May 17, 2012 During times of great social upheaval, it can often seem safer to say nothing. You get noticed less. You piss off fewer people. You go around making sure the trains run on time. You make your dollars and go home and stuff them in the mattress and keep your head down and […]
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I had somebody complain about my post on The Cabin in the Woods, saying that, yanno, not EVERY book or film needs to be some great feminist manifesto. Not every book is ABOUT feminism, they said. Which kinda made me wonder if they knew what “feminism” meant. Cause this is all it is, folks: feminism
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Note: Spoilers ahoy When I walked in to watch The Cabin in the Woods, I expected a total subversion of the genre. I was giddy at the idea of taking all the old horror movie tropes and fucking with them. I looked forward to the blonde who wasn’t stupid, the virgin who totally had a
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I’ve been thinking a lot about women and power. J. and I went to see John Carter last week, but this isn’t really a rant about John Carter, which has its own issues. What particularly struck me was when J. pointed out that he was surprised to see so many women background characters in the
Every once in a great while, somebody makes a movie just for me. I’d grown so accustomed to seeing bad movies that I forgot they actually made good ones. That’s why Hanna came as such a surprise. Hanna is the story of a girl who’s grown up in the woods in the far north, raised
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… the nearest Meetup group that shows up when ones searches for “feminism” is in Louisville. I suspect searching for something like “women’s studies” would end up with similar results. There is a gay Christians group, however. Go figure. You’ve got a long way to go, Ohio.
Blah, blah, blah… But say it enough times and maybe folks will start to look a the world a little differently. Can’t change something if you don’t know what’s broken.
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You know what Buffy did when she had to choose between the guy she wanted and saving the world? She fucking killed the guy. Duh. Sometimes you have to kill what you love to save the world. That’s a real story. Ripping off your shirt to show off your sparkle and cliff diving because you
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A little stunned that the first woman to win Best Director won in 2010. That’s two-thousand-and-ten, people. At least this happened before the flying cars?