why do little girls like princess stuff so much?
The answer is ridiculously obvious, in fact…
Where Are the Women? The Lego Movie
The only woman is shuffled aside as hero in favor of a doofus guy… and then she’s reduced to a joke about how badly she’s being treated. Har har? [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Peter Jackson would have been better off, if he was worried about how women are represented on film, just leaving his Hobbit female-free. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? X-Men: Days of Future Past
Jennifer Lawrence’s complex antagonist and lots of female mutants make for a respectable showing, particularly for the genre. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The Boxtrolls
The only female presence is the daughter of a male authority figure… unless we also count the man in drag. Even the fantastical boxtrolls all read as male. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
London photo: flags of the world, spare change
This guy was sketching flags of the world on the ground in Trafalgar Square…
Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts (87th Academy Awards) review
An extraordinary group of films concerned with corralling confusing and conflicting human experience at emotional borderlands.
Where Are the Women? Selma
Coretta Scott King is mostly an adjunct to her husband here… but even this traditional representation of a woman is better than many films manage. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Selma movie review: the march of time is slow
A magnificent film, vital and alive, with the most profound sense of immediacy I think I’ve ever felt in a historical story.
Where Are the Women? Shaun the Sheep Movie
A couple of sheep in human-female drag are essential to the plot of this kids’ flick… whose central characters — human and farm animal alike — are all male. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
