Monday Links: May 18th
First of all, it's time for everybody to get involved with Racebending.com, the protest effort over the casting of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Please go ahead, I'll wait.
Thanks!
Allrighty, so here are some links about items we've discussed lately, which you may already have seen since you probably read these blogs, but presented for completeness:
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Same Old Story by the angry black woman at Feminist SF - The Blog!
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine - The Greatest Story Never Told? at Fantasy Magazine.
- Star Trek doesn't update the gender roles by Ariel Wetzel at Feminist SF - The Blog!
- Live Long and Prosper at In Other Words.
- To Boldly Go...Backwards by Jennifer Weiner at The Huffington Post
- Star Trek's Reboot Seeks Out New Life, New Civilizations, New Audiences by Liza Paitz Spindler on Caution: Writers at Play. See particularly the section on Danger Gals.
- Star Trek's Gender Problem at Women in Hollywood.
- Working in the Dollhouse by Shannan Palma at Feminist SF - The Blog!
- Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, Just Like Ibsen's Except With More Yoga Pants at The Rest is Cream Cheese.
Some older pieces I enjoyed:
How movies/TV help to change social norms (for better or worse) at Anthro Goggles.
Stories for Men. Just go read it, seriously.
The 9 Most Racist Disney Characters on Cracked.com. (This one's for Grace, love ya!)
The Day the Earth Stood Still Would've Been Great, If it Hadn't Been So Underwhelming by Mana G at All Mirth and No Matter. I was totally sympathizing with the "wow look at all this non suckiness and yet this movie is so boring oh well" vibe.
Babylon AD: Yet Another Scifi Flick About the Virgin Mary by Annalee Newitz on io9.
Terrified Waitresses and Chicks Who Kick Ass at Brutal Women, about the Terminator series.
Also don't miss the 3rd Tell It WOC Speak Carnival, Voices Have Power, and the first Asian Women's Carnival.
And that's it for this time. Coming up in a couple of days, I think we'll do a little preview of the rest of 2009 in new releases...
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Yeah, most of those racist Disney characters are pretty bad, I must admit, even though I would certainly consider myself a Disneyphile. Like Skye said in her Tomb Raider post, when you love something, you gotta admit its flaws.