June 2012
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a review of Brave. One day, the minds at Pixar...
Pixar: So, princess stories. Disney has done that a lot. But.... maybe we can improve on some stuff.
Pixar: You know how mothers just seem to be.... well, missing from those stories? Missing or just quiet or a non-presence in the shadow of The Father or evil in-laws?
Pixar: Yeah. Let's give our girl a mother.
Pixar: Hell, let's make the whole story about their relationship, without minimizing the father-figure and making sure to give all of them unique and rich characterization.
Pixar: Oh, and our girl can shoot. Like a BOSS.
Pixar:
Pixar: Let's make a point of celebrating her physical strength without making it the only thing that defines her!
Pixar: ..... in fact, hey. Wow.
Pixar: Let's make her defining character moment center around compassion and *rhetoric*, where her intelligence and maturity and love of family are as important as her physical heroism.
Pixar: Oh.
Pixar: And while we're on a roll?
Pixar: Let's make sure that our female protagonists have complete agency, that none of their major defining moments or decisions revolve around or are accomplished only through the actions of men, that they are graceful and kind while being equally capable of crassness and unkindness, that romance is not our heroine's goal and that no part of her motivation hinges on pleasing or impressing or playing the catalyst for a male character--
Pixar: --and that we accomplish all of that without belittling the importance of the male characters or their relationships as a realistic interconnected family!
Pixar: And while we're at it?
Pixar: Let's take that conservative "mama bear" trope and redefine it in the most simultaneously heart-rending and humorous way possible, leaving more metaphorical parallels for the audience to chew on than they'll even realize until later.
Pixar:
Pixar: And I guess we can make it heart-breakingly lovely to look at while we're at it.
Pixar: And with Celtic aesthetics. That mythological trove is way underused these days.
Pixar: .... and we have thoughts for a short, too.....
“quixoticandabsurd: So tired of it.
Because seriously, nobody batted an eye when...”
– Historical Slut: I’m so tired of this “No Male Role-models in Brave” shit.
“Because when Kony 2012 came out, that was a big deal. But when Inuit children...”
– littleojibwe (via sweetcalamity)
Jess Fink: If you're a feminist who understands... →
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fauxmosexualtranstrender:
reblogging yet again because a) i’m so sooo happy how many notes this has, it really warms my heart b) i went into a fit of glee when i saw bugbrennan’s butthurt post about it (you’re damn RIGHT this has 7000 notes Bug)
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“ew girls”
– Brave review from acclaimed movie critics (via orbitars)
clumsyoctopus:
you know movies like avatar where they travel to another planet and colonise it and terrorise the natives
what if there was a movie where a bunch of explorers landed on another planet
but it was more advance and they instantly got dragged to an immigration office and shouted at in a language they didnt understand and made to fill out a bunch of forms for like 6 hours and had...
“I know a lot of people believe that first person is the closest, most intimate...”
– Author and playwright Madeleine George on the first person POV, in her interview for my YA Pride series
(via malindalo)
I agree with this! First person to me is more obviously lying: you’re saying ‘I’ without meaning it every line. I love messing about with POVs. (via sarahreesbrennan)
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bigbigtruck: How You Can Have a Bunch of Great... →
chirart:
Hahahaha ever since Saturday the Korra finale seems to make me angrier and angrier. As a storyteller and as a fan of solid storytelling, it is an atrocious mess! I stand by the creators are amazing directors, amazing concept artists, amazing producers, but wow are they terrible…
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German court bans religious circumcision. Now... →
Circumcisions of young boys on religious grounds should be considered as grievous bodily harm, a German court has said, in a landmark ruling that clears up a grey area for doctors.
The regional court in Cologne, western Germany, ruled that the “fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity outweighed the fundamental rights of the parents.”
“The religious freedom of the parents and their...
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Them: I don't think kids should be exposed to gay relationships.
You: Why not?
Them: It's introducing children to sexuality! They're too young for that!
You: So when a prince and princess kiss in a Disney movie, are they introduced to sexuality? When the prince and the princess get married and have a child, is that introducing your child to sexuality?
Them: NO! But if they see a man and a man, or a woman and a woman together... they're going to start asking questions! Like how a man and a man can... you know, do anything together.
You: You think the only thing people think when they see a gay couple is "I wonder how they have sex"? Furthermore, you think a CHILD is going to even know what that means? When the prince and the princess kiss, does your 4 year old daughter ask, "mommy, how do people have intercourse"? No. She just sees two people in love. If you remember when you were a kid, you probably didn't think about sex every time you saw two people happy together.
Them: But it'll bring up all kinds of questions, it'll confuse my child!
You: Then be a fucking parent and explain it to your child. The only question that might be brought up is "mom, why don't you want gay people to be happy?". And when you don't have a good answer for that question, you can look your child in the eye and say "It's because I'm a bigot".
“Queerbaiting is what most shows with (predominantly white) male leads do. Put a...”
– this wonderful post explaining the many fails of Moffat when it comes to writing sexual orientation. (via lydiamartinis)
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