February 2011
I Hate This Mess: Media largely ignores massive... →
Yesterday approximately 70,000 to 100,000 people attended a protest at Wisconsin’s Capitol Square in opposition to Governor Scott Walker’s (R) Budget Repair Bill despite. The crowd woud be impressive on any day, but was even more so yesterday given the weather conditions which included snow…
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“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the...”
– Pearl S. Buck (via fuckyeahfeminists)
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Time-Machine? Yeah!: Graphs, y'all →
poqueoclock:  Is there any reason movies with male protagonists can’t mean just as much to a girl as they can to a boy? Speaking as someone who that happened to, I say that they can indeed. As a little girl, I looked up to Aladdin more than Jasmine, and I looked up to Simba more than Nala. Turns out that just because they have the same set of reproductive organs, doesn’t mean that I have to...
Feb 8th
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Time-Machine? Yeah!: Graphs, y'all →
kilomonster: Susan in Monsters vs. Aliens could be considered the protagonist I think and that was 2009? BUT OTHERWISE I AM DISAPPOINT IN THE DISTINCT LACK OF FEMALE LEADS. Susan is in the list as a female protagonist. I counted her. :)
Feb 8th
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Cynical Idealism: Graphs, y'all →
barrelfish: Or that the role of Ripley precludes there being a need for more women with agency in sci-fi. Guess what? ALIEN WAS 32 YEARS AGO. YES. THIS. I cannot tell you how sick I am of people being like “BUT THERE WAS RIPLEY” or even “THERE WAS BUFFY” Operative word: WAS. Name me any time since the dawn of science fiction where there HASN’T been an awesome...
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Graphs, y'all
[this is a cc of something I posted in my LJ in December] Regular conversation at film school: “Girls have plenty of protagonists! Look at Belle! Look at Mulan!” “Those were 20 and 12 years ago, respectively.” “But-!” “No. Stop. Name Five animated movies in the last ten years that had a female protagonist.” They never could. And some people still...
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