June 2012
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Penny Arcade vs Rape Culture
Penny Arcade is the webcomic that got me into webcomics, which is saying something. The first truly geeky friends I met at school showed it to me almost as a rite of passage, thereby hooking me not only on the strip itself, but webcomics generally. For years, PA held pride of place with all of us: most quoted, most referenced, most likely to be shown to yet more newcomers as an offer of...
May 2012
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Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal →
blackenedbutterfly:
msamberhazard:
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tal9000:
transawareness:
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please,...
Anonymous asked: Who is your favorite Doctor from Doctor Who?
Anonymous asked: Been thinking of giving Doctor Who a try, but am greatly intimidated by the sheer size of the series. Any advice on where to start?
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“I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age,...”
– Jennifer duBois, Writing Across Gender (via florida-uterati)
To apply a bit of intersectionality to this…women of color and the many marginalized communities we belong to—especially communities of color—have been saying this for a minute.
(via racialicious)
Anonymous asked: There has been a lot of media coverage about the book Fifty Shades of Grey and I was wondering if you've read it or plan on reading it.
Anonymous asked: Hey hey, do you have interests in any Scandinavian crime fictions? Just curious?
Anonymous asked: What is, in your opinion, the best epic fantasy novel?
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tumblr is the Hotel California of websites
You can log out any time you like
BUT YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE.
*kickass guitar solo*
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Anonymous asked: Oh wtf. How did such an idiot crop up on your Facebook? I cannot believe someone would even think that's funny.
serjames asked: There's a short story in Kim Stanley Robinson's book "The Martians" (I think it's Odessa, but I can't remember just now) which is basically a female Sherlock Holmes, in all but name, solving a mystery on Mars, told by an all but name John Watson. It's really rather good.
Anonymous asked: In the upcoming Sherlock Holmes series called Elementary, John Watson is played by Lucy Liu and is called Joan Watson. I love Lucy Liu, the best and hottest Charlie's angel in my opinion, and really am looking forward to seeing what she does with Joan Watson. But seeing her in the show makes me wish they also had a woman playing Sherlock, I think it would have made for an interesting and...
Anonymous asked: Lol half of your followers are on tumblrdatinggame(.)com
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Anonymous asked: There has been controversy in the Wonder Woman comics recently regarding the amazons. The controversy itself is not what bothers me the most, what does is some people's belief that the amazons of paradise island are the symbol of a utopian feminist community in comics and should remain unchanged. That troubles me because paradise island in the comics is an island filled with beautiful,...
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Anonymous asked: I enjoyed your "friend zone" post and wonder if you might be interested in this short story I wrote, essentially on this very topic, over a year ago. You made me think of it again, and the themes it was exploring. If so, I can send you the link through Twitter. All the best, @MrsWhich
Anonymous asked: You have impeccable diction & your posts are not only true but enjoyable. Yes I'm anonymous while giving you a compliment lol. Don't worry (: anyways forget those people who send hates 'questions', doubt I had to say that though.
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Anonymous asked: You're fucking stupid, little friendzone bitch. fuck you.
carnivaloftherandom asked: Re: Avengers. 1. This isn't a film solely for comics readers. 2.I won't say casting Smulders was/n't fail, but there was flak for casting Jackson as Fury. 3. In Black Widow, Whedon subverted the male gaze in filming her, she's got the 3rd-highest amount of screen time of ANY character and she doesn't use sex as a weapon so much as using the expectation that she will, to...
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Question & Answer: Why Men Can Be Feminists
Anonymous asked: “Am a big Joss Whedon fan, Firefly was utterly beautiful, the Avengers not so much. Anyway, Joss identifies himself as a feminist and there certainly are feminist themes in his work. But I wonder, can a man be feminist? And by that I mean is it possible for man to truly understand the nature of sexism and how best to combat it?”
If feminism wants to be intersectional...
Anonymous asked: Am a big Joss Whedon fan, Firefly was utterly beautiful, the Avengers not so much. Anyway, Joss identifies himself as a feminist and there certainly are feminist themes in his work. But I wonder, can a man be feminist? And by that I mean is it possible for man to truly understand the nature of sexism and how best to combat it?
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The Princess & The Frog
Last night, I finally watched The Princess and the Frog - the first Disney film to feature a black princess.And it was… disappointingly problematic. On the positive side of things: Tiana was a fantastic, hard-working, believable character, and I loved that her friendship with Charlotte was sweet and genuine rather than competitive. It was great that she had an actual ambition beyond being...
Anonymous asked: This is a comment on your piece about the Avengers from a comic book fan. I view the Avengers as a gift to comic fans around the world, a love letter to those have loved and defended the medium. It can't be fully appreciated by a non-comical reader, and that's why I loved it. Joss Whedon didn't make a superhero movie for the casual viewer, he made a superhero movie for the comic...
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Privacy & IP
“Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rather than the formal one, that some things are the province of those who experience them and not naturally open to the scrutiny of others:...
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Stargate: A Retrospective
Once upon a time in the 90s, back before Stargate was serialised in the form of multiple TV shows, it was a movie starring James Spader and Kurt Russell which was basically one of my favourite things ever. So deep was my love for the Stargate movie, in fact, that when the original TV show first aired, I refused to watch it - not because I balked at the idea of seeing the premise revisited, but...
Anonymous asked: Good luck getting studio heads to listen to you over the sound of all that money.
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The Avengers
Warning: spoilers.
Seriously now, internets. Level with me: am I honest to dog the only human alive who didn’t think The Avengers movie was the most awesome thing in the history of things? More than that - am I alone in thinking that by Joss Whedon’s earlier standards, it was a great big pile of blah?
Evidently so. Because ever since it came out, I don’t think a day has gone by...
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Anonymous asked: Are you going to "The Beatles: The Lost Concert" movie premier in a few weeks?
Anonymous asked: I know this may be old news, but I was reading Christopher Priest's thoughts on the Clarke Awards and was struck not by the criticisms of the judges, but by those of the writers of the nominated books. Especially him saying Charles Stross 'writes like an internet puppy', for me that's out of line, a writer should have some respect for other writers. Where do you came down on...
Anonymous asked: I'm black and my friends say am racist to my own race because I hate to see black rappers in movies. I feel when black rappers are in movies they pander to all the negative black stereotypes they are, so as to clearly display their "blackness". I hate that wholeheartedly. I like black actors who play characters without trying to shove a stereotype down the viewer's throat. My...
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tumblingtheology asked: Thank you so much for taking down that ridiculous, misogynistic, gender-essentialist article about My Little Pony! I am a 20-something woman, but I know a lot of guys who love the new MLP show, and I think it actually has a lot of positive messages about gender and accepting those who are different from you. There's nothing wrong with "girly" and there's nothing wrong with guys...
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“Being a feminist doesn’t mean suddenly no longer liking problematic things. If...”
– sabrina_il (via tumblinfeminist)
YES! I still watch TV shows and read magazines and enjoy things that have problematic aspects, but that doesn’t make me any worse of a feminist. Feminism doesn’t require you to become an ascetic about all media. It just means acknowledging that things are wrong and...
Anonymous asked: It's now politically correct to give preference to women seeking upper level positions in male dominated fields. Doing so makes an organization look "progressive." I was recently offered a job I was unqualified for, and upon saying so, was told that "it doesn't matter" because "we need a women in this position to get the boss of our backs." Rather than being...
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90 Years of Memories
This past week, my grandmother Mary celebrated her 90th birthday. Sadly, I couldn’t be at the celebrations, which were held back home in Australia, but my mother was kind enough to send me a transcript of the speech she gave at the party on grandma’s behalf. 90 years is a long time, and as the speech contained a number of memories and reminiscences about life in the previous century, I...
April 2012
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