A brave woman shares her story of rape with the international press. Egyptian activists subjected to “virginity” tests.
More on Walmart’s sex discrimination law suit.
Duke Nukem: kinda fail.
Paul Taylor‘s Wapsi Square: SHIT JUST GOT REAL. For reals, though, what I <3 about Paul’s writing is that rape is not the only big bad in this scene: that Brandi would have to watch them torture Jin, that three girls would have to choose between suicide and burning to death, that this torture of innocents was so horrific it knocked the world off its temporal axis… wow.
Elizabeth Taylor: An AIDS activist to remember.
Gabrielle Union talks about why she supports Planned Parenthood.
Republicans try to intimidate a university professor
Portman’s dancing double from Black Swan wants recognition. I wonder if Mila Kunis had one as well?
From SunlessNick: No, you cannot see your mother because she is paralyzed. Ummm what?
From Casey:
I don’t know if this DeviantArt link will count for anything, but it’s a fan-fic about a gender-bent Lelouche from Code Geass…I really loved it just ‘cuz I wanted Lelouche to be a girl and imagined him as such because, y’know DAT DEARTH OF FEMALE LEAD CHARACTERS (even though anime/manga has a better ratio than western works) but this comment by Skypirating bugs me and I think warrants discussion:
“I can’t see how switching his gender will change the story in any way. It’s not an interesting plot twist, or any kind of plot twist at all – unless his personality were to change, in which case he would be a different character and the gender-bending would be pointless.”
I’m not eloquent (and too cowardly) to leave a reply explaining why just switching Lelouche’s gender and nothing else is interesting enough but maybe my fellow Hathorites could take a crack?
From Sylvia: Jessica Verday refuses to make a m/m love story into an f/m.
Girl friendships and movies that (may) rock.
9 yr old loses leg, saves sister’s life. READ IF YOU WANNA CRY A LITTLE.
GODDAMMIT. I officially withdraw my naming the MLP good examples of friendship.
WomanistMusings calls out Bitch Magazine for not including WOC under the “mommy blog” label.
Scott Adams: It’s hard out there for a dick.
Pixar will finally have its first female lead.
From MC: A list of formidable female characters.
Jennifer Garner to play Mrs. Marple. Yuuuuuuuck.
A woman enjoying sex changes the rating of the movie.
Oh lord. Labioplasty is a growing trend. Trigger warnings for the linked doc.
From SunlessNick:
A whole department of Salt Lake City’s DMV gathered to mock and abuse a transwoman trying to renew her license - one woman stood up for her.
Congrats to the first legally married lesbian couple! 10 years, baby! That’s tin, aluminum, crystal, or diamond. PRESENT TIME. :does a presents dance:
Things you can’t say when talking politics: “uterus.”
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This. Seeing them have a girl main character leaves me with a well finally, jackasses! feeling instead of a cookie dispensing one, and the sneaking suspicion that she will be the only girl character, and that they will screw it up.
I will still go see it.
Attackfish(Quote) (Reply)
Yeah, the girl Fritz ditched in the desert was literally a bitch. >_>V
And there was also a poodle in that trio of girls Fritz cavorted in the bathtub with (and who could forget ALL COPS literally being pigs?).
Casey(Quote) (Reply)
This reminds me of MovieBob/GameOverthinker review of Up and how he LOOOOVES Pixar because (as opposed to the animated Disney canon which is about girls (*cough*mostly insipid princesses*cough*) their movies are all about MEN doing MANLY THINGS and MALE BONDING and derp derp derp
(yeah, ‘cuz movies about guys doing guy-stuff is in terribly short supply, amirite?[/snerk])
Casey(Quote) (Reply)
And never mind that for the past twenty-five Disney theatrical animated features (skipping Fantasia 2000, of course), seventeen have had male leads. Eighteen if you count Stitch as the main character of his movie.
Skemono(Quote) (Reply)
I guess Disney animated features are girl-centric ‘cuz they usually have song and dance numbers.[/roll-eyes]
Casey(Quote) (Reply)
Wait, you mean having a character with boobs sit around next to the main character doesn’t make the movie about a girl? I thought if the movie had a girl in it at all that was enough, right!? /S D:
I’m wondering what universe these people live in where they think Disney is all about teh girls. Most of my favorite Disney movies are NOT about girls because Disney likes to tell me the girls have to be princesses while boys get space adventure, go to Atlantis, get turned into llamas, fly on golden eagles, fly in houses, be the cuter robot, be race cars, have non-defensive super powers, scare children, make children laugh, live past the opening credit sequence, have a life outside romance, be an English-speaking chef in Paris, be a rat who is the greatest chef in Paris, have toys that aren’t Barbies…yeah, I’m really seeing that downside to Disney men.
OTOH, it’s great to idolize Disney women! But it’s a good thing most of their stories end at or before the wedding, because fast forward a few more years and the women that those movies are about will probably die tragically after having at least one child and be conveniently out of the picture for said children, probably daughters, to be raised by their well-meaning fathers until THEY TOO can find the LOVE OF THEIR LIFE, get married, and start the necessary narrative cycle all over again! Yay women!
The Other Anne(Quote) (Reply)
In a burst of optimism, could it be that the story being planned is one with a significant level of flashback, and that’s where Jennifer Garner comes in?
SunlessNick(Quote) (Reply)
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