There are just so many reasons to love Sir Patrick Stewart.
He gets into the Halloween spirit, for one.
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Tagged Amnesty International, Combat Stress, Comic-Con, Comicpalooze, Doctor Who, domestic abuse, Fame Day, feminism, Hamlet, Harry Potter, Ian McKellan, Jean Luc Picard, Lord of the Rings, Men, Patrick Stewart, Professor Xavier, Refuge, respect, Ring the Bell campaign, sexism, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, television, video games, Violence, women, X-Men, YouTube
EVAN: Loyal readers, and those who don’t have any strong feelings about the blog whatsoever, welcome to an old feature with a fancier name where the three writers get into the holiday spirit.
That holiday is, of course, All Hallows’ Eve, and the topic we will be discussing is the broadest possible one, at least in my opinion: Halloween costumes.
There are a number of different directions we could go with this, so I’m going to start things off light and ask what our ideal Halloween costumes would be, if we were actually going to dress up. Gordon mentioned earlier this week that he tends not to celebrate holidays, so it’s definitely hypothetical. Continue reading
Posted in bizarreness, Evan and Gordon Talk, family, fashion, feminism, race, Writers' Roundtable
Tagged appropriation, Bunny Man, children, costumes, feminism, Flatwoods Monsters, halloween, Halloween costumes, holiday, marketing, Martin Van Buren, mothman, racism, Sassy Rick Grimes, sexy, slutty, spooky, Writers' Roundtable
I’ve been meaning to write this post for some time now, however, a picture I recently saw finally gave me the push I needed to actually get down to it.
This was not that picture:
It was however, a picture very similar. Adalia Rose, the little girl in this photo, was contrasted up next to a picture of a model, the caption beneath it reading something along the lines of “Like if you think this girl is just as pretty as this model.”
Readers, Adalia Rose is not beautiful.
And that’s okay.
Because between this and my religion posts, I’m looking to get in hot water with everyone I know…
Posted in art, fashion, feminism, health, language, morality
Tagged adalia rose, anorexia, anorexic, appeal, art, axe, beautiful, beauty, big is beautiful, Body Positive, body positive movement, confidence, courage, curvy, dove, fat, feminism, GIF, inner beauty, intelligence, know thyself, marie curie, Men, morality, obese, overweight, progeria, Real Beauty, real beauty campaign, rubenesque, sex appeal, socrates, women, zoolander
Posted in comics, feminism, film, television, writing
Tagged characters, feminine, feminism, film, George R. R. Martin, Greg Rucka, Joss Whedon, masculine, Megan Fox, Natalie Portman, people, strength, strong female characters, weak, weak female characters
While I said I was going to continue my discussion on religion, I feel there’s so much material there that it’s going to be easy for me to get sucked into it all. While plunging into the maelstrom of controversy is on my to-do list, before I get too sidetracked, I want to mark off something I’ve had on the back burner for a while now.
3rd Wave Feminism- and everything that’s wrong with it. Continue reading
Posted in feminism, pornography, sex, Shame Day
Tagged 2nd wave feminism, 3rd wave feminism, andrea dworkin, blackface, brothel, dialectic, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, empowering, empowerment, exploitation, feminism, Feminist, first world, homelessness, human trafficking, Men, objectification, porn, poverty, prositution, rape, sex, sex positive, sexuality, sexualization, slavery, strip club, stripping, women
Everyone remember when this happened?
Do you remember how it was followed by a whole lot of this?
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Tagged America, Blurred Lines, Culture, Disney, feminism, Hannah Montana, Lady Gaga, marketing, media, Miley Cyrus, MTV, open letter, performance, recreating an image, Robin Thicke, sales, sex, shame day, slut, slutty, society, television, Twitter, VMA Awards, Wrecking Ball
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