The radical notion that women like good movies
More than a week has passed since the 2011 Emmy Awards, but there are a few moments I can’t stop thinking about. I live-tweeted the show this year, which is both a fun and exhausting experience, and enjoyed the interactions with other people watching and reacting on Twitter. (What?! You don’t follow us on Twitter? … Continue reading “2011 Emmy Analysis”
Even the promo shots for Whitney attempt retro, but come off as regressive. After the season premiere of Parks and Recreation (Knope 2012!) and The Office last Thursday night, I left the TV on and caught the series premiere of Whitney, the new sitcom created by and starring comic Whitney Cummings. I was first taken … Continue reading “Ripley’s Rebuke: ‘Whitney’ versus Whitney”
I Don’t Know How She Does It, starring Sarah Jessica Parker I have no doubt that the recently released romantic comedy I Don’t Know How She Does It, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, reeks of the same sexist and misogynistic tropes that exist in most romantic comedies. However, the film probably at least attempts to … Continue reading “I Don’t Know How She Does It: Most Misogynistic Film Reviews Ever”
Megan Kearns on The Feminist/Sexist See-Saw Ride of the 2011 Emmys from Fem2.0 Tearing Down the Celluloid Ceiling from Huffington Post Under Siege: The Policing of Women and Girls in America from IndieGoGo Joan Bakewell: Women Are Doing It For Themselves from The Telegraph Turn of the Tide? Women and Television from Jacki Zehner Hysteria … Continue reading “Bitch Flicks’ Weekly Picks”
I Need a Hero: Gus Van Sant’s Milk (2008) “My name is Harvey Milk, and I’m here to recruit you,” yells a nearly unrecognizable Sean Penn in a pivotal scene in Gus Van Sant’s biopic Milk (2008). Wearing a tight red and white shirt and form-fitting slacks highlighting a noticeable bulge, Penn unnervingly inhabits … Continue reading “Best Picture Nominee Review Series: Milk”
The 2011 Emmy Awards aired Sunday, September 18th Glee! by Cali Loria Having a character on TV who does not fit into the mold of being a perfect Westernized ideal of beauty would, in someone else’s hands, be refreshing. Glee, however, focuses on the extremes of women, enjoying the overt and campy hyperbolization of its … Continue reading “Emmy Week 2011: The Roundup”
Connie Britton as “Tami Taylor” in Friday Night Lights If there is one woman in Dillon who stands head and shoulders above them all, it’s Tami Taylor. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem too hard to do. Mothers in Dillon have not been the most successful characters; they were either drunk/druggies (Mama Collette, Vince’s mother, Becky’s mother), … Continue reading “Emmy Week 2011: Tami Taylor, My Hero”
Cast of Friday Night Lights Each woman in Friday Night Lights, like each man in the show, is defined by their relationship to football. Or rather, the town tries to define them by their relationship to the featured football team (either the Dillon Panthers during the first seasons or the East Dillon Lions during the … Continue reading “Emmy Week 2011: Friday Night Lights: Deep in the Heart of Texas”
Mags Bennett, played by Margo Martindale After watching the first couple episodes of Justified with me, my good friend asked the question that I ask myself, “Why do you like this show?” See, she knows me and my general dislike of the Western aesthetic: all wide shots and swagger. Add in that it is “inspired” … Continue reading “Emmy Week 2011: Mags Bennett: As Wholesome As Apple Pie”
I recognize that there’s a difference between displaying sexism because it’s the time period and condoning said sexism. But this IS a fantasy, not history, meaning the writers can imagine any world they wish to create. So why imagine a misogynistic one?
Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope “It’s a great time to be a woman in politics… Get on board and buckle up, ‘cos my ride’s gonna be a big one.” In the Parks and Recreation pilot, Leslie Knope made clear the extent of her political ambitions. But it was also clear that she was deluded. The Deputy Director of … Continue reading “Emmy Week 2011: Leslie Knope”
Not since E! has any one thing on television been so damn exclamatory. Glee! celebrated its everyman song-and-dance style before its slushy flying face-offs ever aired. After a Journey-style breakthrough and myriad episodes featuring pop music gone oh so right, the show ended its first Emmy award-winning season and began a second. Can the plotlines … Continue reading “Emmy Week 2011: Glee!”
