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Penny_Esq
11/21/09

I know this is an oft-repeated trope in TV/fiction/movies, but I've been watching V and given the previews for next week's episode, it looks like "The REAL reason the V's are here!!!11!1!!!!!1!" has something to do with pregnant women (although I could be making that up, since I haven't seen the episode. I know there's an original "V" but I don't want to read about its plot because I like the new one and don't want to be spoiled). A big part of Lost also hinges on the reproductive (in)capability of women in "strange" lands. I'm sure there are other examples.

The point being, in spite of a lot of new TV and other media having strong female characters (and may I point to Erica and Juliet, from V and Lost respectively, both played by Elizabeth Mitchell), the core motivation, the underlying cause of the conflict between either the Others and the Losties, or the V's and the Humans, seems to be about reproduction. It's about whose women can procreate, and the idea that only one group can do it at a time, and the conflict is that Group A has to make sure Group B is subjugated, enslaved, or annihilated in order for Group A to survive.

ANYWAY. I've had some wine, and I like the sound of my own internet voice, and I'm sure someone smarter than me has already parsed this shit - hell, Jez may have. But yet the trope still has currency, and a smarter feminist's take on that would be rad, as I'm (a) still a neophyte and (b) too buzzed to think it through to a conclusion myself.

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Hooplehead
11/21/09

kid, tooth

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MrsAbraxas
11/21/09

It ain't easy to translate the sheer awesomeness of being a super-zexy fembot in a male locker room to the pages of a magazine!

The longing glances; the imminent circle jerks; the poorly coordinated uniforms. Might as well call in a supermodel and star photog to shoot it all up right, right?

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GirlFailer
11/20/09

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CurtCole
11/20/09

[www.amazon.com]

I love that Sarah Palin's book is technically already half-off.

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kaiwhakamarie
11/20/09

[www.cnn.com]

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kaiwhakamarie
11/20/09

[www.cnn.com]

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Ailatan
11/19/09

I can't wait to read the reviews Tracie will write of this.

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Mary McCarthyite
11/20/09

@Ailatan: I will get cable, just to watch this. People-watching on Jersey shore boardwalks is probably, um, THE best thing to do in the summer.

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Ailatan
11/20/09

@Mary McCarthyite: these people are INTENSE.

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spamanda
11/19/09

[www.lacrossetribune.com]

More facebook craziness. To sum up: don't friend those hotties that you don't actually know.

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lisas
11/18/09

#theblindside #sandrabullock anyone else notice how incredibly racist the trailer for this movie is? Angelic white lady rescues black kid from certain poverty, all other black people in trailer are hostile assholes rooting for the kid to fail.

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Habibiti
11/18/09

@lisas: That's been bothering me, but I don't know enough about it to go into full rage. Have you seen the movie? I'm wondering whether it being "true" justifies what seems to be a blatantly racist depiction of the events.

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lisas
11/18/09

@Habibiti: No, haven't seen the movie. Just reacting to the trailer, in that the trailer itself is racist. Unlikely that I'd see the movie anyway, I saw the trailer before Where the Wild Things Are.

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rodmanstreet
11/18/09

Tyra's defending the "happa" photoshoot from Top Model... channel 11!

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mbprice
11/18/09

I heretofore formally submit that the Going Rogue art contest be titled "Rogues Gallery."

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Plum-Pie
11/18/09

The lovely Ms Carpentier is crude, brainy.

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tetragami
11/18/09

#meetup The Seattle Jezebels are having a meet up at The NiteLite, 1926 2nd Ave, bar on the left. 8pm Nov. 20th. Details here: [www.facebook.com]

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Dodgergirl
11/17/09

This case is breaking my heart: [latimesblogs.latimes.com]

By the way, less than a month ago, CA was going to cut all funding to shelters. You see cases like this and wonder how on earth that could even be considered, when leaving an abuser is this dangerous and shelters save women's lives.

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