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The image below has been making the rounds on my Facebook. It originally popped up on my feed on the page for “It’s Okay to Be Takei”, and has been posted around by about five or six other people. Images travel fast on Facebook.


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Congratulations, Television! You Are Even Worse At Masculinity Than Femininity

by Linda Holmes


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by Maureen Ryan, posted Sep 8th 2011 11:00AM ( Read more... )

I didn't enter the NBC session for the new drama The Playboy Club particularly offended by it. To me, it has looked from the start like the network's straightforwardly network-ish attempt to capitalize on Mad Men, more than anything. Eddie Cibrian plays Nick, a very (very) Don-Draper-like guy who hangs around the club smoking and being ( Read more... )

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I'd be lying if I said that when I heard about a reality TV casting call asking "Do you bend gender roles? Do you go against the norm?" I truly believed a show was going to focus on folks who reject prescribed ideas of gender and sexuality. But just in case there was a show that wanted to feature, to make visible, people who go against the grain ( Read more... )

I would like you to take a moment to imagine the look on my face when I realised that the BBC interviewer in the following clip (transcript below) actually asked Jody McIntyre, a 20 year old man who uses a wheelchair and has cerebral palsy, whether or not the fact that Jody is a “revolutionary” is reason enough for the police to have assaulted him ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, television women were bound by the societal expectations of what women were supposed to be: prim, proper, and most of all, domestic. Audiences had to turn to the big screen in order to see slight variations on that. This became the norm for years to come. Certainly, as societal boundaries placed on women began to dissolve, so did ( Read more... )