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Links of Great Interest: XENA + GABRIELLE = OTP

Maria

GayProf and Historiann talk about making US history more relevant.

TransGriot reflects on being an “unwoman.”

HAHAHAHA the machines will take over the world…

This children’s book features a clever heroine and a stuttering prince.

Fashion just got a little bit more inclusive.

Single Black women only have a median income of $5??? Well… that, like, explains my LIFE.

SOMEONE WAS RACIST ON THE INTERNET AND MIGHT GET PUNISHED FOR IT!!! Frikkin’ amazing!!! (That last link is mostly useful as a link round-up kinda way — ...Read More

Women buy 55% of movie tickets

Jennifer Kesler

Recently, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) came out with some earth-shattering stats that reveal women buy 55% of all theater tickets. That’s women, as in, not men. You can download the pdf of stats here, or read coverage from MovieCityNews and Women and Hollywood. From Melissa Silverstein:

I know exactly why the 2009 numbers increased.  If you follow the business it’s not too hard to figure it out.  The reasons are New Moon and The Blind Side ...Read More

Blonds and Blood

Jennifer Kesler

Does it seem to anyone else there’s a disproportionate number of blond white women playing victims and corpses in TV crime shows? This may be partly due to TV’s disproportionate representation of white people in general, but white lead actresses frequently have hair colors other than blond.

While I acknowledge I’m not going to sit down with stacks and stacks of DVDs and catalog all the victims and their coloring, I have been watching DVDs of Criminal Minds lately. Even accounting ...Read More

Media Monday: Fruit of the Loom’s “Date Night” Commercial

Revena

Media Monday this week focuses on a commercial for Fruit of the Loom products. View it embedded below, or click this link to see it on YouTube.

And now, transcript time!

Fruit of the Loom made my life a little easier this week by posting the lyrics to the song in this commercial, “Date Night,” on the website that highlights their current ad series, http://www.fruitguyfans.com/. But, since the site is in Flash and I can’t link to a specific subpage ...Read More

The hard-boiled man-hating chick trope

Jennifer Kesler

She’s introduced with a surprise reveal shot, in that our intrepid TV protagonists have just come upon a bounty hunter, sheriff, military officer, etc. and surprise! Jaws drop – she’s a woman. She scowls or smiles ironically at our heroes. What’s that on her shoulder? Why, it’s a huge chip! Now she’s rolling her eyes and making a wisecrack about how they need to pick their jaws up off the ground and get over her being a woman. Soon, she’ll ...Read More