arts & entertainment

When nerdiverses collide

By tigtog on 2013-05-30 • ( 2 )

Cue your fansquee, SF telly geeks.

Sport, racial vilification, casually racist gaffes, calling out slurs and apologies

By tigtog on 2013-05-30 • ( 6 )

I haven’t been paying attention to all the details of who said what about Adam Goodes since the on-field incident last week, but I’m pleasantly surprised to see Eddie Maguire now offering proper acknowledgements of the effects of racial vilification and proper apologies for uttering a racial slur. It’s a start.

More silencing tactics aimed at Anita Sarkeesian and Tropes vs Women in Video Games

By tigtog on 2013-05-29 • ( 5 )

A short while ago Anita Sarkeesian published another video to her Feminist Frequency YouTube channel. Within an hour it was taken down by YouTube because it had been flagged as containing objectionable content. Feminist Frequency appealed the takedown, and it was quickly restored. Good on YouTube for restoring the video so quickly, but why doesn’t YouTube have a better mechanism for immunising known target accounts against vexatious complaints?

A poke with the clue stick

By Mindy on 2013-05-27 • ( 2 )

This video by Ken Tanaka has gone viral. With good reason.

a silver bearded man in a fishing cap gazes thoughtfully into the distance, in the background is a wide stretch of water and a square-rigged sailing ship beside a lighthouse, all underneath a dark and cloudy sky

Our best sign yet that we are doing something right.

By Anna on 2013-05-27 • ( 7 )

Content note: child rape.
Didion at Feminéma, who has just become my new favourite person, has written a response to comments made by Roman Polanski at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival, where he continues to be welcome.

Friday Hoyden: Miranda Hart

By tigtog on 2013-05-24 • ( 13 )

As promised earlier this week, here’s a Miranda appreciation thread. http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ACBwQz4xYTo?rel=0 MGEITF – Miranda: A Masterclass Miranda Hart, the award winning star of Miranda, is joined by co-star Sarah Hadland and BBC Head of In-House Comedy Mark Freeland to give… Read More ›

The silhouette of a man wearing a long dark billowing coat stands on a pile of wreckage and looks out over a devastated metropolis

Racebending on Star Trek Into Darkness

By tigtog on 2013-05-15 • ( 19 )

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I’m a big fan of the Cumberbatch, and I thoroughly enjoyed his performance as the villain in the latest Star Trek movie so long as I could forget his character’s name: