This week's culture round-up

[tea_drinker77]

From Bad Reputation, Inspirational Fictional Feminists: She-Ra. I was obsessed with She-Ra when I was a kid and I don’t think my mother has ever recovered from taking me to see the feature length version in the cinema. She had a middle-ear infection at the time and every time She-Ra and He-Man did their transformation thing, the noise made her

Comments

[baltimoreandme]

The mystical pregnancy trope annoys me too. It has a ghostly counterpart in fandom -- there is a uniformly cringeworthy category of fanfic that turns on making female characters pregnant (by either mystical or non-mystical means).

[andygrrrl]

oh, and don't forget m-preg fic! Which often seems to be another form of the idea that anything women do, men can do better.

[baltimoreandme]

*cringe* I know - pretty awful. (And it's even worse if it's played for laughs.)