talk shows to ‘give women permission’ to have anal sex. Thousands of women have been forced into this gay male practise, by being told they were cold, lesbians (sic), didn’t love him, were boring sex partners, not with-it; that it was safe, fun, FUN (damn you), everyone was doing it. Etc.
I think the rate of HPV is going to be very high in a decade or two. That’s how long it takes to develop those cancers. And it will be women.
However, no one should be conned into thinking the cervical/anal cancer vaccinations will save you. They don’t protect against these cancers. They *somewhat* protect against four of dozens of viruses. Some of which can cause those cancers. But in most women, where there isn’t continually exposure, their bodies clear the virus naturally.
Sparkle can you tell us more?
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=7939402&page=1
Oops, I didn’t put the link in. Thanks.
“This does not mean that she was promiscuous,” noted Dr. Jay Brooks, chairman of the department of hematology and oncology at Ochsner Clinic Foundation and Hospital in Baton Rouge, La. “It simply means that she, at some point in her life, was probably exposed to the human papilloma virus.”
Would it have made any difference if she had been promiscuous?
Unlike men (who find it arousing because of the prostate gland)here’s no logical reason for women to have anal sex, and a lot of very good reasons not to.
And I’ve got news for you…. gay men are going to BDSM clubs in Los Angeles, they are HIV positive by their own admission, and they are bragging about how great these clubs are, how dungeon masters “whip” them, and also they justify it by saying “Oh everyone is there, gay men, straight women, straight men, lesbians…” (They pay $10.00 to get in)– I wondered about who’s making the money on this stuff.
And I guess we’re supposed to believe these degraded pornified men that they know how to “play safe.” I confronted one such jerk recently, and said, “Oh you play safe all right, how come you got HIV?” “Oh that was in my wild youth (he’s 33 now), and I know better now.” Yeah, tell it to a woman who goes to one of those “clubs.”
Warning to all: If you hear someone use the word “play safe” run!! It’s code for BDSM.
You would not believe how these guys talk openly about this, and I’m the only one who objects. The rest of them sit in silence. Men are cowards and dangers to the world
Thanks, Heart. I became a survivor of domestic violence over 20 years ago. When The Burning Bed was first out, I missed it. Then when it first came on re-runs, it was too frightening and painful to see it - I had not yet recovered from my own trauma. Now I have seen it and I too appreciate what Ms. Fawcett did in the role. She was more than one kind of angel and we will miss her.
Can we bring attention to the mass amounts of coverage for Michael Jacksons death vs. the nonexistence of mention of Farrah’s passing?
The uproar of national displacement, for a man who quite frankly, was a pedophile, vs. a woman who dedicated herself to films and a life in opposition and outrage over womens suffering?
I’m personally disgusted.
You and me both, NattyFeak!
Always LOVE to see your name in my mod queue!
xxoo
Good thing Gloria Steinem didn’t die the same day as Michael Jackson.
I was 12 years old when the news hit about Francine Hughes in Michigan. Like her I lived in a small bedroom community outside Lansing. I recall the men condemning Mrs. Hughes after her acquittal, because it wasn’t right that she murdered her husband in cold blood and got away with it. This was two years after my mom walked out on my father because she got fed up with him beating her. When the movie came out my dad refused to watch it because “that bitch should have gone to jail for murdering her husband.” This was back in the days when police wouldn’t touch domestic violence issues with a ten foot cliche. I’m rambling but I loved that movie because it made what typically was a behind closed doors never mentioned in public situation to an in your face we’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it any more public issue. Farrah Fawcett’s death affected me more than MJ’s ever will.
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