Ladies and stuff
Shoutout for The Unpopular Woman Love Post.I know some people in fandom would ask "why is this here, why do we need to love every single woman character?" To which I would answer, "We don't, but I think the point is less liking everyone on this list and more responding to backlash and trying collectively to counteract the fact that ( Read more... )

Reviews say it's great, I like Natalie Portman, I plan to see it, but I fully expect to find it disappointing considering it seems to be about the good, pure, virginal Odette tapping into the evil, "visceral and real" (read: sexual) Odile and God knows a woman can't try to reconcile both of those things without going bugfuck insane amirite.

I don't like to talk about myself on LJ, but I don't know how else to approach this subject, so here goes.

It used to be that one of the most common critiques I got on the girls I drew was "you need to make her thinner." ( Art, body image, and trying to navigate between the two. )

Four other people on your f-list have probably linked this by now, but I'm stepping up to bat anyway.

This is a flow chart for determining whether female characters are well-written/worthwhile or not. Now I will tell you why this chart is bad ( Read more... )

I've been thinking that the Bechdel Test doesn't really apply to video games, does it? Whether or not a game passes or fails if often really contingent on whether or not the main character is female. There are cutscenes and bits of inconsequential dialogue, but the majority of a game's conversations tend to take place between the main character ( Read more... )

demeure and I are probably going to make a blog now. It will be about video games and ladies, with talk of homolust and not white people where appropriate. It will be decidedly not Border House. We hope. Either way, we are hoping to replace every use of the word "discourse" with the words "totally sweet" and maybe talk about nice things and not ( Read more... )

So: Catherine.The internet is excited while I remain frowny in Atlus' general direction ( Read more... )

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Someone help me articulate why this article makes me so angry (Aside from the fact that everything makes me so angry). All I can specifically point to so far is: For me personally, as I have alluded to many times, being able to roleplay as a woman ( Read more... )

It annoys me that the discussion about -isms and policing and dogpiling on LJ always gets boiled down to two perspectives: "rich white uni girls competing over who can be the most liberal" vs. "-ist ignorant assholes who care more about their squee being harshed than injustice in the world." I do think there is a space in the middle, and I think ( Read more... )

So it's really no secret that Warcraft is a giant bucket or race/genderfail, but I did little stat-analyses and character breakdowns for a couple of other games and series, so I decided I'd do one for the Warcraft universe as well ( Read more... )