Labyrinth As Feminist Myth
Despite its potential, feature movie fantasy hasn’t traditionally been the go-to genre for feminist fiction.
Enter Labyrinth, in 1986.
Jennifer Connelly is an absolute joy as teenage protagonist Sarah Williams, discovering her power – not just the power to solve the labyrinth of the title, but the power to resist the coercion of David Bowie’s illusionist Goblin King, Jareth. Sarah solves puzzles, makes friends, and navigates her way through a series of illusions and temptations, culminating in her rejection of the King’s power in a maze of Escher staircases.
Someone’s unclear on some concepts
* Looking through the drafts folder and found this. Why didn’t I post it two months ago? Who knows? Someone contacted me through Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog, which is hosted on the free blogging platform wordpress.com: I stumbled upon your WordPress blog several days ago. I have noticed that you are not posting to [...]
Days off
Am I stretching a point weirdly when thinking about applying some of the principles of radical disability acceptance outside of its remit? I’m talking about my kid and (relatively) minor illnesses and injuries. This afternoon he took a pretty awful stack on the bitumen, with two well-scraped knees and one knee with a mild to [...]
Thursday Cheezburger, Seven Deadly Sins Edition #2: Greed
Runner-up: Related posts: Thursday Cheezburger, Deadly Sin #6: Gluttony Thursday Cheezburger Deadly Sin #5: Envy; and Delurking Day! Thursday Cheezburger Seven Deadly Sins #4: Lust Thursday Cheezburger Deadly Sins Edition #3: Wrath Thursday Cheezburger Deadly Sins #1: Sloth
Twitter @Hottest100women
I’d just like to draw everyone’s attention to a grassroots Twitter campaign to compile a Hottest 100 list of songs by female artists in response to the JJJ list that included (at the uppermost) six songs with female band members.
The rules are it needs to be a female muso, a female led band, or a band with at least two female members in it.
Virtual Travelling: Bubble Pop: Reflection Perfection
This shot made a bunch of front pages in the UK a few weeks ago – no special effects, just a perfect windless sunny day and some minor tweaking for sharpness and clarity in Photoshop. The series of shots over a few days leading up to this one start from here in his Flickr photostream [...]
Backwards Glance: Kingswood Country
Kingswood Country was a popular “Ugly Suburban Australian” sitcom back in the early 1980s. It featured the bigoted Ted Bullpit and his wife Thelma, who lived in Wombat Crescent. The series also featured their feminist daughter Greta and her husband Bruno, their medical student son Craig, and a variety of other stereotypical characters. Ted loved [...]
SchoolHolidayBlogging: SCIENCE!
Oh, I luff him. And I luff his sense of wonder, of infinite possibilities. The Lad, age six, has just hatched one of these Growing Lizard Egg Pets, which he bought with five dollars of his pocket money on an outing at the Gingin Gravity Discovery Centre. We submerged it in a bowl of water, [...]
Masterchef Australia: Media Integrity Ahoy! [SPOILERS]
[SPOILERS for the Masterchef Australia finale.] The Daily Telegraph ran a little fluff piece on tonight’s winner of Masterchef Australia. It was released on their news website just before the end of the show, leading some to be a little unhappy about the spoilers. The article is reproduced at the masterchef_au livejournal community, and there’s [...]
Quickhit: Librarian whines about girls in kidlit
Via pharaoh-katt, librarian Diantha McBride has a complaint about the number of girls there are in kidlit. Is she having trouble finding good books with interesting female protagonists? No. She is whinging that not enough boys feature in kidlit. She seems particularly appalled that there are female protagonists in books that aren’t specifically about female [...]
Moon Landing Quote of the Day
“You can’t fake a moon landing – it’s not an orgasm!” Craig Ferguson – Late Late Show (starts approx 4:30 in) h/t The Bad Astronomer on Twitter ETA: NatGeo has a gallery of 8 photos that don’t show what the moon-hoax conspiracy theorists think they reveal, with explanations, including some from Bad Astronomer Phil Plait. [...]
Otterday! And Open Thread.
From the Chestnut Centre again comes this little otter. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, [...]
The latest Harry Potter flick (HP6)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is the must-see film for the school holidays around our nick o’ the woods, what about yours? And if you’ve seen it, what did you think? And what did you think of the trailers for upcoming attractions? I reckon they better do a really good job on Pelham [...]
Well, I’m glad someone was out with their camera last night
I was stuck in traffic without mine, enjoying this dramatic sunset but itching for a lens. The light was glorious.
The SMH put together a gallery of sunset shots around the beaches and the harbour, and it’s pretty cool:
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