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Gaga's Jo Calderone Confuses VMA Audiences, Me
Like many others (if Twitter is to be believed), I sat through two-plus hours of VMAs last night. There were highlights (I don’t care how you feel about Beyoncé—her... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Rena
I used to live in a neighborhood boasting several martial-arts schools, and always liked walking by at night to see them all lit up and peopled with serious-looking little girls and boys in their crisp white gis. But it wasn't until recently that I heard about the woman who was partially... Read more »
Murder, She Blogged: Closing the Case
Well, it’s been a great eight weeks guest blogging here at Bitch about detectives and police work, but unfortunately it’s time to close the case.
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Sexual Inadequacy: By Blood or Marriage
Essentially this judge, the dishonorable Charley E. Prine Jr. of Harris County, has decided that even though there is no evidence to suggest that a gay man is even statistically AS likely to molest a child, that Flowers cannot trust Evans to watch the children while he does anything. No grocery... Read more »
Murder, She Blogged: Partners and Sidekicks
While the archetypal hard-boiled detective might be a bit of a lone wolf, almost all detectives—especially on-screen detectives—need a partner, a team, or at least a sidekick.
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Dark of the Matin
Unlike Miyazaki, Hosoda embraces our dependence on virtual worlds, but not naively. He’s aware of its dangers and isn’t above satirizing it; the resemblance of the OZ hub to Murakami’s deranged pandas, combined with its toothy, walleyed grin, makes even the pre-Love Machine OZ... Read more »
Stage Left: Goodbye Until Tomorrow
As I said in the first post of this series, one of my goals was to leave people with a greater appreciation for musical theatre. Hopefully I’ve succeeded. For this last post I just want to share with you some of my favorite performers and... Read more »
Remembering Aaliyah
Like so many musicians and artists who die so young (she was just 22 when her plane crashed), we can only imagine what Aaliyah’s career would look like now. Considering how self-possessed and strong she already was at such a young age, I can only guess that she’d have gone on to do even... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Southwest Airlines
When I heard that Southwest had done something appalling, my first thought was, “Again?”
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Murder, She Blogged: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Detective Work Outside the System
Despite the dodgy politics of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, Lisbeth Salander is an interesting character from a feminist perspective because she is a rare detective on the outside, with no faith in the system to produce a just result.
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