Those of you who know me already know of my long frustration with the woobification of rich boys who treat everyone around them like dirt. It's bad enough when the excuse is "His daddy didn't love him, so that justifies every bad thing he's ever done in the name of either pleasing his father or taking his understandable resentment of his father ( Read more... )

By now, everyone who lives under a moderately well-situated rock has heard about Anthony Weiner's flashing-via-Twitter scandal. Unsurprisingly, lots of people who agree with his political positions are defending his behavior on the grounds that 1) Republicans do it too and 2) it's a private matter. So far, so expected. But some of his supporters ( Read more... )

I'm leaning more and more toward actually watching X-Men: First Class. It has Moira MacTaggart in it and Mystique and Hank McCoy, in addition to the Xavier/Magneto! Okay, so it does have Havok in it too, but at least his glowing hula hoop powers look funny. The biggest thing holding me back right now is that I am SEVERELY skeeved out by how the ( Read more... )

Like some of my friends, I'm posting female character icons in response to the flowchart of fail.

( Awesome ladies incoming! )

It seems like everybody's talking about the Flow Chart of Fail that got posted approvingly at Jezebel. I am having trouble posting about it coherently, so I'll just lay out the most glaringly obvious problems in a long string: Real women's names used as shorthand for fictional stereotypes, and don't think it's escaped my notice that they're both ( Read more... )

So . . . I'm trying to find copies of the second and third books in the Hunger Games trilogy. Yes, they're in all the major bookstores now, but I can't buy new books, especially not new hardcover books, at the moment, and they haven't made it to the libraries in my town yet. Anyway, it turns out there's a Hunger Games fandom on the internet. And ( Read more... )

It's once again time to discuss my complicated relationship with the Percy Jackson books! I have such mixed feelings about this series . . .

( Spoilers below )