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A letter of mine responding to this column by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's resident right-wing commentator, Jim Wooten, got printed in today's dead-tree edition. Since they have a 150-word limit on letters to the editor, it got severely edited down; the abridged version can be found by scrolling down here. Should you care to read the unexpurgated letter, it lies back of the cut.
Sep. 8th, 2007
From Channel Frederator's The Meth Minute™ via YouTube, a hilarious animated salute to all those unique characters the Intarwebs have given us:
Internet People!
Internet People!
The Peanuts Gang hits the fashion runway
Sep. 8th, 2007 05:19 pmApropos of my posting on Labor Day re certain egregious (but fun!) abuses of the late Charles M. Schulz's beloved characters, here is a far more congenial (and worthwhile) use of them I found out about from the latest Newsweek:
Fashion: Brown's the New Black...Charlie Brown, That Is
Fashion: Brown's the New Black...Charlie Brown, That Is
On the ascendancy of the female ass-kicker
Sep. 8th, 2007 06:02 pmOscar-winning actress Jodie Foster, quoted in this week's Newsweek, speaking on her latest film role in The Brave One, in which she plays an NYC public-radio host driven by a vicious assault to become a vigilante slayer of criminal predators, had this to say:
"Women don't kill people. They kill themselves, they kill their children, they drink themselves to death; but they don't do this. It was fascinating to play a woman you can't even begin to understand." (See review here.)
Is this part of the reason for the increasing popularity of violent femmes in TV, film, comic books, novels etc.: Xena, Buffy, the new Starbuck, et al.? Is it still, even in the year of our Lord two thousand and seven, so truly shocking to see a woman kill (even if it's not a "real" human, but a vampire, demon etc., that she's seen killing)? Have we really failed to come so far from chauvinism, as a society, that we still see killing as the province of the male, the guy, the dude, the man? And what does that say about our attitudes toward men, never mind women? Or is it a sign of true equality that we're finally willing to put (and view) women in such bloody, morally ambiguous roles as these?
And more distaff butt-kickers are coming: a "reimagined" Bionic Woman on NBC (with the actress who plays Starbuck as her equally bionic nemesis, yet!), not just one but two female demon-hunters on The CW's Supernatural, a CIA assassin in the new CBS series Chuck. Anyone have thoughts on this?
"Women don't kill people. They kill themselves, they kill their children, they drink themselves to death; but they don't do this. It was fascinating to play a woman you can't even begin to understand." (See review here.)
Is this part of the reason for the increasing popularity of violent femmes in TV, film, comic books, novels etc.: Xena, Buffy, the new Starbuck, et al.? Is it still, even in the year of our Lord two thousand and seven, so truly shocking to see a woman kill (even if it's not a "real" human, but a vampire, demon etc., that she's seen killing)? Have we really failed to come so far from chauvinism, as a society, that we still see killing as the province of the male, the guy, the dude, the man? And what does that say about our attitudes toward men, never mind women? Or is it a sign of true equality that we're finally willing to put (and view) women in such bloody, morally ambiguous roles as these?
And more distaff butt-kickers are coming: a "reimagined" Bionic Woman on NBC (with the actress who plays Starbuck as her equally bionic nemesis, yet!), not just one but two female demon-hunters on The CW's Supernatural, a CIA assassin in the new CBS series Chuck. Anyone have thoughts on this?