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So this is a really interesting speech and I love that it's about *words.* And Joss supplies "genderist" as an analog to "racist" to contextualize, to acknowledge this whole history up until "we realized it was wrong"--and, here's the thing, HISTORY ISN'T LIKE THAT ( Read more... )

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Okay first off this film could be somebody's thesis, for serious: it draws heavily not only on fairy tales but on fairy tale studies. Add in the direction by Catherine Hardwicke who I swear has a superpower for taking on source material that can be painfully mysoginist and then unleashing her own brand of feminism all the fuck over it? Just yum ( Read more... )

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The new Lapham's just came out! Even better, their website features an excellent essay by Francine Prose on Original Sin and the place of women in religion:

Almost as soon as anyone (mostly women, for obvious reasons) started noticing or asking how the world’s religions viewed their female adherents, women-and I would assume some men-either had to ( Read more... )

She inculcates all her YA lit with feminism! Like the sparkles on the tiara Princess Mia wore in the Princess Diaries, Allie's fun rules and Em's sudden plunge into the world of high fashion are just the bait to draw readers to the real message behind my bookswhich is the same message I was taught growing up, and the message I feel is so important ( Read more... )

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Via Miss Cellania.

Snip:

Recently, in large French city, a poster featuring a young, thin and tan woman appeared in the window of a gym. It said:

¨THIS SUMMER DO YOU WANT TO BE A MERMAID OR A WHALE?¨

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Mermaids don't exist. If they did exist, they would be lining up outside the offices of Argentinean psychoanalysts due to identity crisis. ( Read more... )

Echo is a blank slate; she is programmed by what others want her to be ( Read more... )

Elizabeth: The Golden Age is one of the stupider films I've sat through in a while. Why did I sit through it? Because Clive Owen was in it, that was why. I didn't learn from the first film, with its exceedingly oversimplified Essex Rebellion or misplaced speeches. (Yeah, the really good one about how Elizabeth has the body of a woman but the heart ( Read more... )