December 2010
41 posts
Think women have achieved equality? Think again. →
sevenofcups:
We Can’t Be Equal While:
Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
Men are...
Harry Potter and the Girls Who Weren’t Chosen Ones →
sevenofcups:
girl-germs:
Phew. I went into this thinking it would be some sort of scathing criticism. I was like, whatchu gonna say? But it’s totally not.
I love this. Hermione, Ginny and Luna are such great, strong characters and part of what makes the Harry Potter series so amazing. I only wish this article could’ve included a bit about Tonks, too, however. She’s another strong character,...
“Don’t you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a...”
– Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (via liquidnight)
“Feminists can like men and enjoy the process of liking individual men for their...”
– Gina Barreca; Why Anti-Feminism is Illogical, Unnecessary, Evil, and Incredibly Unsexy | Psychology Today (via dearly)
“Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have:...”
– J. G. Ballard, Age of Unreason (via nathanielstuart)
What's the point in saying "No homo"? No one's...
the natural female form.: Everytime you say "real... →
nicolettemason:
Real women are tall. Real women are short. They’re wide. Gaunt. Their bones can stick out of their collarbones, or be disguised by curves or fat. There are real women with breasts and real women with flat chests. There are real women who have had to have their breasts or ovaries removed, and not having those doesn’t make them any less of a real woman. There are even real women...
Hermione is a Time Lady
astroziggy:
Time travel and a “bigger on the inside” bag?
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“What will replace the classic fairy tale scheme? As we learned with ‘Tangled,’...”
– Girls On Film: Moving Beyond Disney Princesses
This is a really interesting article! I also really liked this comment from ‘TH’, which summed up exactly what I was thinking:
It’s funny that Disney doesn’t seem to think that it could have a female-led movie and have it appeal to a general audience...
November 2010
81 posts
