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Carol Lay — The Big Skinny
Geez Louise. The humor and good sense of Shanker's The Fat Girl's Guide to Life is a marked contrast to the neuroticism of Carol Lay's The Big Skinny. Seriously? They both talk about bananas - Shanker's all like, "Isn't it messed up that one banana is two servings? Who only eats half a banana at a time?" Well. Carol...
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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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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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Film people talk about racism and sexism in film, anonymously
Karen Healey highlighted this link on her LiveJournal, and I encourage everyone to check it out. It's just what I've been talking about for years, the faux-liberalism of Hollywood. "Hollywood is anything but liberal. I call them liberal bigots. Hollywood is filled with liberal bigots, and they use the thing of...
Written on April 23rd, 2009 in Featured Articles,Industry Buzz
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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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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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