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The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of Nice versus Good (Social Justice League)

I’ve been thinking about niceness a lot lately. I’m not sure it’s as beneficial as I used to think it was. 

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That Time I Saw Those Plays In London, 2008. It was awesome. Especially when the actor playing Falstaff stopped in the middle of a monologue to glare at me because I was giggling too loud at the dick jokes.

I’m SO FREAKIN’ EXCITED ABOUT THIS. I DON’T EVEN KNOW, YOU GUYS. It’s an awesome version of the Histories I’ll be able to (eventually) own on DVD and subject all my friends to when I’m not cuddling the discs in my sleep. If you know me, you’ve probably been subjected to many stories about That Time I Saw These Plays In London.

This just adds to my theory that Christopher Nolan based a lot of hia trilogy on the Animated Series.

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metricjulie:

I was a guest today on CBC’s The Current to discuss While the Men Watch with Cassie Campbell-Pascall and Sami Jo Small. I wrote about WtMW last week on Yahoo! Sports, by the way.

If you’d like to listen to the panel, click here to download the podcast (even though my name is nowhere to be found, I am in fact part of the panel, alongside “female” greats Sami Jo and Cassie). [EDIT: CBC did add an entire part to its write-up and now my name is included.] Remember that I was invited on CBC to criticize a CBC show alongside CBC employees. Obviously I’m the only one who is going to be publicly opposed to this “alternative broadcast”. My goal was really to denounce the gender essentialist and heteronormative nature of the project, as well as remind people of some of the more problematic and downright offensive content on the WtMW website (which I wrote about on Puck Daddy).

If you have any comments, constructive criticism, questions, etc. please feel free to let me know either in the comments, via twitter or in an email. If you would like to send me an email but don’t have my address, I don’t know what to tell you. Try me on twitter.

Stuff you should check out.

hemsworthss:

What happened after shawarma

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fuckyeahblackwidow:

Woman 1: Christine, look— it’s the Black Widow!
Woman 2: It’s her all right— Madam Natasha! There’s a woman with her own mind— definitely the Gloria Steinem of the jumpsuit set.
And for the first time in many days— the Widow smiles.

I’ve posted this before, it’s still like, top ten moments in comics, for me. So much of the discussion about female superheroes, today, reduces them to things for men to look at. And here’s this moment, from a time when feminism was this new-fangled, radical notion, that flat out embraces Black Widow as someone for women to look up to. And she draws power from this, and contentment.

Sure, yeah, superhero comics can be the fantasies of adolescent white dudes. But they can be everyone else’s fantasy, too— dismiss that at your own peril.

From Daredevil #91, by Gerry Conway and Gene Colan.

Just a little something that made me smile.

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astrangerscandy: 

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“You and I remember Budapest very differently.”

<3

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I like the booty, oh what a booty

There is a ridiculous amount of booty in the Avengers, yes? I’m not complaining. 

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