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Guest Post: From Hollywood to Bon Temps, and Nary a Feminist In Sight…by Emilie Spiegel
Sunday night’s HBO lineup included both the series finale of Entourage and the season 4 finale of True Blood—two vastly different shows, herein considered together not only because they play back-to-back on the same network, but because, somehow, women have come to serve the same purpose on both (even though one is set in affluent, glamorous Hollywood and the other in working class, quotidian Bon Temps, Louisiana). Magical agents and magical witches aside, somehow, these two shows have created a narrative economy wherein women serve as motivating agents for men… ciphers largely devoid of their own desires and goals, or as a friend put it “Soo...
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Sexism Watch: New NASCAR Show Title
There are not many days when I open an email and read the title of a potential TV show and do a double take. That happened to me yesterday when I opened my daily email from the folks at Vulture to read this headline: "Starz May Order a Female-Led NASCAR Pilot Called Tits in the Pits."
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Marion Cotillard Takes on Sexism
Sometimes the easiest way to make people aware of sexism is to make fun of it. This video cracked me up.
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Sexism Watch: Sigourney Weaver Can't Be An Action Star But Harrison Ford Can
Sigourney Weaver is the mother of the female action hero. Her Ellen Ripley gave us a woman who was not afraid to be a woman and to kick some serious ass. As the second film (and best in my humble opinion) Aliens, celebrates its 25th anniversary this week, Weaver has been making the rounds of the p...
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The Press for Transformers 3 Starts With Bashing Megan Fox
I'm sorry, but how did Megan Fox's departure from Transformers 3 become a big press hook for the movie? Is the movie so bad that they need to distract from the actual movie to events that happened two years ago?
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What's Wrong With This Picture?
This is the panel entitled "New Faces of Indie Film" that the Film Society at Lincoln Center hosted this past Saturday to celebrate the opening of their new Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center.
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Cross-Post: Super 8 & Spielberg’s Chick Issue by Thelma Adams
If Super 8 is truly a mash note to Steven Spielberg, as my husband says, then it also echoes some thing I detest about SS. He’s horrible on the women issue. His immediate reaction to the opposite sex is awe and fear: put her up on a pedestal and drag her down.
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Sexist Jackass of the Day: Writer VS Naipaul
Here's what this jackass said at the Hay Festival in Britain:
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Sexism Watch: Hollywood Reporter Showrunner Roundtable
Last week I posted a trailer from a new documentary about showrunners where I called attention to the fact that they did not include a single woman in the trailer. The site received a comment from a person affiliated with the film who said they needed to make a deadline and the footage of the coupl...
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