The other day I was gabbing with Rebecca and she dropped the bombshell that Rachel Dratch was originally Jenna on 30 Rock. She was kind of not okay with it because they clearly recast Dratch for not meeting a very specific standard of beauty. This led to us talking about other women who were recast [...]

Man, I love when I get online during a major geek gathering like San Diego Comic Con. Male geeks, historically the most vocal kind of geeks, freak out because there are so many women around talking about Twilight. At other times of year you find them lurking on forums in the far corners of the [...]

THE AVENGERS PEOPLE. The Avengers comes out next year and sprouts from the brain of Joss Whedon, a holy figure in many nerd and feminist circles (does that make him doubly holy here? Someone guide me). This trailer is smart and just plays on the fact that SUPER HEROES ARE FIGHTING SHIT TOGETHER. We don’t [...]

Okay go watch that. What did it remind you of? What did you feel like you were watching? True Blood? No. I’m found myself thinking we were one Picard short of an Enterprise. Like what was going on? And also the shots from what might be the finale or something with Eric and Pam all [...]

It is so fricking easy to hate Sarah Silverman. She makes rape jokes. She’s nearly 40 and talks like a baby. She once tried to seduce Paris on Star Trek: Voyager. Most people (women) mainly hate her for the infantile sexy baby schtick she does. 30 Rock just spent an entire episode ripping into her [...]

Emily Deschanel is pregnant which means that her pregnancy will have to be incorporated into Bones some way. We here at FemPop are nothing if not helpful so we’ve decided to illustrate some of the best and worst ways she can rock that baby bump as the autistic bones genius. The most tried-and-true method of [...]