February 2012
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30 Days of Women: Day 15
Day 15: Favourite female character growth arc
Mai (Avatar). She’s a gloomy girl who sighs a lot. She’s sarcastic, lounges around in the background and occasionally takes the time to throw a few weapons and, you know, help save the day. I love that she has reasons for being quiet and dismissive, and it was one of the crowning moments of the series when she finally got up to defend...
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30 Days of Women: Day 14
Day 14: Favourite older female character
Granny Weatherwax (Discworld). Known by the trolls as Aaoograha hoa (“She Who Must Be Avoided”) and the dwarves as K’ez’rek d’b’duz (“Go Around the Other Side of the Mountain”). She does what people need, not what they want, is feared and respected by everyone that knows her name, and her best friend is a...
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“We have anti-choice women in for abortions all the time. Many of them are just...”
– A physician at an abortion clinic (via fuckititsfriday)
I remember reading this link. It turns your stomach and hurts your head, but it’s worth reading.
(via dark-siren)
I bookmarked this link a while back, and it’s absolutely worth a look.
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30 Days of Women: Day 13
Day 13: Favourite female character in a book
October Daye. She’s sort of the anti Merry Gentry, I suppose? She’s a very real woman, one who has married and had a daughter, is estranged from her family, faces her problems maturely and treasures her independence. She is a competent investigator, decent with a sword, clever and crafty and dedicated to her job. This doesn’t mean...
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READ THIS STORY. PASS IT AROUND. "ILU-486" by... →
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She’d done what she’d heard whispered about at work in the diner, put a red kerchief on her window sill and closed the sash, just letting it hang there, and after about three days she’d noticed it was gone. In its place was a little flowerpot with a little violet sitting precariously on the ledge. She’d...
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30 Days of Women: Day 12
Day 12: Favourite female character in a movie
Hildur (Astrópía). Hildur is down on her luck after her rich boyfriend is sent to prison. She goes looking for work and ends up in a shop that sells roleplaying books and comics. She wrangles herself a job and does her best to fit in, sorting out the paperwork and teaching herself about the new culture she is immersed in. She loves reading romance...
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30 Days of Women: Day 11
Day 11: Favourite female character in a children’s show
Toph (Avatar). Known as the Blind Bandit in the earthbending arenas, Toph is probably the most talented bender of the series. She is destined to be Aang’s teacher not because she is made of awesome and a total badass but because unlike the majority of earthbenders she has neutral jing - she listens to the earth. She can do...
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“No.”
– Actress Julianne Moore, when asked if she gained a newfound respect for Sarah Palin after delving deeper into Palin’s life to portray her in the upcoming film “Game Change.” (via mamaatheist)
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30 Days of Women: Day 10
Day 10: Favourite female character in a scifi/supernatural show
Kenzi (Lost Girl). Sidekick to a pansexual succubus detective, she provides the majority of the comic relief while still being intelligent, sneaky and daring. Kenzi is one of the few human characters on Lost Girl - she has no powers, no fae ancestry. She has to use her wits and her cunning to solve cases, and does the brunt of the...
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“Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are...”
– (i wish i could put this on a business card and hand it out to people who make rape jokes. the flip side would say FUCK YOU) (via janedoe225)
…I might actually put this on business cards, for real. Can you imagine, just, like. Handing someone the card and just walking off. SO PERFECT.
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“I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my...”
– I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. (via albinwonderland)
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30 Days of Women: Day 9
Day 9: Favourite female character in a drama show Daenerys Targaryen is a bargaining chip: her brother uses her as an attempt to claim the throne that he believes is his by selling her off to a foreign warlord. She makes the best of it, she teaches her new husband that she has value and personality (which is the best reason for gratuitous on-screen sex I’ve ever seen: sex that is actually...
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Neil Gaiman: That last post →
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People are asking if that last post was a joke.
I don’t think so.
But even if it was, it wasn’t. It’s nothing I haven’t seen before, many times, either as hate mail that came in on the FAQ line over at neilgaiman.com, or in other corners of the web — the saddest of which was a letter from a…
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30 Days of Women: Day 8
Day 8: Favourite female character in a comedy show
(Boadicea) Geraldine Julie Andrews Dick Van Dyke Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Chim Chiminey Chim Chiminey Chim Chim Cher-ee Granger is the main character in The Vicar of Dibley. What I love about her is that she has fantastically timed physical comedy, something that isn’t often emphasised with women on television. They are dryly...
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30 Days of Women: Day 7
Day 7: A female character that needs more screen time
Betty (Bomb Girls). While all the women on this show are awesome in their own way, Betty is both a badass and closeted. She is obviously doing her best to make friends but often finds it difficult to interact with the other women, some of this due to her own fear and awkwardness, and I think more than one has twigged her secret and chosen...