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hollywood hates women

women! if they don’t get you with their knives, they’ll get you with their vaginas

Mon, Sep 30, 2013
46 comments

I’m starting to get it. Men are simply so piss-in-their-pants terrified of women that they must reduce us to bits and pieces in order to even begin to cope with the horror.

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in case you’re into Pinterest…

Mon, Sep 09, 2013
6 comments

I’ve ravamped my presence on Pinterest…

| 6 Comments

“how women were written out of film history”

Wed, Sep 04, 2013
7 comments

Women are invisible even when they do groundbreaking, historic work. Fuck this shit.

| 7 Comments

One Direction: This Is Us trailer: girls do so look

Fri, Aug 23, 2013
9 comments

I am moved to smack down the many, many people who dismiss this movie and the band on the sole basis of their appeal to young girls.

| 9 Comments

this is Hollywood’s sexism, right here

Thu, Aug 22, 2013
3 comments

The failure of male-led action movies is NEVER a reason to stop making male-led action movies. Never ever ever.

| 3 Comments

“why doesn’t Hollywood want a Wonder Woman film?”

Tue, Aug 13, 2013
43 comments

Basically, girls are strange and mysterious and it’s just too hard to tell stories about them. Also: cooties. Wah!

| 43 Comments

why has Anchor Bay dick-washed and whitewashed The Sapphires? (final? update)

Tue, Aug 06, 2013
316 comments

Anchor Bay has responded with a fairly lame apology.

| 316 Comments

because time machines aren’t pink enough?

Thu, Aug 01, 2013
7 comments

Wouldn’t it be amazing if women protagonists had the opportunity to keep jumping back in time until they could get their lives just the way they want them? Ah, but that would require a movie with a female protagonist…

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We’re the Millers greenband and redband trailers: a lesson in the MPAA’s twisted priorities

Wed, Jul 31, 2013
7 comments

Before you watch the redband trailer, can you guess what extra bits to be found there will be deemed too naughty for tender eyes and ears?

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can you spot the bullshit in this description of Timur Bekmambetov’s Warriors of Oz?

Wed, Jul 24, 2013
14 comments

The female protagonist has been scrubbed from this “classic story.” Why, Bekmambetov? You got a problem with women?

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