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Via The Mary Sue.

“Nerds don’t have a problem with women,” said host Larry Wilmore, “they have a problem with change.” He then asked the panelists if the whiny manbabies of the internet are racist, sexist, or just gross gatekeeping nerds, to which Amanat replied, “All of the above.” Killin’ it.

Goodreads Poll Finds that Readers Stick to Their Own Gender

Goodreads recently polled 40,000 British citizens on their reading habits and among the many trends that popped up, the one making the rounds today is all about sex. Namely, the surprising gender divide between male and female readers and the writers they prefer ( Read more... )

The Ladies Vanish by Shawn Wen:

Andrew Norman Wilson was fired from his contracting job at Google for interacting with what he called a different “class of workers.” He had been watching them for months as they exited the office building adjacent to his. Everyday they left at 2 PM (he later learned that their shifts began at 4 AM). “They were ( Read more... )

Writing People of Color (if you happen to be a person of another color

Stop Interrupting Me: Gender, Conversation Dominance, and Listener Bias

Finally got to watch it tonight, and here was the conversation on the opening sequence ( Read more... )

So this was the first action movie this summer that I loved without reservation. It was good writing, good acting, gender dynamics that made me SO HAPPY, POCs everywhere...yeah. ALL OF THE FEELS ( Read more... )

Elizabeth: The Golden Age is one of the stupider films I've sat through in a while. Why did I sit through it? Because Clive Owen was in it, that was why. I didn't learn from the first film, with its exceedingly oversimplified Essex Rebellion or misplaced speeches. (Yeah, the really good one about how Elizabeth has the body of a woman but the heart ( Read more... )

Official site here. More trailers here.

Frankly, the game graphics are blocky and unappealing. The anime looks awesome though--I wouldn't mind watching that.

The cynic in me has to ask the following though: why is it we have a badass fully-clothed female game character but we know she's gonna get burned at the stake? Just curious.

So I'm reading the NEA "To Read or Not To Read" report. Here are some thoughts ( Read more... )

Okay apparently this has been out a while but I missed it. The Gender Genie uses algorithms to predict the gender of authors. Apparently I write fiction like a female but blog like a male. I am deeply entertained.