The Itty Bitty Titty Commitee

Completely edgy and riveting this film “The Itty Bitty Titty Committee” Directed by Jaime Babbit is a complete eye opener on the face of feminism that should be displayed out more. Taking place in Los Angeles, California “Ana” who is played by Melonie Diaz comes across the CIA whose meaning is Clits in Action after witnessing Sadie who’s played by Nicole Vicious tag across the front of a Plastic Surgeons office building where she works and inviting her along to go to one of their meetings. Ana who decides to go, and demonstrates how confused she is by their ideas and can truly show how confused women are in reality of how the media affects their daily lives without even being noticed of it. This small group of radical feminists who consists of other 3 members :Meat who’s the one behind all the artwork they display, Aggie who’s a transgender male and allowed in under the exception of having a clit, and finally Shula Smith who I think is the most radical of all 5 girls but speaks with certainty truth and facts.
This group of feminist’s main objective is to teach and empower women to voice their opinions and open their eyes to how the media has them portrayed. Although they are particularly much too radical for my taste they definitely made amazing statements of how undervalued and unappreciated women are in society. There’s one scene in the movie where they make a replica of Angelica Davis with a sign below her saying “Angela David never got the props she deserves THANK YOU ANGELA! Women like you changed the world- C (I) A and place her in a public park as a monument to honor what she did for women and place a sign below a memorial for Frank Putnam Flint saying “THIS MAN WAS A SLAVE OWNER AND RAPIST”. They do several attempts to expose themselves through the media and community to push forth their ideologies of the CIA and realize the only one visiting their website is they themselves. At this point in the movie they decide that they need their actions to speak louder and show their true ultra radical side. They start coming together with the man help of Ana who gives them a blueprint of their plan to make themselves be known nationwide.
Ana in this film represents to me the majority of girls, completely confused and unaware of her social and media surroundings and the negative impacts. Her own co-worker suggests to her to get a “boob job” and how much it will make her feel better after Ana is feeling down due to her breakup with her girlfriend. Like many of us we always seem to have that little devil speaking into our minds and giving us terrible advice on how or what makes us feel better. Not many girls are fortunate enough to have come across a Sadie in our lives and enlighten us to a better understanding of how the society we live in has been built to oppress us and make us into sexualized objects and not be seen for our own individuality and the intellectual capacity we have and are capable of.
The CIA exposure nationwide was the most riveting part of the whole film. The statement they made was completely bold. They constructed a large penis and placed it over the National Monument in Washington DC and on the day of their 125th anniversary with live viewing through a talk show and the large penis explodes and. I know many will think that what does that statement mean anyway? Well by this they are trying to break down one the symbolic patriarchal imagery of men being the rulers. Although this movie had its ultra radical moments its message was not too farfetched with everything that I’ve been learning through my Woman’s Studies class and Girl’s Studies. To open up our eyes and view the imagery that the media and society has over women and girls and how through learning and social and political empowerment girls in this generation can fight and continue the struggle that will need to come to an end one day. This movie was completely riveting and anytime or day I will recommend for a young lady to watch and of course under adult supervision since it does contain certain explicit sexual scenes. I hope to show this movie to my youngest sister so she won’t continue to let MTV dictate her wardrobe and self esteem about herself. I was left in complete awe and hope that some of you will give yourselves the privilege to watch this movie.