This won't be a great surprise to most, but for now, I'm done with this show. I don't know if I'll come back to it or not, whether I'll watch the end of the season some other time, but for now, I have to quit watching something that is just making me unhappy ( Read more... )

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I've lately been rewatching Judging Amy. I'm sure some people on here will be too young to remember that show, while for others it's a dim memory, but anyway. It aired during that glorious time in the 90s when everything was okay and nothing hurt, the time I grew up in and will forever secretly long for. It was also very feminist. It has lines like ( Read more... )

I don't really have the ability to be impartial about this ep, so I'll only say this: I enjoyed Doris and Steve. That's all.

"While I want to believe we've arrived at and are living in the feminist idyll so hard-sought for and dreamed of by previous generations of women and men, I avoid most mainstream entertainment, particularly comedy, because frankly, I find it dehumanizing to be told over and over again that sex and sexual appeal are all, or the most important things ( Read more... )

Transformative art, at its core, is about appropriation; the appropriation of characters, stories, and bodies. Transformative porn, and this is why it bumps up against the fourth wall so often, is about putting those bodies in motion. The result of this is porn that comes with a shared understanding. In a culture so very obsessed with visual porn ( Read more... )

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