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Bitch Popaganda: Ch-Ch-Changes Edition
Welcome back to another episode of Bitch Popaganda! Tune in as Kjerstin, Kelsey, and Kristin discuss ’90s nostalgia and Project Runway; then get whisked away to the movies to hear Andi, Jacob, and Kelsey’s review of The Change-Up. Plus, Bitch faves!
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We're All Mad Here: <em>Inception</em> & Dom Cobb's Crazy Lying Dead Wife
This post includes spoilers for Inception. It also discusses domestic violence.
There are multiple interpretations of Inception, but for the basis of this discussion I’m going to take the movie at face value. The central story is about Dominic Cobb needing to come to terms... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: New York Post
The New York Post likens the US stock market to “a hooker’s drawers” with a “hooker” on its cover. Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch is back in town.
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We're All Mad Here: Of Course We Should Dislike This Character! She's Crazy!
One consequence of this kind of character presentation is that audience members can experience a sense of “she deserved it” when something bad happens. Take, for example, the domestic violence depicted in the Schuester kitchen, where Will grabs Terri, shoves her aggressively against a counter, and... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Ann Richards
Ann Richards, born Dorothy Ann Willis, was Texas’s second female Governor and one in a long line of Texan women badasses.
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We're All Mad Here: Case Studies of "Crazy Bitches" in Cinema
This post includes spoilers for the movies Single White Female, The Craft, and Perfect Blue. These three movies have several things in common:
The main point-of-view character in each one is what I’ve called “fake-out crazy.” Each one exhibits some sort of behavior... Read more »
Murder, She Blogged: The Thin Man
The Thin Man gave us one of the wittiest crime-solving wife-husband duos of all time, retired detective Nick Charles and his wife Nora (Myrna Loy*), who spit one-liners, soak up a tremendous amount of alcohol and stumble around solving crime.
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Sexual Inadequacy: Body Shame and Sexy Fat
I started rounding up my weight, started posting pictures of myself displaying my less photogenic qualities—if I was going to get rejected, it was going to be right at the start. Every time I’d meet a man in real life that I found attractive I would reject him immediately. “Nice try, sexy... Read more »
BitchTapes: Gone Too Soon
It's no secret that musicians often die far too quickly. In this Only the Good Die Young, Part II mix, I recognize some of the artists we've lost in the past twenty years... Read more »
We're All Mad Here: Race, Gender, and Mental Illness in Pop Culture
Cast your mind back over the depictions of mental illness you’ve encountered most recently; there’s a chance many of them were women, from madwomen in the attic to crazy exes, and there’s a chance that at least some of them were people of color.... Read more »
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