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Charlie’s Diary: Bechdel’s Law
Charlie’s Diary: Bechdel’s Law
The current decade is characterized by security anxieties writ large, a socially conservative culture of retreat from liberalism, and a strong anti-feminist backlash. Our popular media, far from being the bastions of liberal values that conservatives say they are, are actually belwethers of popular culture, amplifying, reinforcing, and reflecting our culture’s normative [...]
riddick still sucks
I hate hate fucking HATE The Chronicles of Riddick, mostly for the way it trashed one of my fav little scifi films. Apparently, so does John Scalzi, a new-ish (to me) fav sf author that I’ve come to dig:
AMC - Blogs - SciFi Scanner - John Scalzi - The Ridiculousness of Riddick, or, How Not [...]