Tackling it one show at a time like I did made me feel pretty hopeful. More wrinkles! Lower concentrations of white people! Hooray! HOWEVER….Looking at them all at once shows something different.
Full Story »Fictional Femmes 2011: Movies
Having looked at female characters on network (young, mostly white) and cable television (less young, less white), let us now turn our attention to women in 2011;s biggest movie releases.
Full Story »Fictional Femmes 2011: Cable
For a bit more diversity in age, ethnicity, and overall look, cable is the place. Maybe they’re smaller audiences mean they don’t have to automatically default to “teen to mid-twenties, white”.
Full Story »Fictional Femmes 2011: Networks
Our yearly Power 100 list, while fun, hasn’t really given me the opportunity to look more critically at what’s going on currently. So, I wanted to take a look at 2011 on its own. Who were the women on our screens? What are they like? How did they behave? Is there a common pattern among them?
Full Story »American Horror Story: Afterbirth
I appreciate the clever title of the season finale, “AfterBirth”, following last week’s “Birth” but also feeling like the remnants of something beautiful and frightening at the same time.
Full Story »Revisiting A Special Christmas
As a special holiday gift to you (and because I’m feeling lazy after spending hours compiling next week’s Fictional Femmes of 2011 extravaganza), I’d like to share a a special Christmas story that we originally ran four years ago.
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Books: The Faerie Ring
If you have a Twihard girl in your life, consider giving her The Faerie Ring as a step toward heroine rehabilitation.
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Star Trek 700: The Cage
I appreciated that the female crew members not only got to wear pants, but also weren’t relegated to the skintight jumpsuits that passed as pants for shapely women in later years (I’m looking at you, T’Pol and Seven of Nine).
Full Story »American Horror Story: Birth
I predict that by next week’s season finale Ben will have completely lost it so he replaces Vivien’s occupancy in the loony bin, or he will join the other “living” dead in the Murder House. Either way, he’s not making it out functionally alive at the end.
Full Story »Chuck vs The Hack Off
You know what I’m really looking forward to with the series finale of Chuck? That I’ll be able to listen to that Cake song without having to change the lyrics. Right now I sing about how Chuck is a crappy spy. It’s not my A material but I think it’s funny.
Full Story »The Anti-Gift Guide Strikes Back
Not to belabor the topic, but there is just too much awesome stuff out there to purchase for yourself and/or your victims. Oops. I meant family.
Full Story »M*A*S*H is Always Relevant
On nights I couldn’t sleep. I’d knock on my sister’s wall and if I got the signal, I’d drag a pillow and blanket to her room. Then we’d set up for the nightly M*A*S*H marathon that ran from 11-2am.
Full Story »An Anti-Gift Guide
This is the gift guide that has a bonfire on the beach instead of going to its fascist high school’s prom. This is the gift guide that’s mostly stuff to console yourself with while relatives and family friends ask why you aren’t married/ don’t have kids/ suck so much.
Full Story »Star Trek from the Start
How can I call myself a Trekkie when there are over 700 episodes in existence and I’ve only seen maybe 300 of them? This must be rectified.
Full Story »Once Upon a Time: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
So, there is a simple solution to the Storybrooke problem: everyone in town has to make out with Emma Swan.
Full Story »American Horror Story: Smoldering Children
At the end of at least the last 3 episodes I have sat up at the end and shouted “All right, already! Figure it out, Ben! Vivien! The House is a Bermuda Triangle of Spirits! Get with the program!” as I shake my fist in the air like an old man at the neighborhood kids.
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