TW: institutional misogyny, physical violence, child abuse, custody disputes

(This was originally a comment on Fannie's Room, one of the best feminist blogs out there, but it quickly grew into maybe one of the better things I've written on my own history, so I'm posting it here).I really don't want to hijack this discussion with my personal ( Read more... )

TW: genocide

This post has been bubbling in my head for a long time.

The other, or at least the face of the other, seems like it’s almost always female.

I first realized this while watching Legions of the Guardians, which, I realize, is about owls. ( Read more... )

TW: some implied male-on-female physical violence

In the last installment of this series, Dastan and Tamina had turned on one another repeatedly, culminating in Tamina being captured by vaguely bad people and Dastan being uncomfortably chummy with their leader as he watched her dragged away to an unknown fate while she demanded that he heed her ( Read more... )

"What kind of music do you usually have here?"
"Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western." (The Blues Brothers)

So that utterly perturbing rally Texas Governor Rick Perry organized last Saturday? It has come to my attention that it was totally non-denominational! They had all kinds down there, they just were getting everyone together in ( Read more... )

TW: euthanasia, swearing, debt ceiling, nuclear war

It's time for everyone's other favorite game - progressive in-fighting and reciprocal contempt!

In this corner, we have the people who still can swallow the audacity of hope, the OBAMALIEVERS! In the other corner, we have those who contribute in multiple ways to political false equivalency, the ( Read more... )

TW: rapeOverwhelmingly, the most prominent and complex vampire characters are male. When we're supposed to fear them, like Dracula or Nosferatu, or we're supposed to sympathize with them, like Bill Compton or Edward Dalton, or we're supposed to view them as people trying their hardest, like Blade or Louis de Pointe du Lac, they're generally men. ( Read more... )

Hey, I'm sorry internet, the whole WOF (World on Fire) deconstructions have basically been put on indefinite hiatus for now (you can read them so far here) and I'm going to have to skip the Prince of Persia deconstruction this week as well ( Read more... )

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TW: some implied male-on-female physical violence

When we last left The Prince of Persia, the King, Dastan’s father, was dead. The Kingdom was both distraught at the death of their apparently quite beloved King and enraged at the alleged murderer, our protagonist ( Read more... )

TW: forced marriage

The previous ten minutes of The Prince of Persia alternated between competitive brothers with related familial drama and contradictory (and frequently creepy) depictions of women. The next ten minutes of the film decided that those two plot bunnies should be bred, and we consequently get their horrifying baby - fraternal ( Read more... )