I hate Strong Female Characters I hate Strong Female Characters. As someone spends a fair amount of time complaining on the internet that there aren’t enough female heroes out there, this may seem a strange and out of character thing to say. And of course, I love all sorts of female characters who exhibit great resilience and courage. I love it when Angel asks Buffy what’s left when he takes away her weapons and her friends and she grabs his sword between her palms and says “Me”. In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, I love Zhang Ziyi’s Jen sneering “He is my defeated foe” when asked if she’s related to Chow Yun-Fat's Li Mu Bai. I love Jane Eyre declaring “I care for myself” despite the world’s protracted assault on her self-esteem. But the phrase “Strong Female Character” has always set my teeth on edge, and so have many of the characters who have so plainly been written to fit the bill. I remember watching Shrek with my mother. “The Princess knew kung-fu! She rolled her eyes. Is Sherlock Holmes strong? 1. 2. Equality. No.
Film Noir Construction Kit By Jonathan Wallace jw@bway.net You and I live on the margins of some larger organization which is itself on the margins. The place where we live has seen better days. The enterprise is to be carried out in ambiguous cooperation with the organization that we depend on and fear. I have known you all my life but I am not completely certain I can trust you. On the whole I think that if I had the suitcase I would not cut you out but one can never be certain until one has been in the situation. There is a woman whom I think I love but I also cannot entirely trust her. In any event, when we look at our surroundings we remember that we want to get out of this place. We are sitting in a room planning our enterprise and the light is slanting in through the venetian blinds striping our faces: good and evil, good and evil, good and evil. Your cigarette smoke curls in the air like a question mark. My woman looks at me with an expressionless face; she too is smoking.
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I Didn’t Want To Lean Out, by Frances Hocutt My name is Frances Hocutt, and last year I leaned out. I didn't make that decision lightly. I've loved chemistry since middle school. Frances Hocutt (left) and the rest of the USA team pose with their medals at the International Chemical Olympiad (IChO). People I chatted with would shudder when I said "synthetic organic chemist;" I would smile and say, "well, someone has to like the stuff." And I do. I Still Left. Textbooks don't tell you everything. They don't tell you about the grind of the tenure track or the two-body problem. You may notice that you've never heard about the contributions of female organic chemists. I started my career in medicinal chemistry immediately after I earned my bachelor’s. So, I went to graduate school. Letting Go But the bad... was bad. I heard about instances of sexual harassment by a former graduate student. I knew that much of what I had heard of or watched could have easily happened to me in slightly different circumstances. I was furious. Pushback Support
THE TERRY GILLIAM SCHOOL OF FILM: 10 LESSONS FOR DIRECTORS TODAY “Billy Wilder once said that there are only two things aging directors can’t avoid…awards and haemorroids [sic]. I’ll stick with just the awards for the moment, please.” So says a recent Facebook post from the brain behind some of the greatest films of the last century, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail to Brazil to The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Yes, Terry Gilliam has joined Facebook, as an experiment to promote his latest venture, the short film The Wholly Family, about Italian Pulcinella figurines coming to life inside a small boy’s imagination. Wearing a Filipino-print shirt he purchased at his favorite craft shop in Los Angeles, and socks covered with cows sporting sunglasses, Gilliam showed up the night after his award ceremony to the Palais des Congrès to teach a Master Class to an audience full of Moroccan film students. 1. As a child, I always drew funny creatures, funny characters. 2. Live and learn how to make films. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape Charlie woke up to a blank-faced girl straddling him. He had been disrobed, was erect, and as her hips began to shift in short, quick movements, he realized he was inside of her. Frozen with disbelief, Charlie laid still. The next morning Charlie wasn’t sure what to think. “The most traumatic part was the complete assumption of consent,” he tells me nearly two decades later. In a recent study, 1 in 6 male college students reported having been raped. The concept of a woman forcing a man into a sex act can seem paradoxical, if not physiologically impossible. According to the CDC: "Being made to penetrate someone else includes times when the victim was made to, or there was an attempt to make them, sexually penetrate someone without the victim’s consent because the victim was physically forced (such as being pinned or held down, or by the use of violence) or threatened with physical harm, or when the victim was drunk, high, drugged, or passed out and unable to consent." In 1927 the U.S.
25 Spectacular Movies You (Probably) Haven’t Seen Midnight in Paris Woody Allen’s latest places starving writer Owen Wilson in Paris with his fiancée, Rachel McAdams. Searching for inspiration for his incomplete novel, Owen begins taking strolls around the city at night where he discovers an unexpected group of people. I wish I could be more specific, but it would ruin the surprise. Know that it is brilliant, witty and full of mystique. 92% on Rotten Tomatoes (RT). Let the Right One In The best vampire movie ever made in my opinion. Watch Let the Right One In for FREE on Amazon Instant Video The Man From Earth Holy &#%@ this film’s plot is fascinating! Garden State This is my absolute favorite film. Waking Life It’s impossible for you to grasp Waking Life without actually watching it, but I’ll do my best to explain it. Watch Waking Life for FREE on Amazon Instant Video Closer This film is a rather dark, yet comedic story about the twisted relationships between Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Julia Roberts. Sin Nombre Snatch The Descent
Here's What Happened When One Queer Woman Dressed More Feminine For Her Job All it took was one versatile haircut, and voila. The seeds for "Warpaint," a nuanced art project addressing the subtleties of gender expression, were planted. The photography series is the brainchild of artist Coco Layne, who, after buzzing the sides of her head, realized that simple changes in the way she styled her hair could impact her own gender representation. "I'm a relatively feminine person most days, but I had both sides of my head shaved at the time," Layne recounted in an email interview with The Huffington Post. She got the job and eventually revealed her real hair to her managers; they were comfortable with Layne's platinum blonde hair split down the middle ("shaved sides hidden, of course"). "I identify as a femme queer woman. Layne's presentation changes throughout "Warpaint," moving from a "masculine" hair style, minimal makeup and structure button-down shirt, to what she considers a more "feminine" hairstyle, dramatic makeup and vibrant clothing.