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Category: popular culture
Jul 09
How Being in Public Feels: Men VS Women – GREAT VIDEO!
https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2017/07/08/how-being-in-public-feels-men-vs-women/
May 14
Size Matters – a short film collage
Size Matters, Peg TIttle
What if women were the taller sex? I suggest that this would make a difference in the power relationship between men and women. Ask any short man.
This short film is a five‑minute (approximately) collage of scenes from ordinary life. That is, ordinary life reversed ‑ one in which women are …
Apr 14
The Mr. America Pageant – a short feminist script
The Mr. America Pageant, Peg Tittle
(hoping there are some people out there looking for short feminist scripts, for film or stage!)
This is a parody of the Miss America Beauty Pageants. Basically, it’s a freeform collage of scenes (of indeterminate length – five minutes might suffice) similar to those one would see during the …
Jan 06
Women Discover Life on Mars
“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 …
Oct 18
The 100, Madam Secretary, Code Black
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, …
May 22
WE’RE overly emotional, irrational, and angry. Right.
“It’s funny to me, because of how often I’ve been called overly emotional, irrational, and angry for my feminist writings. But you know what’s interesting? I’ve never threatened to physically harm anyone. I’ve never sent a death threat, not once.” http://www.notsorryfeminism.com/
May 12
You should do something about that.
Imagine a collage of male body parts (of living men, that is — just now their whole selves), each with one of the following captions:
Your legs are too hairy. You should do something about that.
Your hair’s too thin. You should do something about that.
Your butt droops. You should do something about that.
…
Nov 07
Men and Words
As a result of a recent exchange on a blog in which I felt insulted enough by the patronizing tone taken by the moderator that I decided not to participate any further, while another commenter (a male) responded with a mere “LOL”, I asked yet another commenter (also a male) why he thought our reactions …
Books by Peg Tittle
Writing as Jass Richards
Writing as Chris Wind
