The New Long Duck Dong
I have admittedly never watched 2 Broke Girls, mostly because it looked really fucking stupid (I have, however, watched multiple episodes of The Bachelor and Kourtney & Kim Take New York, so that says something). But apparently in addition to being really fucking stupid, it is also really fucking racist:
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Feminist-Friendly Marriages on Television… Or Not
This is a guest post by Ashley Lauren.
Believe it or not, fighting against patriarchal norms that come with the idea of marriage has been a piece of (wedding) cake compared to what it has taken for me to define myself as a wife in the face of what pop culture tells us wives in heterosexual relationships are supposed to be.
In which I indulge myself in brief admiration of Helen Mirren
I kind of love Helen Mirren. I just think that for the most part, she’s a classy dame. I like that she takes no shit. I like that it looks like she knows how to have fun. I like how outspoken she is about the dangers of gender stereotyping, and the importance of mentors and [...]
...read moreFlick Chicks
A guide to women in the movies, by Mindy Kaling.
...read moreAdieu, adieu to yeu and yeu and yeu
Thanks so much for the opportunity to guest-post here. I wanted to get one more post in about violence and representation of women on screen in student films (aka “I think your character just raped that lady”) but my semester starts this week so it’s back to syllabi and lesson plans for me for now. [...]
...read moreWhat I mean when I talk about movies that bore the everloving shit out of me.
For some masochistic reason, I ended up watching the trailer for The Art of Getting By today. Here’s the official synopsis: THE ART OF GETTING BY stars Freddie Highmore (Finding Neverland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who’s made it all the way to his senior year without ever [...]
...read moreStrength in cupcakes
“Women are girly. Again,” she says. And apparently, that sucks. Writing for the Huffington Post, Peg Aloi bemoans the death of the “tough gal,” as evidenced by blogs about cupcakes, gardening, Hello Kitty, and knitting. Women write about cuddly kitties. BUST is sponsoring a craft fair, holy shit! Feminism has not only come to an [...]
...read moreStep into my film school! The importance of casting in breaking open movie stereotypes
Did any of you catch Matt Zoller Seitz’s pieces on underrated actors and actresses? Given that the purpose of “top ten” lists is to make people argue about who should really be on the list and obviously there are great people not on the list who are underrated, I’m going to say that any list [...]
...read moreThe Greatest Thing That Has Ever Happened To Me In My Entire Life
This video: [Description: Mash-up of Cookie Monster singing "God's Away on Business" by Tom Waits. Lyrics here]. This is even better than the time I won a Babysitter’s Club poster at a raffle in the 3rd grade, which is to date the only raffle prize I have ever won. Via Videogum, which also meets all [...]
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On “The Help”
Haven’t read/seen it, won’t read/see it* and was generally squicked out by the whole premise of the book to begin with — let’s tell a story that is kinda-sorta about race but more about how these nice black ladies helped white women Find Their Voice, from the perspective of white women of course — but [...]
...read moreI Had The Time of My Life–Dirty Dancing, Remakes, and Battles We’re Still Fighting
Monday night I went to a screening of Dirty Dancing hosted by Jezebel, benefiting the New York Abortion Access Fund, and featuring a Q&A session with the film’s screenwriter and co-producer, Eleanor Bergstein. Is there any better way to spend a Monday evening than watching one of your favorite childhood movies on the big screen [...]
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