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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Somethhing I didn’t get about the Black Swan article – how exactly what Portman ‘lying’ by not thanking Sarah Lane? Does no-one else remember when Hilary Swank managed to forget to thank her freaking HUSBAND? Yes, Portman may have been thinking ‘damned if I’m going to give that spotlight-stealing cow any credit’, but I think it’s far more plausible that she either forget or thought Lane ranked pretty low in people to thank for an ACTING award. That doesn’t make her a liar, or even ungrateful towards Lane for helping her look so good.
Some of the comments in the article and related ones are pretty mean. From what I can gather, Lane simply wants credit as a dancing double as opposed to an extra, but it’s being made out that she’s plotting to steal Portman’s spotlight and somehow detract from her performance as an ACTOR by pointing out she’s not a professional-level BALLERINA.
It makes me think that there’s a higher standard for actresses when it comes to a role that requires a certain degree of physicality to look real. This is a bad example, but did anyone believe that Geoffrey Rush was really a super-talented piano player? As opposed to being given enough instruction to fake it? No? Then why should anyone mind that Portman didn’t actually dance at a proffesional level of ballet all by herself?
Gabriella(Quote) (Reply)
OK, people, I appologize for not sending this link the right way but instead posting it in the comment section. But I just saw this and need to share it with you right now. ;D
Remember how Maria posted a picture of the new Wonder Woman costume last week? Well, here are pics from the actual filming and it’s greatly improved. The pants aren’t shiny anymore and look like they’re comfortable, the boots are red but still flat so that she can run. WW looks actually dressed in this!
http://wonderwomantv.com/5028/clearer-shots-of-the-new-wonder-woman-costume/
M.C.(Quote) (Reply)
I think it is hardly my favorite Wonder Woman costume– I think it is such a no-brainer to hoplite it up, add a few Greek warrior touches– but it is astonishing hot much of an impact those red boots make.
mordicai(Quote) (Reply)
The racism in MLP: FiM is saddening. The series started out so promising, but in the end it has become obvious that the makers just love showcasing their privilege. The case of Zecora was bad enough, but the episode Over A Barrel was just a steaming pile of WTfuckery. Not only are native Americans othered by making them buffalo instead of the pony “default” of the series, but the plot of the episode left me with my jaw on the floor. So, the colonizing white people, sorry, ponies stole a patch of native land to make apple orchards. They were completely in the wrong there, and yet several characters take their side. After the situation has worsened into a big fight (which the buffaloes are apparently losing) they finally reach a “compromise” of the ponies leaving a path through the orchards so the buffaloes can continue to make their traditional annual rampage through it. And the buffaloes get some apple pies. This is all treated as a wonderful lesson about sharing and friendship.
The solution might have been pretty good IF the buffaloes had come up with it voluntarily from the very start. Then the decision would have been theirs. But as it was, they were violently forced into a “compromise”. FUCK NO. It was their land to begin with! They shouldn’t have to “compromise” with it at all!
*foams at mouth*
Sunatic(Quote) (Reply)
I cannot WAIT for “Brave”–I’m so excited! It looks like my mind of movie–fantasy, Scottish setting, and a warrior princess as a heroine! Fuck yeah, I am SO there! And I will take my six-year-old niece with me! XD
Chai Latte(Quote) (Reply)
Wait – wasn’t Mrs. Marple an elderly lady?
And Scott Adams has been downing dick Kool-Aid.
Are you sure some of these links aren’t April Fool Day jokes? (Which, btw, I hate with a fiery passion.)
sbg(Quote) (Reply)
The way I see it, Lane was the equivalent of a stunt performer in an action movie. Nobody expects Mark Wahlberg or Matt Damon to thank their stunt guys when they win acting awards. In fact, a lot of stunt people are happiest not being recognized — if the audience can’t tell which bits are the actor and which are the stunties. That means they’ve done their job right.
I think the problem has arisen from the fact that Lane isn’t primarily a stunt person. She’s a performer in her own right, and clearly highly skilled at her chosen art. She’s proud of her dancing (as she should be), but she’s not used to someone else getting the kudos for her work.
Robin(Quote) (Reply)
Where are the hot-headed naked ice borers?
Shaun(Quote) (Reply)
I want to incorporate my non-existent uterus now. Can you imagine the possibilities? Fallopian Enterprises, Inc. “Bleeding the Way To the Future.”
Shaun(Quote) (Reply)
Wow. I mean, wow.
sbg(Quote) (Reply)
…Reasonably? Check the link’s date.
Maria(Quote) (Reply)
Which link? I couldn’t actually get to the Mrs. Marple one. Stupid FF 4 is stupid.
sbg(Quote) (Reply)
Whichever one you think might be an April Fool’s joke. It seems unlikely to me, since I collect the links over the 10 days BEFORE LoGI posts to Hathor
Maria(Quote) (Reply)
Oh, no no no. I wasn’t thinking any actually were jokes so much as perhaps hoping they were because they’re so ehhhhhh. Should have put a wink after that.
sbg(Quote) (Reply)
True. I think all-around this has been handled badly… but especially by the studio. I don’t think Lane deserved a mention in Portman’s speech, unless Portman thought so. But I think she deserved credit as a dance double as oppopsed to an ‘extra’.
Gabriella(Quote) (Reply)
Given that Fox News was from whence I was hearing the loudest calls for Portman to give up her oscar (seriously, what?) I think that the whole controversy is very possibly a publicity stunt, and depending how much o want to credit them with foresight, they may have done the incredibly shitty thing of crediting her as an extra in preparation. Or they could have been shitty just because and are now taking advantage of her ire to drum up publicity.
Attackfish(Quote) (Reply)
If this is a publicity stunt, which I consider VERY likely because hardly anything publicized about HW isn’t, that makes it even worse because they’ve created a real life Cat Fighting Bitchez drama. That’s even more uncool than when they stick that shit in movies.
Jennifer Kesler(Quote) (Reply)
Oh yes, because people will point to it and say “see those nasty petty women? haha, isn’t that always the way it is?” And the thing is, if it is a stunt, it’s perfectly possible for Fox to have pulled it without either woman’s knowledge. It certainly not doing either of them any good.
Attackfish(Quote) (Reply)
Miss Marple actually. Part of the point of her character was that she was literally someone’s elderly maiden aunt.
JenN(Quote) (Reply)
Wouldn’t be the first time Fox did something like that, either. They’ll smear anybody to create publicity. God, someday we’ll all wake up and think the world seems just a tiny little bit cleaner and fresher and nicer, and it’ll turn out Rupert Murdoch kicked the bucket overnight.
Jennifer Kesler(Quote) (Reply)
Why cast an older actress when you can cast somebody with ~sex appeal~? Nobody wants to see women after 40, after all. =.=
Shaun(Quote) (Reply)
sbg(Quote) (Reply)
Yes. And arrived at her detection ability through a lifetime of watching people and drawing parallels between criminal versions of passions and ordinary ones that she’d seen played out thousands of times. The kind of stuff we might associate with a profiler now, but for an amateur, needs… well, a certain age.
Despite the date, I do wonder if this is an April Fool that got released a couple of days early.
Or maybe they just figure that nobody but nobody is ever going to equal Joan Hickson as a halfway authentic Mss Marple, so they have to go for a complete revamp. (They needn’t worry: Joan Hickson, like Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, is just so superlative that no fan is going to hold not matching them against anyone).
SunlessNick(Quote) (Reply)
If only fail could be weaponised. We’d rule the galaxy.
SunlessNick(Quote) (Reply)
I still wish she’d wear normal clothes. (Though part of that is that I don’t really like the superhero genre for the most part, and would rather see Wonder Woman through an urban fantasy lens, which her backstory would fit).
SunlessNick(Quote) (Reply)
A Wonder Woman in “normal clothes” is not going to have the same resonance with the comic unless the show is very, very popular. It also won’t have a shot at cementing the idea that WONDER WOMAN CAN WEAR PANTS AND IT’S OKAY, which this may.
Shaun(Quote) (Reply)
Even though it wasn’t much, I signed that Duke Nukem petition (along with a bunch of others about helping Planned Parenthood and rape victims and the like).
(And again, THANK YOU FOR PUTTING UP MY LINKS, MARIA!! ;A;)
Casey(Quote) (Reply)
The one about a woman enjoying sex and a movie rating. I figured the article was about toning it down to a make-out; somehow it still managed to gobsmack me that no, it was nonconsent that would lower the rating. Kudos on Emily Browning for talking about it so frankly.
SunlessNick(Quote) (Reply)
One of the comments said this isn’t the first time either; I have This Film Is Not Yet Rated in my Netflix queue now since that was the source they cited.
Sylvia Sybil(Quote) (Reply)
The comments in the second link about the transwoman who was mocked by DMV workers is, of course, SHITE. When you don’t have people making jokes like, “she removed her makeup and they found Jimmy Hoffa” you’ve got some arsehole accusing this “far left-wing” website of being the “thought police”, i.e., “If you’re against the homosexual agenda, you have your post removed. Typical left wing hypocritical censorship.”
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