My pointing out that every film in this 10-minute film montage fails the BWT is however meant to call Hollywood’s institutional taste and judgement into question – why are very nearly all these films written around an all-male or mostly-male cast, and why are nearly all these memorable moments in these films written for the male actors, especially those involving “buddy flick” moments?
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
No, one of these things is not like the other
Bolt engages in a disingenuous display of Deliberately Not Getting It in the guise of outrage at sexism and double standards:
Girls Gone Wild or Wild Women? or: We Never Had Nasty Sluts When I Were A Lad
Reading an article about women’s violence at Schoolies’s Week recently prompted me to pull this languishing post out of my Drafts folder. This snippet exemplifies the phenomenon of low levels of criminal or “disorderly” behaviour by young women being given… Read More ›
Did you know?
Did you know that being a woman means you hate Keira Knightley? Fuck Politeness has done an excellent takedown of this, so I won’t repeat it here. Also, did you know (if you are a married woman) that Tiger Woods… Read More ›
Homo Minchinosaurus herd returns to the Opposition front bench
”John Howard and Peter Costello would have struggled to be promoted in Tony Abbott’s Liberal Party,” a senior minister, Anthony Albanese, said.
Dilbert still has it
Dilbert and the PHB on global warming
Funny Women: Becky Pedigo
I just saw a Comedy Central special she did a few years ago – here’s a 5 minute spot on a late night TV show:
Quick Hit: Don’t like.
Viva Placemat Sheets. Apologies for the poor picture quality, but I think you can probably see what I’m getting at. STA Travel. (H/T to Bek).
My two unfavourite memes of this week
People who keep harassing someone for a deleted copy of someone else’s raw data instead of going to the originator of that raw data for a copy of their own? Even when it’s been explained to them over and over that the originator is the only person who can provide another copy of that raw data? Now that’s unethical.
Dead because she…
A former Miss Argentina has died from complications after cosmetic surgery, leaving behind her husband and eight year old twins. According to newspaper reports “the woman who had it all died because she wanted a slightly firmer ass”. Not because… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 