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Book store now employing boob greeter
I went to a big national chain bookstore today. As I walked through the front door, I discovered there's now an information desk (or something) up front, very near the door. It was staffed by a pleasant-looking young man wearing a name tag. As I entered, he bestowed a beaming, cheerful smile... on my boobs. ...
Written on May 26th, 2010 in Featured Articles,Real Life
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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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Why film schools teach screenwriters not to pass the Bechdel test
While writing Female characters exist to promote male leads for network profits, I realized something I had never quite put together in so many words. It's important enough to deserve its own article (thanks, Bellatrys!), so here it is: my screenwriting professors taught me not to write scripts that passed the...
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Nobody knows anything, but don’t tell the financiers
Reader Jack Ketch commented on Why film schools teach screenwriters not to pass the Bechdel test something I think deserves more discussion: William Goldman described the phrase “non-recurring phenomenon” in his book The Big Picture, a collection of essays discussing movies with studio execs during the 90s; any...
Written on August 1st, 2008 in Featured Articles,Industry Buzz
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Salt director wrings hands about male love interest’s manliness
Salon found this in "Entertainment Weekly's" report on what groundbreaking feminism the filmmakers behind Salt employed when they gave the lead role written for Tom Cruise to Angelina Jolie: "In the original script, there was a huge sequence where Edwin Salt (the original male protagonist) saves his wife, who's in...
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A Thursday Interruption: Jill Scott’s “Hate on Me,” VV Brown’s “I’m Crying Blood,” Hoku’s “Perfect Day.” Also: Fiona Apple’s “Not About Love”
This video describes my feelings on LIFE. <3 <3 <3 What fun vocals!!!! I fucking love this song. <3 <3 <3 Oh, Fiona Apple. Come back, I love you. <3 <3 <3 In other news: Anwyn talks about cyborgs and innocence in the context of Rihanna’s “Hard,” Katy Perry’s “California Girls,” and Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro.”
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You may be surprised to learn it’s stressful to write at Hathor. I’ve written publicly for decades, and never experienced stress like I do when I write articles here. It’s because you guys expect so much of us – which is at once extremely rewarding and anxiety-inducing. It’s also because you’re a much bigger audience than we used to have. Stagefright, much? We’ve decided to take a page from the Big Blogs and create a new ... READ MORE
Midweek Media: Jane Austen’s Fight Club
I’m going to encourage you all to break the first rule of Jane Austen’s Fight Club, and talk about the “trailer” for Jane Austen’s Fight Club. If you haven’t seen this YouTube meme yet, here it is, with transcription: The vid opens on an idyllic mountain scene, which shifts to a field of flowers. Soft piano music plays. We see two women (I’ll identify them here as Fanny (Price, Mansfield Park) and Lizzie (Bennet, Pride & Prejudice)) walking arm-in-arm through a ... READ MOREWomen going quiet amongst men
You know that enduring stereotype that women aren’t as funny as men? I think I’ve identified part of the problem. I’ve been watching QI, a comedy panel show featuring Stephen Fry as host. Every week, he has four guests who are asked the most obscure questions about all sorts of topics. They gain or lose points depending not so much on how right their answers are as how interesting. And because the four guests are usually comedy people, it’s hilarious. It’s worth ... READ MORE
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