June 2010
Oh man. →
Rue McClanahan passed away. Growing up I used to seek this actres sout, and she’s the reason I watched early Mama’s Family and caught a few episodes of Maude, and a couple of fun PBS…
May 2010
Disney actually got the Prince thing right once. →
All the fantasy Disney sells aside, being one of their main female characters seems like something of a pain. If you don’t start out trapped in a hellish nightmare at the hands of some…
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“I’ve come across a lot of this attitude - especially regarding superheroes...”
– Kelly Thompson (She Has No Head! – Interview With Hope Larson About Girls & Comics | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources)
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“When Selina arises from her death transformed (which by the way did not seem to...”
– Batman Returns - Heroine Content
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Reaching Out to Afghan Women - Slide Show -... →
Latimer said that Afghans were more receptive when his patrols included the female Marines, who hand out stuffed animals to village children.
Villagers are often stunned, if not disbelieving , to see women underneath the body armor. Inside the compounds, the female Marines say they have been poked in intimate places by Afghan women, who want to make sure they are really women
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“Most insulting of all is the hubris with which Hollywood producers decide what...”
– Why Gene Yang won’t be watching Airbender | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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The Fairy Godstooges →
In this corner, wearing the purple and black villain robes, hailing from the Forbidden Mountain, the reigning Champion of the Fairy Dueling circuit for SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS running! The Ruler of Rue!…
And then she kicked their ass.: A Silver Age... →
See if you can answer this question. What DC character had third biggest selling comic in 1969? Okay, I’ll give you a hint — it wasn’t Superman. He had the biggest selling superhero book. Batman? The Flash? No and No. It was Lois Lane. That’s right, Superman’s girlfriend. In 1969, Batman was…
The Magnificent Maleficent →
One of the few light Disney movies in my horror-loaded DVD collection is Sleeping Beauty. I’ve been fond of this one since I was a little girl, even though the joke is that the heroine spends the…
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My studies of folklore had indicated that in most oral traditions folk and fairy tales naturally contain heroines as well as heroes. However the tales we read in anthologies are not simply literal transcriptions of every tale in a culture’s oral tradition. First someone collects tales, selecting and transliterating the ones perceived as the best. Then an editor selects from among the...
