This doc looks at how representations of powerful women reflect society’s anxiety about women’s rights. Which would explain the dearth of Ellen Ripleys and Buffies right now. For god’s sake, we’ve gone back to fighting for access to birth control pills.
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I’ve been researching the styling and construction of kilts for the past few days and decided I should never attend the Highland Games. I’d be arrested for lewd behavior in minutes because men in kilts are hot.
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I’m still not getting totally on board the Valentine’s Day commercial love train. However, I will use it as an excuse to trot out my Curio Cabinet of TV Boyfriends (& Traveling Freak Show*) for a good old fashioned ogling.
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It’s funny to me (funny like “this sausage smells funny”, not funny like Community) that there’s outrage over imposing our current standards of beauty on classic art, but not over imposing them on real women who exist in our real world.
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These are my top ten Valentine’s Day cards you can give while maintaining your self-respect and general contempt for this dumb ass holiday.
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PRG has seen us through a lot of changes and challenges in the past five years. Now, there’s another big one coming up (no, it’s not a baby, so stop asking).
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Jennifer Sulkin weighs in on the Google hate fest that has been tearing the internets apart.
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I keep trying to use Pink Raygun’s anniversary as an excuse to buy stuff for myself. But, it’s you who really deserve the anniversary gifts. After all, you’ve been putting up with us for all these years.
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The Elderly Geek is tired of being meek and mild-mannered. It’s giving her indigestion. She has decided to enumerate ten things in life that jerk her chain, hoping folks will get their acts together and stop pissing her off.
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Seems like these days a woman can barely start a scholarly discussion about self-objectification and Leia’s metal bikini without a slew of other women accusing her of slut shaming.
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When I pay attention, sometimes I learn things. These are my top five things I’ve learned with Pink Raygun since launching in 2007. Why, yes, there ARE zombies.
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This week, the 50th anniversary commemorative edition of A Wrinkle in Time will be released and Pink Raygun has a copy to give away, along with a $50 Visa gift card.
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A new age is upon us, internet users. It is the time of the cheap and well-designed t-shirt.
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Specifically, Rick Santorum (hello again, buddy) and Newt Gingrich (This is your first time here. Welcome! Help yourself to some bacon bits. Don’t eat them! Sprinkle them on yourself).
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This past Sunday, with the company of a very understanding cohort I had the opportunity to engage in some live sci-fi via Gideon Productions Advance Man, the first part of Mac Rodgers’ HoneyComb Trilogy.
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I want to go to this place where everything is turquoise and there are metal skeleton horses, robot dogs and robot teddy bears.
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Including the end of the world, which I expect to be about as anti-climactic and lame as Y2K, Harold Camping, and Roland Emmerich’s 2012.
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