The Silence Breakers
The Me-Too movement starts in 2017 is definitely a great revolution in the feminist movement. It is a movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault, and it has a great impact till now globally.
This image is the cover of Time magazine for the person of the year 2017, which is about the silence breakers who bravely stood out and spoke in the Me-Too movement.
Analysis Method: Barthes’s concept of myth
Barthes takes Saussure’s schema of signifier/signified= sign and adds to it a second level of signification. Materials have both primary signification (denotation) and secondary signification (connotation), and the sign of primary signification becomes the signifier in a process of secondary signification.
The Primary Signification:
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Five ladies in black are sitting or standing in different positions, with their eyes staring straight ahead to the camera.
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The five ladies on the cover are Ashley Judd, Susan Fowler, Adama Iwu, Taylor Swift and Isabel Pascual.
The Secondary Signification:
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Sexual harassment and assault issue is very general in our society, it happens to anyone in any positions
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Women are awakening in the patriarchal society.
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Everyone can be the silence breaker
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This image is a tribute for the women who suffered sexual harassment and assault and salute to the silence breakers in the society
Implications
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2017 is a year of feminism, more and more people are having the knowledge for equal right in gender.
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The Me Too movement did not start randomly, it has been simmering for year, decades, and centuries.
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The Me Too movement is the historical inevitability.