I grew up with a second-wave feminist. My mother brooked no sexist fools. When I confessed I loved The Jetsons she huffed and told me it was sexist drivel. My siblings and I could define patriarchy before we were twelve and we knew all to well how virulent sexism was. In sixth grade I nearly [...]

Or how two of comic’s “coolest” heroes are overexposed jerks and mascots for every internet douche ever. As the middle child in a big blended family full of step siblings and very close cousins I had an obsession with setting myself apart. Particularly from my older sister. If she liked vanilla I liked chocolate. If [...]

They met when they were just starting out. She was a young starlet and through him she apparently found the emotional stability necessary to weather the Hollywood machine, and, more importantly, it’s vicious tabloid subsidiary. They were in love! Photos of them looking longingly into each other’s eyes are applenty. Just browse their names in [...]

No, they cannot. Buuut, here’s the thing. I kind of hate it when people make absolute statements that leave no room for discussion. I hate when people claim video games can never be art. Or a Step Up film can never be entertaining. So when I hear people say “rape jokes are never funny” my [...]

He started off well enough. He was dreamy, serious, awesome at what he does and a very caring older brother. With one look in the Avatar’s direction a thousand ships were launched and Mako became the new Zuko. Only better because, you know, the hair. Then Asami, the best romantic foil ever put onto a [...]

Last week Shonda Rhimes was chilling watching Bunheads (a really fantastic show by the way) and tweeted her disappointment over the supreme whiteness of the show. Which, valid. The show is incredibly white. The media took this as a major criticism/Shonda Rhimes attacking Amy Sherman-Palladino (the creator of Bunheads and the sublime Gilmore Girls). This week Sherman-Palladino [...]

I was sick during most of E3. Like weeping next to the toilet and using my thigh scorching laptop as a stomach heater kind of sick. I spent the first two days of E3 sweaty and gross in bed at a lovely hotel that had one whole channel devoted to playing the same 30 minute [...]

  I don’t watch Glee! (exclamatory note entirely theirs). It is not my bag. Because my bag is not full of crap. I tried. I called myself a Gleek. But ultimately my very soul recoiled. That said, I know some of you guys like that show. Did you now Cory Monteith is THIRTY YEARS OLD? [...]

The Bechdel Test is one of my favorite things in the world. There are fewer succinct ways to condemn the entertainment industry than to note its regular failure of the Bechdel Test. When you realize that the majority of movies you will see this year fail the test it’s a horrifying thought. In order to [...]

I was worried about sitting down to write this piece, because my entire argument hinges on convincing you guys that I am not an old fogey, and given that I spend a fair amount of my time here discussing my fatness, and my love of the Vampire Diaries and also Michael Keaton, I am fully [...]