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If you really got to what was the overriding motivation that that woman that you found out at the end, it was always rape because for some reason men saw that as…this incredibly dramatic thing. … ‘Well that’s easy! I can just pluck that one out of the sky and apply it to her.’
Contributor Zachary Evans interviews women on what this new era of Star Wars means to them.
When we have Peggy Carter and Elektra kicking ass for Marvel and Supergirl being the woman of steel for DC, it grows more and more frustrating to see the great disservice that writers do to their female characters who have been in the superhero canon for decades, all to serve the male leads and their stories and to make them appear more heroic.
LEGO is still, to this day, heavily invested in boys. They are the primary focus for both the majority of the sets and the advertising. Instead of returning to the old unisex approach, LEGO decided to corral girls off from the main LEGO line altogether. They now make Disney Princesses, Elves, and Friends sets that are aimed at girls, to the detriment of boys who are put off by all the pink. Those delightful plastic bricks have gone from a unisex toy to highly gendered one.
I have news for these commenters: ‘What’s with all the exclusion? Isn’t having only one gender kind of unfair?’ is pretty much how women feel looking at all media, all the time.
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I’m not wearing hot pants next time.
The word GENIUS is used arbitrarily, even with regard to men, and art is subjective. What means GENIUS to one person might not be GENIUS to someone else. Yet it seems to be more readily accepted as fact when it’s applied to a man. …[I]n the social media discussion of Lemonade, as well as of Beyoncé’s previous Grammy wins, the “criteria” for GENIUS seems to be “doing it all yourself.” As if any of the men we label GENIUSES did anything completely on their own.
It’s lowest-common-denominator-o’ clock already?
In terms of pacing, Winter’s War lumbers and creaks its way to its third act, which—after a handful of early scenes—finally sees Freya and a resurrected Ravenna reunited to fight the good guys and, eventually, each other. This is what the movie should have been. It was excellent. But we had to endure a full Charlize Theron-less hour of Hemsworth running through the forest in order to get to that point. (This makes the fact that Theron used the Sony hack to negotiate a payday equal to Hemsworth’s hilarious. She has a fifth of his screen time. Maybe. You go, Charlize. We can all only aspire to such greatness.)
It’s sad that we need this–but we’re glad Sharp took the lead to try and change comics-as-usual.
