Unforgettable movie review: toxic femininity
Sure, Ice Queen is the villain here. She’s the one who’s in the wrong for doin’ ALL THE THINGS she was supposed to do, and her promised man-prize was stolen.
Barbie
how many things are wrong with Sports Illustrated’s Barbie swimsuit cover?
The magazine that long ago decided that ogling women in skimpy swimsuits counts as a sport has found a new way to reduce women to objects.
on the hidebound misogyny of (some) science fiction fans… and pros
Silly me. I always thought of SF as a genre that encourages freethinking and lets the imagination roam beyond the mainstream.
Doctor Who blogging: “Cold War”
Alien on the Red October… though actually, this episode reminded me most of the Peter Davison-era Doctor Who story “Warriors of the Deep.”
question of the day: What do you think of the Katniss Everdeen Barbie?
Would you buy it? For yourself? For a little girl or boy?
the Katniss Everdeen Barbie doll (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today (plus a link leftover from the weekend)…
watch: 1970s Barbie commercial
With Marsha Brady!
Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 EDA Awards nominees
The AWFJ is one of the critics’ groups I belong to; my input helped determine these nominees, and I will vote in the final balloting to narrow it down to the winners. I still have to watch a few of these nominees…
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Barbie As Rapunzel’
This is actually an old DVD — dating back 2002 — that’s gotten a very minor redesign (of the packaging, that is) and is back as a “new release”… just in time to cash in on what is sure to be a Rapunzel craze with Disney’s Tangled about to open.
Jon Stewart loves Barbie; should government support the arts?; learning Na’vi; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
