have a couple of links!

[lirazel]

I think these will be Relevant to Your Interests:

On why The Social Network is problematic quite aside from its explicity depiction (or lack thereof) of women

and

the best article I've read in a while on being a feminist geek. Things I never get tired of: talking about sexism in geek/fan culture.

Comments

[magisterequitum.livejournal.com]

So yeah, I love that movie, but yeah. Way to drop the fucking ball with the women. Such a fucking failure that really could have been easily avoided. Probably why I write so much Erica fic. And why the FBI!AU I'm working on is pretty much her POV.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I enjoyed the movie a lot, too, and it was very well-made. BUT THE LADIES.

I totally approve of your Erica!love. Easily my favorite character.

How far are you with the FBI!AU? I know you're really excited about it!

[magisterequitum.livejournal.com]

The ladies so got shafted. I mean, Mark had a real girlfriend that was there for everything. That didn't seem like an important thing? Oh well, okay...

Erica deserves more love than like the four writers in the fandom actually give her, lol.

I started over because I didn't like what I'd done a few months ago. The LSAT studying made me put it off, but I'm restarting it now and I like what I have so far. It makes me giddy.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Plus, from what I understand, his sister helps run the show. What about her?

Yay! Good luck with it!

How do you feel like the LSAT went? Feeling confident?

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Such great links!

When your favorite media shoves women into refrigerators, sexualizes violence against women, and aggressively objectifies women, it's easy to internalize misogyny.

Yeah, I think this is why I'm so picky about what I watch now. Because I don't always have the time to watch a show with my critical cap on, so if I'm going to ABSORB FICTION LIKE A SPONGE, I'd like to not be internalizing misogyny and racism.

I think it's dangerously easy to accept narratives and let them form how we see the world. And it takes energy and a lot of thoughtfulness to question them. And so like, when I tried watching SPN, I kinda felt like I was bathing in misogyny.

And I don't mean for this to be a critique of people who like certain shows! I just know that for me, I have to be careful about what I enjoy just for ~fun~ because if I watch something just for fun and I don't think critically about it, it still has the power to influence me in forming perspective about the world in unconscious ways.

[gryfndor-godess.livejournal.com]

Both really excellent articles! The real-word implications of TSN are legitimately scary.

Thanks for sharing!

[redsilverchains.livejournal.com]

LET ME AT THAT. I enjoyed the actors and the dialogue and most of all the chicken in TSN, but I was rolling my eyes at the first omg ladies in underwear!1111 montage, and by the end of the film it was like OH PLEASE SHUT UP SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT WOMEN. *grumps* I'm still annoyed when I hear people calling it the movie that defines our generation, or whatever. Um. NO.

Issues with that film: I have them.

[aragons.livejournal.com]

FUN FACT: I met Laurie Penny (the woman who wrote that first article) in a hairdressers in Camden last summer, totally crushed on her because we talked about feminism and she was really cute but never found out her name; cue a month later when I stumble across one of her articles for The Guardian and recognised her from the author picture. She's actually lovely.