hamleys – Bad Reputation A feminist pop culture adventure Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:00:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 37601771 In The Bleak Mid-Links-ter /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.
    • ]]>     /2011/12/16/in-the-bleak-mid-links-ter/feed/ 11 9060     STOP! Make a cup of tea. And have a linkpost with that biscuit. /2011/06/03/stop-make-a-cup-of-tea-and-have-a-linkpost-with-that-biscuit/ /2011/06/03/stop-make-a-cup-of-tea-and-have-a-linkpost-with-that-biscuit/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:00:21 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=5882 It’s Friday! Have some links. Ta for flying Air BadRep, etc etc.

    • First up, if you spotted McSweeney’s the other week and saw the mashup of PG Wodehouse and (yes) Brett Easton Ellis, PG Wodehouse’s American Psycho, that was Team BadRep member Rhian. Jean, in the Jeeves role, is neatly recast as the brains behind Bateman literally getting away with murder. Nice one!
    • Following on from that, Rhian blogs about gender and being a fan of American Psycho over on her own blog, Velvet Coalmine. (It’s been a busy week for Rhian; she’s already exploded VS Naipaul’s bizarre blathering without even trying, as several McSweeney readers immediately assumed she must be male on the basis of her writing…)
    • Texas! Not a good place to be a feminist! Right? Or… is it? Andrea Grimes over on Reality Check asks and answers the question: Why Should Feminists Stay In The Lone Star State?
    • Been up a couple of weeks now, but Michelle Dean at The Awl draws together the range of responses to Bridesmaids very well in a nice indictment of the sacred cows of Hollywood comedy.
    • The F Word are on the hunt for music reviewers!
    • Flippin’ ‘eck. The Empowering Girls blog pops to Hamleys. I knew they had floors for “GIRLS” and “BOYS”, but sometimes you need a pictorial tour to really get the reality of what that means. Christ. When I take random detours into Hamleys of an afternoon (and I do, because I like seeing what kids are into, PLUS I refuse to grow up), I stick to the ground floor, with all the gadgets and the 15-foot plush giraffe. And… well, I just remembered why. Also notable: why are all the art materials apparently on the “Girls” floor? I mean, seriously?
    • That Wikipedia gender gap debate: Nine Reasons Why Women Don’t Edit Wikipedia (in their own words), from Sue Gardner (Exec Director of the Wikimedia Foundation).
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