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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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”.
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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?
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I went years without cable because watching a staticky picture was OK with me, even when my leg formed part of the antenna. Now, I’m headed back there.
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Some red flags should have gone up for someone when the Muppet I most related to was Boober from Fraggle Rock.
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At FAO Schwartz, you can turn yourself into a Muppet. Or you can just create your own wackadoo Muppet, but it’s way more fun to Muppetize yourself and the ones you love.
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