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 monday, january 22Kicking the kick ass girls Salon's Badass girls on film: "Is it a good thing when women beat the crap out of men at the movies?" contains the following reading of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: "...is essentially a movie about the voluntary emasculation of a male action hero. (You know: Chow Yun Fat gives his powerful "sword" -- nudge, nudge -- to a lady whom he is incapable of sleeping with; she fights over it with another lady and gives it back to him, and he drops dead.)" You know, just reading that makes me feel dirty. I've been known to spout insane, contorted readings of mass media at times, but I never, ever would have thought of the above. I respected Chow Yun Fat's character as an individual who was comfortable with equality. Did I miss something? The same article ends with "In all these movies, love and violence seem more closely allied than ever, and that development, though shamefully appealing to our primitive side, is dangerous. For if women can beat down men in the movies, how long will it be until the reverse becomes perfectly acceptable -- first in the movies, and then in real life?" Hello? Call me confused.
 FOJM reaches 605! To date, everyone has pretty much kept their clothes on to date, but that's all changed with FOJM's first naked derriere.New (and returning) FOJM include Beth, David, Darren, Bryan, .sara, David, Kim, Joe, Miriam, Katharine, Jyn, Ben, Joe, Rebecca, Tones, Glenn, David, Billy, Amy, Jake, Terry & Gwendolyn, Robert, and Alison & Ryan.
I am a story: "It is the mission of iamastory.com to increase awareness and understanding of regular autobiographical storytelling. The main way we plan to do this is by encouraging storytellers from around the web to write a short statement about why they think storytelling is important." The day before yesterday? Year of the Snake. |
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