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The L.A. Times' Webscout blog parses the treatment of teen sexuality on Ashton Kutcher's cartoons-discussing-celebrities blog, Blah Girls. It finds the Blah Girls to be realistically, "radically" portraying young female sexuality. "These three cartoon characters are sexualized in a way we rarely—if ever—see teenage girls depicted. They're not sexed-up in an exploitive Bratz way, or in a judgmental cautionary-tale way…The girls are trying to define their own fledging sexuality in the midst of our hypersexualized celebrity culture, and the embarrassment this usually leads to makes the show a gleeful satire of teenage girls' confused desires," writer Maria Russo argues. [LAT] More »
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You may have heard that Ashton Kutcher and his production company, Katalyst Media, have launched a new blog/"web series" called Blah Girls. Taking a dip into the blogosphere waters doesn't exactly seem like a move one would expect from a production company better known for TV shows (such as Beauty and the Geek and Punk'd), which might explain why Kutcher dances around the "blog" word and opts to describe the site as an "interactive, animated Web series based on celebrity culture." Basically, the Blah Girls involves captioned celeb photos, Project Runway roundups, reality TV liveblogs (sounds familiar) as well as a video portion with short "webisodes" of the Blah Girls. Is the site any good? The details on the unfunny jokes, dashes of racism, and gay stereotyping, after the jump. More »
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