At Digital Femme Online, Cheryl Lynn thinks about Idie Okonkwo’s change from an afro to a pixie cut in Wolverine and the X-Men, and is sad that ” no other character is willing to address what is a glaring problem with this child in regards to her mutancy […]
At Slacktivist, Fred Clark discusses a Ms. Blog post dedicated to products “marketed to people and also women.” He notes the relation of this kind of marketing and this assumption of “male” as “neutral” to Disqus’ default icon for users who haven’t chosen one and to video game […]
Kotaku has a column Harris O’Malley aka, Dr. Nerdlove, has written on geeks and male privilege. Meanwhile, Dr. Nerdlove takes another whack at the hornets’ nest on his own blog.
Megan Rosalarian Gedris draws some nice comparisons to illustrate a point about how the ladies are drawn in many superhero comics. My favorite? Man Canary with his “come hither look.”
“[A]t the age of 41, at about 94 minutes into The Divide,” Drew McWeeny writes, “I reached a breaking point, and I realized that I am pretty much incapable of sitting through one more cheap, pointless, exploitative rape in a movie.”
Molly Knefel talks about a recent profile of Eddie Brill, the man who books acts for Late Night with David Letterman. “My main criticism lies with Brill’s statement about women, of course. I’m not sure where the “women act like men” belief fits in with the other common […]
Find t-shirts, mugs, totes and more at our new Guttermart location at Teepublic!
The Cultural Gutter 