Pirates of the Caribbean II and the Tradition of Racial Oppression
I was very excited to see Pirates of the Caribbean II: The Dead Man’s Chest Friday night; I loved the first film and used to work at the Magic Kingdom theme park where I frequented the Florida’s...
View ArticleFeminist SF Carnival: 4th Edition
Welcome to the Fourth Edition of the Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Fans! We’ve got quite a collection here this time, a whole host of topics organized by medium: Comic Books and...
View ArticleI Was A Teenage Feminist
Has anyone seen this? I hope a local library has it because the individual purchase price is a little steep and it’s not screening anywhere here soon. See a YouTube clip of the documentary here. And here.
View ArticleVideo: Damsels, Vixens & Buff Guys: Sexism in Video Games
If you want, you can view the trainwreck of comments here.
View ArticleSilent Hill Movie
You would think that a movie that has women as the main protagonists would be a progressive step forward in terms of the portrayal of women in film. With Silent Hill, you would be wrong. I went into...
View ArticleGood Children and Better Women: Lessons Learned from Nanny McPhee
On New Year’s Eve, tekanji and I watched Nanny McPhee, a British fantasy movie for children. In the film, the magical Nanny McPhee comes to the Brown Estate to help Cedric Brown, widower and mortician,...
View ArticleBatgirl fights for equal pay!
I knew that there was a reason that I loved Batgirl in the old Batman TV show. Via Feminist Gamers.
View ArticleHollywood, please stop shitting on my childhood
While on vacation, I went to see the Fantastic Four movie (the only reason it was worth it was because it was the first move I had seen in theatres in over a year) and had the dubious pleasure to …...
View ArticleDebunking the "profits come first" myth
If you have ever criticized an ad campaign, commercial, or anything that’s even remotely related to marketing for pushing a bigoted viewpoint, you will undoubtedly have come up against the argument...
View ArticleResponsibility of comedy writers
Although I had never heard of Graham Linehan before, he’s apparently a writer for some fairly popular UK comedies, including one called The IT Crowd. Now, apparently there was a recent episode of that...
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