I’ve been thinking a lot about women and power. J. and I went to see John Carter last week, but this isn’t really a rant about John Carter, which has its own issues. What particularly struck me was when J. pointed out that he was surprised to see so many women background characters in the […]
I read an old proverb once that went, “We’re both queens. So who will hang out the laundry?” I think this is an important point that a lot of seemingly imaginative fiction fails to take into account when creating societies. I was on a panel about women in combat at Epic Confusion when Scott Lynch
Genderblindered: “We’re both queens. So who will hang out the laundry?” Read More »
Many of my recent fictions are about the dynamic of how to be a strong woman among strong women, and what society and its individuals look like after we’ve already crossed over from the “one! kickass! woman! in! the! world!” place to the “OMG assassins at my door! Yes, of course they’re women!” place. Note
The One-of-a-Kind-Bad-Ass-Woman…. Or the Strong Woman Circus Freak? Read More »
With a name like “Cowboys and Aliens” I should have expected that, yes, really, it would only feature cowboys and aliens, and the appearance of a female character with a gun did not make her a cowgirl, of course, but an alien (obviously. If you aren’t a cowboy you must be an alien). But, whatever. This movie was
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Challenging people online is relatively (relatively!) easy, but challenging people in person is much, much harder. Batgirl can tell you all about it. I remember being at my first World Fantasy convention and seeing Daniel Abraham walk across the floor toward me and hold out his hand and I thought, “Oh sweet Jesus he’s totally
On Creating Stuff, All Girl-Like and Shit Read More »
I didn’t hate this movie as much as most people, and I suspect this is because I didn’t go into it expecting some Grand Feministe Epic. You can generally tell how seriously a movie takes it female characters by what they’re wearing throughout. One glance at all the lingerie and little-girl fetish gear in the
Some Belated, Spoiler-Filled Thoughts on Suckerpunch (An Epic of Failed Potential) Read More »
It’s so sad when a movie with a potentially great story goes so wrong. I am willing to forgive Kristen Stewart the whole Twilight thing because she had such a great Joan Jett look. The problem was she just wasn’t given much at all to work with. Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie was even worse,
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J and I went out to see Red on Saturday night at the cheap theater. The previews were great, but it performed a bit poorly and showed up at the cheap theaters quickly, so I wasn’t holding my breath. This, despite the draw of Helen Mirren as a retired assassin among Bruce Willis’s crew of