Apr 07
What is Wrong with this Picture?
This film consists of a collage of scenes, five to ten minutes in length), in which women are always the superordinates and men are always the subordinates. Dialogue isn’t that important, so once the scenes are decided upon and roughed out, the cast can probably improv rather than follow …
Mar 07
You’re so – different. Not such an –
Yeah. It’s like before I was so – driven. It’s like I was in a car, no, I was the car. And it was always in high gear, in screaming high gear. I had to get somewhere, I always had to get somewhere. I couldn’t …
Feb 22
Although I read this fantastic novel years ago, I was recently reminded of it by Judith A. Little’s Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: utopias and dystopias.
At the end of the novel, five options for human reproduction are presented:
Feb 05
Rain without Thunder (movie) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
I just watched this! And will watch it again, stopping to think at so many points!
Here’s the brief description: It’s the year 2042 and the threat is real…women are going to prison for terminating their pregnancies. An investigating reporter is determined to reveal the truth behind the convictions.
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Jan 16
So I was in a public washroom the other day and noticed this little sign: “For your convenience, a sanitary receptacle is provided in this cubicle. You are requested to co-operate and use it for the purpose intended.”
“For your convenience.” For our convenience? Given that the alternative to the requested behaviour would result in …
Jan 06
“Should we fund a mission to Mars? Sure. Give us a bit of time and we can make that planet uninhabitable too.” (jassrichards.com)
That said, I thoroughly enjoyed watching MARS. Why? Because the three astronauts who walk out onto the planet’s surface at the end to discover life on Mars are all women. Not a …
Dec 14
Generally speaking, I don’t do Christmas. At all. But when I see an ad in the classifieds for “Three female elves to work in a mall during the Christmas season”, well, I have to say something.
And the first thing I have to say is, I don’t think they’re going to find any – male …
Nov 04
Ever since I’ve been old enough to ask myself ‘Do I want children?’, my answer has been ‘No’ – a rather emphatic ‘No!’ I consider parenting to be a career, and a very demanding one at that: twenty-four hours a day for at least fourteen years, you are responsible for the physical, emotional, and intellectual …
Oct 18
If you haven’t yet discovered it, check out The 100 (available on Netflix).
There are so many female leaders and principals! Clarke, her mother, Raven, Octavia, the three grounder leaders…
And in one episode, not only does Clarke do something really difficult and really important with Finn, the camera ends with a close-up of her, …
Sep 30
[Note: this piece was written a while ago; hence the low figures!]
For those who think it’s no longer a patriarchal world and women are treated the same as men – you’re wrong.
And I am so tired, so very tired of my sex getting in the way of my life, making every little thing …
