I love the Fast Furious franchise. I love it to tiny bits and will keep on spending money on it by going to the movies to watch it, by buying the DVDs (blurays, whatever I need to) and just generally talking about it.

I like this series for its simplicity (CARS, ACTION, more CARS and OMFG! Homoerotic subtext.) But I love it for its casting. I'm ( Read more... )

Gender and race are always hot topics in fandom, lately it seems to have exploded in a shower of rage inducing glitter (I have no idea where I’m going with this metaphor). It has been interesting reading the many (and I mean many) posts about culture appropriation, misogyny, willful blindness to women, sexual orientation and the age old question of ( Read more... )

RACE FAIL!!!

Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has the following to say;

I think Hey Hey It's Saturday in its heyday was known for a sense of humour," Ms Gillard said ( Read more... )

Because I’m feeling kind of bemused ( Read more... )

Hollywood decides to recast Asian and Inuit characters with white actors in the live-action adaption of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I wasn't going to talk about this because honestly it isn't anything new for Western media to bypass anyone that isn't white. However, it is really fucked up that they would purposely recast the whole cast as white ( Read more... )

So, I wake up this morning and wow, the anti-China sentiments and hate, dudes, really getting uncomfortable here. You can criticise the way the Chinese administration organised the Olympics, you can even criticise the way the Chinese government didn’t allow complete freedom of press. However, a comment like ‘As long as China doesn’t win’ really ( Read more... )

It is ibarw (Intl. Blog Against Racism Week) week ( Read more... )

So, I have seen about 11 episodes of Heroes, and there are some truly awesome bits to the series - good plot, nice effects and of course HIRO and ANDO! But you know, I just can't get into the series, and I remember commenting to someone awhile back that the portrayal of certain female characters on the show makes me highly uncomfortable. Thinking ( Read more... )