I went to the movies last night, and because the local cinema currently sucks more than usual (summertime) I went to the next time over to do it, and to make the trip worthwhile I watched two movies in a row: Trance and Side EffectsAs it turns out, watching those two right after each other was an interesting experience, since they touched on some ( Read more... )

This list on how to prevent sexual assault puts the blame squarely where it belongs and should be shared everywhere. (Only the first paragraph is in Swedish, the rest is in English.)

This entry was originally posted at http://katta.dreamwidth.org/542898.html and has
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Having a few hours to spare, I thought I'd make an actual post, but I'll save the FFF films for later (I still have lots to see, after all) and instead do what thousands of women have already done and write about Dirty Dancing. It's been very interesting to see the newspaper columns speaking of the writer's basic gut-level love for the film -and ( Read more... )

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
Multifandom music video celebrating women who may no longer be young, but are more awesome than ever.

Performed by Cyndee Peters.

Thanks to: bookelfe and roseveare for the beta - bookelfe in particular was subjected to so many drafts I'm surprised she's still talking to me ( Read more... )

More Swedish old-skool feminisim after my Elin Wägner recommendation; I have also seen the Maj Wechselmann documentary of her intellectual "daughter" Barbro Alving, AKA Bang, AKA Käringen mot strömmen. Now, the film itself was pretty cool, but its subject is even cooler, and since the theater was packed but I was the only one under 50, I feel a ( Read more... )

Happy International Women's Day, everybody! There were poppies on the staff room table yesterday, bought by the shop teacher who apparently does so every year. That's really sweet of him ( Read more... )

I swear to God, every time people wax lyrically about how Buffy turned the horror genre upside down by permitting a girl to fight back, I want to drop a life-sized, Jamie Lee Curtis-shaped anvil on their heads.

Buffy permits the babe to fight back, and that's not the same thing at all. Buffy tells us that you don't have to be smart like Laurie or ( Read more... )

I subscribe to Bang magazine, a feminist forum which is sometimes very thoughtful but sometimes drives me natty. (Most memorably when they talked about slash a couple of years ago ( Read more... )

I decided to rate ten of my favourite TV shows according to the standard that one should never see a film that doesn't have at least one scene with women talking about something besides men. (Who came up with that, anyway?) Now, all ten shows are favourites, so I'm not completely dissing the ones I give a low rating. And in any case, I discovered ( Read more... )