Old Fashioned movie review: how would Jesus date?
Old-fashioned is right. Like how the Taliban is old-fashioned. Behold some pretty despicable passive-aggressive othering of women in the name of “respect.”
London photo: reflections in the raindrops
Waiting to take off on the Emirates Air Line cross-Thames cable car.
Where Are the Women? Two Days, One Night
It’s really not that difficult: Just put a woman at the center of a story and let her live it on her own terms. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Two Days, One Night movie review: on the coins of a dilemma
A genuine horror story, sweaty with a palpable ring of truth about the unending fear that accompanies life on the knife edge of financial despair.
London photo: street layers
In Spitalfields.
Where Are the Women? How to Train Your Dragon 2
This is how you portray women in a film with a male protagonist: as existing as people in their own right not defined solely by their relationship to him. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Guardians of the Galaxy
Kudos to the film for including more than one token women in its mix. Too bad the (male) CGI cyber-raccoon is more fully realized than any of them are. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
this is why Where Are the Women? is so necessary
Yet more solid proof of a major problem with how women are represented onscreen. Not that we needed it… [This post is not behind the paywall.]
London photo: hashtag Jesus!
Graffiti for God.
Where Are the Women? Jupiter Ascending
This is how you squander a female protagonist: Don’t let her make any decisions about her own life and make sure she is in constant need of rescue by a man. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
