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.
Full Story »Top 5 Things I’ve Learned from Pink Raygun
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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50 Years of A Wrinkle in Time: Win 50 Bucks and A Book
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.
Full Story »No Such Thing As Too Many T-Shirts
A new age is upon us, internet users. It is the time of the cheap and well-designed t-shirt.
Full Story »Letters from a Concerned Zombie: Dear GOP Candidates
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).
Full Story »Theater: Advance Man
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.
Full Story »Fabulous Sci-fi for 2012
I want to go to this place where everything is turquoise and there are metal skeleton horses, robot dogs and robot teddy bears.
Full Story »Top 5 Things I’m Looking Forward to in 2012
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.
Full Story »Fictional Femmes 2011: The Big Picture
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 »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.
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 »Killing Cable
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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