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South Park
South Park is an interesting target for evaluation as none of the main characters are female. There are a lot of female secondary characters, the mothers, sisters, and friends of the four main boys and the male secondaries. While female hormonal rage was often played up for laughs in the early seasons, as the show matured so did the depth of the ( Read more... ) -
Family Guy
Family Guy is a superficially similar setup to the Simpsons in that it is an animated family comedy, focused on a family of five, with a bumbling father, overly witty and sarcastic children, and a long-suffering wife who holds it all together. That is about where the similarities end, however. The humor of Family Guy is far more caustic with many ( Read more... ) -
Archer
Archer is an interesting example of modern animation, in that it specifically parodies the classic spy genre in comedic form. To this end, many of the base attitudes and actions of the characters are heavily influenced by classic 60's spy chiche, although certain aspects of the 70's, 80's and 90's make appearances in various episodes. While the ( Read more... ) -
Adventure Time
Adventure Time is a rather strange surrealist cartoon show, nominally aimed at children, although my personal experience is that the watching demographic skews to the late teens and twenties for the most part. Of all the various cartoons that are out there, this one is probably the most consistent in feminist messaging. Every female character in ( Read more... ) -
The Simpsons
When one thinks of modern animation, the Simpsons is inarguably the longest running, and thusly one of the most socially impactful. It is hard to believe that there is anyone out there who is not familiar with the show to some degree, but in case there is someone reading this who has lived in a cave without TV or access to popular media since the ( Read more... ) -
Females of Futurama
For my first analysis, I would like to look at the roles of the female characters on Futurama. This show in particular has in interesting presentation of females. Every male character in Futurama is in one or more ways a complete idiot or waste. The females, on the other hand, are almost universally at least of above average intelligence and ( Read more... ) -
Feminism and Animation
So, I realized that I was trying to approach the re-imagined purpose of this blog totally wrong. The point of doing this blog for this class is to utilize the platform of blogging to get my thoughts and ideas down in a distributable format and push it out there for review. I had been looking at it like I was doing a series of wikipedia edits on ( Read more... ) -
Feminism & the Blogosphere
Hi everyone, and welcome to my classmates from WGS 300 at EKU. As our term project (for lack of a better word) for this class we are required to construct a blog with at least 8 entries focusing on some aspect of feminism. I figured the easiest solution for me was to revive this old thing. At least at the outset, my plan is to do a series of ( Read more... ) -
I'm getting published!
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it before, but one of my stories is actually going to get published.
Site: http://www.demonlovers.info
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Demon-Lovers/112526062217847
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Looking forward to it...
Sherry and mine's 8th anniversary was on Tuesday but she was out of town. So we are doing a little overnight getaway tomorrow night when she gets back into town. The hotel is letting me do an early check-in so I can prep the room a bit. I made a bunch of cheesecake stuffed chocolate covered strawberries and will be dropping those and a bottle of ( Read more... )