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.
How Come It’s Never Joss’ Fault? The Scapegoating of Female Creators in Pop Culture
I got into one of those discussions about Buffy the other day. You know, the one where you get all excited because you’re talking to a fellow fan and you want to bask in the greatness and talk about some of the terrific characterisation that went on, and then, well, they have to bring up [...]
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TRANSform Me
Alisa at PostBourgie writes about a new VH1 show featuring a team of trans women traveling around the United States to make over cis women in need. I hadn’t heard of TRANSform Me before; this is how VH1 describes it: TRANSform Me is a makeover show in which a team of three transgender women, led [...]
...read more16 and Pregnant
Jessica Grose has a great piece up on Slate today about the MTV show 16 and Pregnant, asking whether it actually deters teenagers from pregnancy or whether it’s simply exploitative (or both). I’ll admit to watching (and enjoying, at least partly) the first season of the show, but after watching the Janelle episode that Grose [...]
...read moreThe Super Bowl and Madison Avenue Misogyny
A guest post by Kate. Kate is a freelance writer and full-time law student. Follow her @itscompliKATEd on Twitter. Superbowl ads are sexist. This is well trod ground: Marketers objectify women and play up stereotypes in order to sell things to (heterosexual) men. But we knew this year was going to be special. This year [...]
...read moreGirls vs. Boys
via The Awl, this is one of the worst articles I’ve read in a long while. The New York Times decides to take a look at the girls vs. boys TV networks Lifetime and Spike – and concludes that men are sex-addicted idiots and women are fat, fearful and desperate world-savers. No, really: We can, [...]
...read moreShocker: “The Biggest Loser” promotes unhealthy weight loss practices
Apparently contestants on The Biggest Loser exercise for six hours a day, dehydrate themselves until they urinate blood, and push their bodies to extreme limits, sometimes causing them to pass out or be otherwise injured. Two contestants were taken to the emergency room on the first episode of the current season. Gawker summarizes the Times [...]
...read moreDisabled Character: Able-Bodied (Emaciated) Actresses Only, Please
Laurie and Debbie say: Cross Blogged on Body Impolitic We had our attention brought to this casting call for Stargate: Universe, a Stargate franchise TV show due to debut in October of this year as a movie, and then a regular TV show on the Syfy channel. [ELEANOR PERRY] (35-40) and quite attractive. A brilliant [...]
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