Another week, another bunch of thought-provoking articles. Here’s some of what we’ve been reading:
- ColorLines celebrates the U.S.’ first integrated all-female band.
- Also at ColorLines, Kai Wright reflects movingly on the still-far-off mountaintop MLK described.
- Jessica Valenti talks about the glorification of basic fathering in The Daily.
- Ms. and NPR each report and discuss Joe Biden’s address of sexual assault in schools; what did YOU think?
- Bitch contributor Sady Doyle manages to write smartly (while being, as she puts it, “not-just-totally-mean”) about Phyllis Schlafly’s influence at Global Comment.
- Bitch Flicks lends their feminist snark to an analysis of Total Film’s so-called “40 Greatest Movie Posters” list.
- Futrelle unpacks comic artist Scott Adams’ recent douchery—and his bizarre attempts to fix the situation—at Feministe and man boobz.
- Bitch contributor s.e. smith blogs at this ain’t livin’ about the ageist implications of a younger Miss Marple.
- Vulture goes over the vitriol around Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark and actor Harry Lennix’s piece asking why only Julie Taymor is trashed for a show many hands put together.
- In the same vein, 90s Woman looks at the pop phenomenon “Friday” and wonders “WTF is so scary about an ambitious thirteen-year-old girl?” (via feministified)
- Chloe at Feministing speaks out about last week’s Slutwalk and the victim-blaming such events protest.
- Greenier at RH Reality Check talks about “Why Insurance Coverage for Abortion Matters;” the piece was then picked up for AlterNet.
- Bad news: Canadian blog Gender Focus is shutting down. At least we’ll have Jarrah’s upcoming board game projects to follow!
- Liz at Our Turn comments on documentaries about masculinity.
- At Racialicious and Muslimah Media Watch, Diana shares her feelings on the CNN special Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door.
- On HuffPo, Payne explores how derogatory language feeds classism.
- Miss the queer teen drama South of Nowhere? Heaven knows I do! AfterEllen interviews star Mandy Musgrave about playing lesbians and her new webseries, Cowgirl Up.
- In the <3 files: “Family Dog Keeps Missing Baby Alive Overnight,” from Jezebel.
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5 Comments Have Been Posted
I like those movie posters. .
Neptuny replied on
I like those movie posters. . . .
fatherhood article
Magdalena Escobedo replied on
LOVED the Jessica Valenti article on fatherhood!
I am glad to see people
Kate Coenen replied on
I am glad to see people standing up for Julie Taymor, because she is one of my favorite directors. Also, I wonder if it might be worth turning Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark into an animated feature, because while I don't really have the means to take in a Broadway show, I love superheroes.
Thanks!
Ariana Lozano replied on
Hey! Thanks soooo much for the link mention! So glad others liked the piece by 90's Woman :))
I was under the impression
Whitney replied on
I was under the impression that the person who wrote about the 40 Greatest Movie Posters was being snarky himself. And sarcastic. I'm almost positive that the writer didn't *literally* mean that the Rosemary's Baby movie poster would help with contraception sales. I think he was trying to be funny, considering the content of the movie, with you know, Rosemary's baby being the anti-christ and all.
Articles like this make me scratch my head and go "Really?" I honestly don't find anything wrong or problematic with those posters, considering the way movie posters are made, they are meant to be teasers, use cropping and close-ups, and based on the content of the actual movie itself. I don't understand the hoopla about this "dismemberment" or obscured argument. There are movie posters featuring men who are "dismembered" or obscured. And if the only definition of "dismembered" is showing a close-up then I'd argue that it's a fairly poor argument. Look at the poster of the Indiana Jones movie. Every single character is shown with just their face, except Harrison Ford, and even he isn't show in entirety. So what on earth is the author trying to say? And judging by her commentary on Hard Candy, I take it she hasn't seen the movie. It's about a 14-year-old girl who suspects a man she is talking with on the internet is a pedophile, so she meets him, goes to his apartment with the plan to torture him and force him to admit he's a pedophile and has killed other girls before. That's right.... she intentionally put herself in that situation.
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