2009-02-21 13:02 | Whedonsday, &c.

* Via shangy_feminism:  More Than Just A Whore: Sex Work, Firefly and Audience Engagement

On how presenting Inara from Firefly in a positive light reinforces existing stereotypes about sex workers.

* Via livinglaurel:  The original Dollhouse pilot episode script.

* ilyka writes on how Being Intelligent gets in the damn way sometimes.  I could be mischaracterising her entry, it's been known, but that's part of what I got from it.

The problem I have with some, quite obviously not all (but you've got to put this disqualifier in there allthefuckingtime lest ye hurt feelings), educated people, is that the one thing they seem not to have been educated to do is to discern when to shut up and listen.

2009-02-16 10:25 | Today's links for today.

Things that have made me sit up and take notes.

1. Spinster aunt eradicates male viewpoint at I Blame The Patriarchy:
   

   Hear me, O afflicted dudes: If you truly do "get" feminism, you know that, like all oppressed classes, women, as a matter of survival, are intimate to the point of exhaustion with the drives, appetites, illnesses, angsts, yearnings, hopes, dreams, great works, and bodily functions of the oppressor. We grasp these things utterly and without omission because we do not live in a cave; they are the default subjects of all art, literature, music, science, film, blogs, dinner conversation, science fiction, advertising, journalism, legislation, TV, the Internet, religion, technology, sport, and miscellaneous culture both low and high. The minute some dude tells me something I don't already know about dudeliness, I'll eat a bonobo.

2. the_red_shoes reviews Dollhouse – be sure to read the comments.  I didn't much want to watch it even before I read reviews.
3. Why sleep with a boy? Oh goodness, see the comments again.

2008-10-31 23:29 | "And I divide them."

A bit about Doctor Who, season 4.  There was, "was" because this came out ages ago, a bit of feminist commentary about how Donna was cast as the non-attractive one.

If the "more" link doesn't work in LJ, then potential spoilers alert, for the end of season 4.  (This is the first time I've used the "more" thing in Wordpress, so what do I know.)

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2007-12-14 00:08 | I had too many tabs open.

It's links o'clock again.

* The Just World Theory: "According to the hypothesis, people have a strong desire or need to believe that the world is an orderly, predictable, and just place, where people get what they deserve."

* brownfemipower writes on domestic violence in movies: "What would happen if we decided that there were no 'winners' (those who do the culturally acceptable thing and do what we all hope *we* would do in a similar situation) or 'losers' (those who still love the person who is abusing them, or chose to stay for whatever reason, or are killed before they can escape)-just people who have the right to live and love and grow and change?"

* Shauna writes on learned helplessness and political apathy.  As I'm squarely in the camp of largely depressedly apathetic, this post hit me hard, and I plan to let this sit in the mental crockpot for a while.

* In an LJ thread, hotcoffeems makes an awesome statement: "I get irked by this notion that there is a tiny amount of compassion available to us as humans, and therefore it must only be meted out in tiny dribbles to those some tiny-minded individual arbitrarily decides is "deserving enough." I don't care if someone "made their bed", they shouldn't be abandoned to it when things go horribly south."

* In a post about mix-and-match minorities, Katie comments on something interesting – being part of the LGBTI community and being deaf.  And now I want to go be That Person who transcribes YouTube posts.  Goodness.

2007-07-23 13:03 | I am saving this one, goddammit.

I am Jack's Vagina: Marla Singer of Fight Club by BetaCandy.  A good read on the purpose of Marla Singer in the movie Fight Club.  The article assumes you've seen the movie, and it is about the movie, not really the book.  (I've experienced both, so.)

I like this post a ton, and I never remember where it is, so I'm putting it here, dammitall.