This week I’m still a bit exhausted from my giant, three-part post last week. Also, the thought of deconstructing Taylor Swift and her feminism (or lack thereof) makes me feel kind of faint. So instead I’m going to amplify a message I’m particularly fond of.
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Photo: Ronald Woan, CC BY 2.0 This is part two of a three-part post! Check out part one here. *** Kai Cole had been with Joss Whedon since 1991, aka, “since Joss Whedon basically became […]
The first in a three-part special! Today I’ll be introducing the topic and discussing Whedon’s Wonder Woman script, tomorrow I will be discussing allegations from Kai Cole and some other unsavory things, and on Monday I’ll be trying to answer the question, “Do I still get to like watching Buffy?/Whedon’s stuff in general?”
Photo: SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 2.0 This is the final part! For parts one and two click below: Part One: Wonder Woman and Why I Care Part Two: The Allegations and What They Mean *** Someone […]
“Instead of the traditional Feminist Friday, I’m going to use this time to introduce you to a new sporadic series on the blog, (Insert Some Clever Title About Elle Discussing Cinema Here. Seriously, I don’t know what to name it. If you comment with names I will be super grateful).”
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When I heard about a kerfuffle in YA fiction that involved diversity, callout culture, and my favorite word, “problematic” (you can take the word “problematic” out of my cold dead hands) I definitely needed to investigate.
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Since this week has been full of news that removes my ability to even, this week you don’t so much get an article as you get a list of Things That Shouldn’t Be Things. Aka, things I didn’t think I’d have to be freaking saying in 2017.
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This is what a real maverick looks like. Photo credit C-SPAN There’s a quotation that is (probably erroneously) attributed to Ginger Rogers about how she did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high […]
Pop quiz! Which of the following are real, actual statements about the new Doctor Who that real, actual people wrote on the internet under their own names, and which are fake ones created by my […]
So I was going to write about a new Arkansas abortion bill that could, among other consequences, mean that a sexual assault survivor would have to get permission from her rapist in order to get an abortion. But that topic made me so angry I literally could not word. Which hasn’t happened since the GamerGate fiasco a few years ago, so… well done Arkansas, I guess. Instead you’ll get a shorter, slightly less angry bit about the House dress code. And I’ll try to tackle that other thing next week.
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