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How to critique the critics
Revena recently pointed us to an article on the Official Shrub.com Blog about criticisms of criticism, and it got me started thinking about some of the criticism this site receives from defenders of the status quo, people who love the shows we're analyzing, and people who feel the need to leech off other sites'...
Written on December 31st, 2006 in Featured Articles,Ponderables
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Joss Whedon and feminist cookies
There's a lot of controversy surrounding Joss Whedon and his feminist credentials. Is he a feminist icon, or a horrid misogynistic racist masquerading as an ally? It's usually safe to say the answer is probably somewhere in the middle, but I have a slightly more specific response. When we talk about whether...
Written on September 17th, 2008 in Featured Articles,Ponderables
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Why discriminate if it doesn’t profit?
There's a question that comes up every time I tell my story about how I slowly realized that Hollywood didn't want movies/shows for, by or about women to profit. To sum up that story, what tipped me off was that whenever film students pointed out how movies/shows for, by or about women had indeed profited, film...
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Blog Call Out — Frugal Traveler
Black_berry623 calls out the implicit privileges described in Leon Logothetis' 5-dollar-a-day travel plans. Quotes from the post! I've always had a fascination with people who take extended trips and travel cheaply, relying on ingenuity and 'self-reliance' to go from place to place. I read Red Dust which is...
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The misogynist who gets the girls is a male fantasy
Ever since SBG wrote about "How I Met Your Mother" recently, I've been thinking about this character I see on screen everywhere. He's mean to women. The women know they're being mistreated. And yet they can't get enough of being used and abused by him. He doesn't exist. Let's just dispel that myth right away....
Written on April 22nd, 2008 in Featured Articles,Ponderables
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Midweek Media: an anti-rape campaign that focuses on men
BitterBuffalo has found an anti-rape campaign that focuses on what men can do to prevent rape. This should be the norm, but instead most campaigns focus on what women can do to avoid rape, which is sick not only because it puts the responsibility on the targets of crime rather than the criminals, but also because when criminals are denied one target, they just move onto another. So there is worse than no point in advising the targets of crime ... READ MOREThe choice to wear the niqab or hijab
Equality is largely about everyone having equal choices and options. In the US in the 70s and 80s, some (educated, career-prepped, privileged) feminists spoke out against “housewives” and their choice to make a career of managing the household and/or raising kids responsibly. This was wrong. It was fair to point out that some women felt they had no choice but to be “housewives.” It was fair to point out social and economic factors that discouraged women from any other occupation. ... READ MOREFYI: better spam control features?
Dear readers, we’ve been aware for some time that Akismet, the default WordPress anti-spam solution, is catching quite a few legitimate comments in its spam filters. We always catch and post those before they get automatically deleted, but it’s no fun having a comment sit in the mod queue until we get to it, when there’s a lively discussion going and you’re trying to make a contribution to it. We’re currently testing a succession of plugins to see which ones will ... READ MOREWhy did the mean admin not post my comment?
Here’s a newsflash: if you are overflowing with male privilege and don’t realize it, you’ll have some trouble getting your comments through moderation. Why? Because your rights are not more important than the rights of all our other readers, and I won’t tolerate your offending them with your bullshit just because you have been assured all your life that your bullshit doesn’t smell. It does. You have been lied to. Let’s look at an example. In a recent post about The ... READ MORE
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