A Tuesday Linkpost
2011 February 22
tags: comics, em carroll, eulogy magazine, fat ugly or slutty, gaming, lgbt history month, links, maura mchugh, splinister, warrior women, women in history
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RIVETING NEWS: BadRep Towers is changing its ISP! This means the internet connection may be a bit ropey for the editor! So we’re hoping to have a post a day like we normally do, but hold on to your hats if we don’t quite hit our schedule this week. On to the links!
- A few weeks ago, but for anyone who’s not seen it: The New York Times features an article on the gender disparity in wikipedia editors.
- Linked to by commenter Ian on our first Pirate Women of History post, this page is from a reenactment site, but basically quite a good pile of historical info, links and lists about women in martial leadership through history. Also relevant for anyone unpersuaded by the arguments in the recent Assassin’s Creed debate about Activities An Independently-Minded Female Character Can Be Doing In A Period Setting Apart From Sex Work (Which Is Fine, But Not The Only Available Activity For A Scriptwriter). And WHERE IS THE NEXT PIRATE POST, I hear you cry? PANIC NOT, DEAR READERS. It’s in the works.
- It’s Women in Horror Recognition Month, if you didn’t know. Stuck to name many women authors and directors working in the horror genre that aren’t male? It’s not for lack of women, that’s for sure, and you can discover many of them at Melissa Helwig’s Little Miss Zombie blog, Maura McHugh’s blog on Splinister.com, and Re/Action magazine editor Sarah Dobb’s blog.
- And while BadRep struggles through a storm of BT Line Rental Negotiations to hold on to its Internet Connection Hat, why not order your copy of Re/Action magazine, issue 2 (check out the rockin’ cover). We’ve stocked up on our reading materials for the internet drought; drought or no drought you should check it out anyway. Good stuff.
- Salon sums it up: What Not To Say About Lara Logan. (Discusses sexual assault.)
- Meanwhile, Eulogy magazine are covering LGBT History Month – from the point of view of a magazine themed around death, but good to see it on there.
- Em Carroll has drawn a short, beautiful comic for Valentine’s season.
- Do you play computer games? Then hopefully some of the refrains on Fat, Ugly or Slutty won’t have happened to you! They say: Some players like to send creepy, disturbing, insulting, degrading and/or just plain rude messages to other online players, usually women. We think this is funny. Could be triggering for some, but it’s a nice demonstration of solidarity. And here’s an article about the creation of the site.
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It makes me sad when things I like are also things I hate.
In relation to what, the gaming insults one?
Cheer up! You are not one of those people!
The gaming one set me off, but in lots of things, in lots of ways. I love “mainstream” superhero comics but feel quite shaken whenever there’s a “women in refrigerators” moment, because it’s not who I am and not what I want to see, but the mediums themselves, the notion/lifestyle of “geek”, is. I just feel let down.
Re Women in Horror Month — a much missed contributor to some classics is the composer Elisabeth Lutyens, who wrote scores for a number of Hammer Horror and Amicus films (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0527534/). In general a hugely underrated composer anyway.
Oh wow, I saw her name and thought “I wonder if she’s descended from Edwin Lutyens”… and Wikipedia has now informed me that she is!
… I’ve no idea why I think that’s awesome but I do.
I think I’m going to explore her work more now. Thanks for the tip! She sounds like a bit of an Unsung Hero, actually. *goes to nudge the Unsung Heroes feature writer*
Definitely an unsung hero, yeah. She was Edwin Lutyens daughter, I think. Her concert music is cool: progressive but also idiosyncratic, and she was way ahead of her establishment (and, of course, male) contemporaries like Walton (bear in mind that until Benjamin Britten started to become well-known in the 40s/50s, most of English music was desparately trying to pretend that modernism wasn’t happening).
From the pop culture perspective the Hammer Horror stuff is cool because horror films are the perfect vehicle to get more challenging and modernistic music out there in the mainstream. The Skull in particular is cool, and I strongly recommend the film anyway for the height of Hammer barely coherent, campy schlock.