Revolution tends to exclude women
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In Fun^Da^Mental's music video for "Dog Tribe," white working-class men commit racially-motivated violence, white upper-class men (the disinterested politician) practice negligence, Asian men suffer and retaliate, and Asian women (or more like woman) mourn. The sole female figure represented in "Dog Tribe" takes the form of a young veiled Asian woman dressed in black kneeling in front of a grave implied to hold another victim of a hate crime. Her character exists simply to look beautiful and mournful, to grieve quietly and passively while the men take on the valiant responsibility of retributive justice. She is confined to the graveyard sitting in one position amongst the flowers forever, to wallow over the consequences of some injustice without ever being able to do anything about it. Meanwhile, her male counterparts are free to come and go as they wish, taking their moment to grieve but returning to the living world to tangibly enact change. While "Dog Tribe"'s call for revolutionary anti-racist violence is necessary, it's clear that, while they may be useful as a pathos-invoking tool of the revolution or a beautiful reprieve from the political (i.e. Sonya Aurora Madan), women are not included in the concept of a revolutionary.