A feminist pop culture adventure Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:00:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 37601771 /2011/12/16/in-the-bleak-mid-links-ter/ /2011/12/16/in-the-bleak-mid-links-ter/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:00:50 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=9060

Sita’s Ramayana: The Many Lives of a Text (Tara Books)

Cagney and Lacey reunited (and talking feminism in the Guardian)

A long essay on contemporary feminism from the London Review of Books, which we haven’t finished yet as we post it, and you might not agree with all or any of it (we’re not wildly convinced here at BR Towers) but worth a read, and worth discussing. (Make tea first.)

ComicsAlliance grabs Marvel staff, asks them about the lack of women. Gotta love ComicsAlliance. (Nil points to DC, who declined to comment.)

The Mary Sue reviews Breaking Dawn Part 1 with illustrations.

Awesome Women of Occupy Philly, by Kittens With Mittens. A nice response to the “hot chicks of Occupy” business.

Science toy company scraps gender segregation. Woo!

Lego, meanwhile, look a bit like they’re pandering to stereotyping in an effort to get more girls interested.

But Hamleys scraps those annoying gendered signs! Hurrah again!

And Doctor Nerdlove talks Nerds and Male Privilege.

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