I watched the movie Who’s That Girl? over the weekend. It’s been a couple years, but the film has always left warm fuzzies. Partly, I think this is due to the refreshing main female character – Nikki. Sure, she’s loud-mouthed, obnoxious, a liar, destructive, manipulative, and all sorts of other things. But, I must say, that’s why she grew on me. [...]
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I started the video game Haunting Ground this weekend with a couple of my buddies. It’s one of those “˜explore and hide when in danger’ sort of games. You play Fiona, a young girl who finds herself in a cage where she’ll be eaten”¦ or something possibly much worse. What does a girl do? Well, first off, she needs to escape [...]
I’ve been re-reading the Mode series by Piers Anthony and I came upon an interesting stereotype I had to mention. In Fractal Mode, the group of main characters come to a foreign land where men dominate through strong magic that none of the women possess. They keep their reign through brute force, bullying, and ensuring a society where those with no magic are [...]
Warning: Spoilers abound. After watching X-Men: The Last Stand and Aeon Flux in the same weekend, I’ve come to an observation that has been touched on before with a couple of my friends, but it became very clear after seeing these films. That would be Hollywood’s obsession with badass chicks only getting to have a final showdown… with badass chicks. Let’s start with Storm in [...]
I get in these moods every so often for a good smut book. You know, otherwise known as a romance novel. I’m rather picky when it comes to my selections, but I thought I had found the perfect book when I saw the cover of a woman dressed in knight’s mail. I mean, come on, a woman kicking ass, but also having some [...]
I finished the first season of Sex and the City at a friend’s house tonight and came home with one thought – What’s up with the love thing? Now, granted, this show is mainly about sex instead of love, but in every situation the “˜L’ word came up, it was always the woman who was obsessed with it. My problem? I so [...]
I started thinking back to the old shows after a discussion of an 80s classic, and I came to an interesting realization. The media seems to be obsessed with the contrasting peer characters of that of a “princess” (one who always has to look pretty, often snobby, and usually thinks mostly of boys) and a “tomboy” (hates makeup, athletic, often has a masculine name/nickname, and [...]
