July 2011
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Dressed to Kill: Mister America
jessfink:
rosalarian:
“Continuing my cross-dressing sexualized superheroes series by request, I attempt to dispel the idea than pants = not sexualized. This is Marvel’s new Miss America, and I’ve talked about her design before. I’m both disappointed and thrilled with how Mister America turned out. On the one hand, that ‘stache! On the other hand, he has more room in his pants than his female...
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Dressed to Kill
rosalarian:
Whenever I complain about how females are portrayed in mainstream superhero comics, inevitably half a dozen people pop up to tell me this:
“Men are idealized in comics, too.”
Yes. Yes they are. I am aware of this. While I think the idealism is harmful, that isn’t actually what I have a problem with. (Well, not the main thing.) Because while the men are impossibly muscular and...
Smack My Bitch Up analysis part 2
So we have music video with drug use, violence, and sexual assault and it gets banned.
Why?
There are so many other videos with drug references in the lyrics, people getting beaten up, people talking about their sexual prowess and people talking about sexually assaulting women. So why is it that this video gets not just censored, but banned from airplay until late at night?
Well, for one thing...
Smack My Bitch Up analysis part 1.
Trigger Warning: the following video contains drug use, sexual assault, and violence.
So normally, I comment on kids shows and things of that nature, but someone posted a link to the song “Smack My Bitch Up” by The Prodigy. This will be posted in two parts: one is a description of the video, for those who might not want to watch it. The second will be the real reason I think it was...
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Gendering Smurfette
zoearcher:
The fact that they made a live action/computer animated film of The Smurfs doesn’t bother me. I don’t feel like they’re betraying my childhood, because, personally, I never cared about the Smurfs. I didn’t as a child, I didn’t during my teens, and I didn’t engage in ironic discussions about the logistics of Smurf cosmology during my twenties. So make a movie about the Smurfs. Layer it...
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What do you think of Taylor Swift?
whatfreshhellisthis:
-Anonymous
I think many things of Taylor Swift.
I think she uses the misogyny rampant in our culture to her advantage and she does it very well. A permanently virginal girl-child all in white who writes songs about ever lasting heterosexual love, confirmed in matrimony, and the nasty, nasty b*tches who try to ruin that dream for her (either by dating the boy she wants...
Anonymous asked: How do you feel about Katy Perry?
*Specifically how the main focus is almost always on her chest
*Specifically how the main focus is almost always on her chest
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Why I Want a Wife
by Judy Syfers (1971) A wickedly humorous introduction to the sex roles defined by conventional marriage
(Editors Note: This classic piece of feminist humor appeared in the premier issue of Ms. Magazine and was widely circulated in the women’s movement.)
I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am A Wife.
And, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother. Not...
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“The black best friend deals with the protagonist’s mess and offers unsolicited...”
– We at feministfilm love Critical Tvtropes Studies, especially concerning race, class, and gender, and looking critically at our favorite shows.
We love Donna, obviously, and I do believe that she is complex and increasingly well-developed. But, yeah, she’s full of tropes and stereotypes.
I think...
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“You can’t be a full tranny every day of the week,” Katy Perry says in this...”
– This is why I absolutely fucking hate Katy Perry. Didn’t she recently claim to be an ally to the gay community? Yet at the same time, she not only uses the slur “tranny” but uses it to describe herself in costume mode. Because trans people don’t face constant oppression and can just take a day off...
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“Recently I was struck by two different dialogues on Facebook. One was about...”
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“well-behaved women seldom make history”: redefining what it means to be bad
(via stfuetiquetteblogs)
relevant.
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Some of my favorite feminist books on my shelf...
flatjean:
quidditchisnotjustagame:
newwavefeminism:
feministslut:
So I have a pretty extensive collection of books… Here are some of my favorite books on feminist/by feminist I own. I recommend bugging the hell out of your library if they don’t have them. I didn’t put any fiction books on the list or history ones, maybe I’ll write up other lists for those. I did put this list together of...
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Fuck yeah, feminists!: Help Shut Down a Pro-Rape... →
Just got this in my email from a Danielle D.:
I, and others are in need of help. There is a facebook page called, “Riding your girlfriend softly, cause you don’t want to wake her up” and I have scrambled some support against this page. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Riding-your-Girlfriend-softly-Cause-you-dont-want-to-wake-her-up/185788198142358 This facebook page is riddled with rape jokes,...
