Meta tags:
description= feminism, movies, pop culture;
Headings (most frequently used words):
2014, the, august, of, june, 2015, my, tv, ever, girl, and, is, late, to, feminéma, testament, youth, occludes, politics, for, romance, pitch, movie, version, bob, mcdonnell, corruption, case, greatest, review, garden, state, manly, thick, eyebrow, complaint, about, scandal, valley, accent, manifesto, arrival, riot, grrrl, orange, new, black, has, best, antagonist, it, woman, greetings, from, summer, again, party, louie, fat, allison, tolman, real, reason, watch, fargo, veronica, mars, nine, years, later, pages, top, posts, gloria, swanson, 2013, film, reviewed, with, occasional, 2012, films, archives, recent, comments, anna, may, wong, blogroll, follow, blog, via, email, categories, carole, lombard, gabourey, sidibe, july, 31, 15, 14, 12, 10, 13,
Text of the page (most frequently used words):
the (383), and (142), that (91), her (67), for (51), this (49), with (48), she (43), but (41), you (39), film (35), girl (31), women (30), films (29), about (27), have (23), veronica (23), not (23), like (22), one (22), was (20), now (18), girls (18), woman (18), all (18), just (18), has (18), new (17), #valley (17), who (17), 2014 (17), how (17), series (17), they (17), can (16), female (15), 2011 (15), 2012 (15), 2013 (15), vee (15), black (14), from (13), case (13), real (13), way (13), when (13), 2010 (12), years (12), feminism (12), fat (12), his (12), what (12), which (12), will (12), comments (11), love (11), august (11), didion (11), say (11), world (10), great (10), movie (10), still (10), out (10), into (10), why (10), ever (10), filed (10), posted (10), those (10), him (10), than (10), its (9), your (9), life (9), know (9), feminist (9), june (9), best (9), because (9), first (9), show (9), part (9), other (8), mars (8), were (8), two (8), man (8), may (8), hanna (8), before (8), tolman (8), problem (8), time (8), tags (8), think (8), only (8), even (8), sure (8), back (8), bob (8), name (7), feminéma (7), blog (7), louie (7), media (7), more (7), testament (7), youth (7), voice (7), high (7), school (7), song (7), look (7), going (7), friends (7), don (7), july (7), curious (7), war (7), good (7), logan (7), let (7), version (7), full (7), watch (7), taystee (7), had (7), get (6), work (6), rock (6), our (6), orange (6), men (6), noir (6), punk (6), singer (6), enough (6), days (6), guy (6), brittain (6), matters (6), gay (6), beautiful (6), been (6), never (6), seems (6), again (6), seen (6), many (6), made (6), feel (6), accent (6), episode (6), then (6), stupid (6), antagonist (6), riot (6), state (6), portray (6), email (5), writing (5), smart (5), fargo (5), movies (5), here (5), talk (5), queen (5), brothers (5), something (5), else (5), night (5), amazing (5), better (5), people (5), very (5), long (5), sarah (5), george (5), vera (5), suzanne (5), natalie (5), portman (5), williams (5), allison (5), find (5), self (5), march (5), april (5), history (5), someone (5), sense (5), old (5), much (5), every (5), maybe (5), too (5), things (5), see (5), most (5), watching (5), well (5), character (5), louis (5), whole (5), their (5), make (5), anything (5), powerful (5), right (5), grrrl (5), over (5), garden (5), mcdonnell (5), wordpress (4), com (4), required (4), bar (4), sign (4), politics (4), true (4), political (4), family (4), house (4), cards (4), dark (4), where (4), kevin (4), die (4), lady (4), blue (4), take (4), summer (4), nine (4), ways (4), wait (4), half (4), mind (4), moon (4), enlightened (4), phobia (4), susan (4), smith (4), bell (4), clooney (4), 2010s (4), mouth (4), september (4), october (4), november (4), december (4), january (4), february (4), hair (4), end (4), piz (4), could (4), found (4), also (4), thing (4), between (4), might (4), reason (4), without (4), getting (4), era (4), almost (4), really (4), each (4), mean (4), does (4), always (4), hard (4), themselves (4), matter (4), funny (4), should (4), scene (4), eyes (4), scenes (4), another (4), during (4), down (4), bang (4), alan (4), such (4), prison (4), lead (4), being (4), culture (4), scandal (4), write (3), top (3), lake (3), star (3), friend (3), little (3), gloria (3), own (3), words (3), times (3), teen (3), costume (3), gender (3), young (3), white (3), need (3), square (3), year (3), social (3), american (3), heat (3), fall (3), power (3), tell (3), sound (3), wrong (3), light (3), effects (3), magic (3), reunion (3), red (3), joan (3), mother (3), midnight (3), lost (3), margaret (3), linda (3), laura (3), late (3), jane (3), home (3), head (3), elysium (3), michael (3), julie (3), jean (3), douglas (3), david (3), coen (3), anna (3), bitch (3), michelle (3), kate (3), amanda (3), silly (3), whatever (3), race (3), feminema (3), ideas (3), images (3), 2000s (3), 1990s (3), 1980s (3), 2015 (3), big (3), minute (3), complaint (3), police (3), force (3), etc (3), ago (3), damn (3), feels (3), reasons (3), finds (3), crazy (3), drama (3), wallace (3), mac (3), around (3), murder (3), capacity (3), since (3), job (3), kind (3), actor (3), course (3), after (3), later (3), remains (3), against (3), characters (3), freeman (3), colin (3), hanks (3), attention (3), minnesota (3), wears (3), male (3), point (3), did (3), parker (3), fact (3), vanessa (3), yet (3), speak (3), fun (3), last (3), spacey (3), everything (3), throughout (3), learned (3), maternal (3), loyalty (3), exactly (3), second (3), gos (3), rebel (3), zappa (3), kathleen (3), glory (3), lot (3), valspeak (3), moment (3), order (3), pop (3), pretty (3), sounded (3), got (3), alicia (3), some (3), thick (3), eyebrows (3), zach (3), braff (3), age (3), are (3), lifetime (3), book (3), design (2), site (2), comment (2), collapse (2), view (2), log (2), subscribed (2), subscribe (2), already (2), account (2), join (2), gabourey (2), sidibe (2), carole (2), lombard (2), under (2), miniseries (2), blood (2), killing (2), bridge (2), americans (2), south (2), riding (2), party (2), robin (2), pride (2), parks (2), recreation (2), mildred (2), pierce (2), shows (2), rachel (2), news (2), york (2), guns (2), weepers (2), horror (2), revenge (2), buddy (2), cult (2), dramas (2), mommy (2), myth (2), hollywood (2), code (2), sister (2), ends (2), weekend (2), virgin (2), twilight (2), deeply (2), soldier (2), louise (2), living (2), wall (2), wand (2), third (2), network (2), return (2), cross (2), train (2), gatsby (2), future (2), fifth (2), estate (2), east (2), deep (2), sea (2), bloom (2), bling (2), ring (2), agnes (2), bad (2), waltz (2), story (2), martha (2), stories (2), aruitemo (2), wild (2), snow (2), huntsman (2), silent (2), side (2), sex (2), lies (2), off (2), rough (2), bridesmaids (2), populaire (2), give (2), passion (2), nest (2), jessica (2), hunter (2), wind (2), career (2), marlene (2), silence (2), heaven (2), happy (2), together (2), dragon (2), money (2), eternal (2), said (2), easy (2), double (2), cat (2), carlos (2), brief (2), blancanieves (2), swan (2), beauty (2), room (2), slave (2), awards (2), directors (2), wong (2), sofia (2), paul (2), thomas (2), matthew (2), lena (2), julian (2), scott (2), bergman (2), claire (2), cary (2), andrea (2), brittney (2), griner (2), gary (2), charlotte (2), davis (2), sophia (2), gordon (2), russell (2), molly (2), shannon (2), foster (2), jennifer (2), swanson (2), gael (2), garcía (2), bernal (2), emma (2), grant (2), brit (2), marling (2), barbara (2), lie (2), actors (2), abortion (2), walk (2), amusing (2), books (2), probably (2), cinema (2), awesome (2), plot (2), list (2), issues (2), 1970s (2), 1960s (2), address (2), enter (2), follow (2), posts (2), via (2), these (2), music (2), recent (2), archives (2), broken (2), happily (2), tells (2), rules (2), piece (2), loved (2), didn (2), tina (2), majorino (2), percy (2), daggs (2), iii (2), max (2), greenfield (2), kristen (2), jonathan (2), chesner (2), jason (2), dohring (2), francis (2), capra (2), enrico (2), colantoni (2), chris (2), lowell (2), noret (2), seriously (2), though (2), kissing (2), important (2), mythopoeic (2), detective (2), corruption (2), works (2), question (2), hour (2), clear (2), corrupt (2), law (2), serious (2), kisser (2), enjoy (2), appearance (2), doubts (2), line (2), appeal (2), taking (2), clean (2), herself (2), relationship (2), ruined (2), them (2), while (2), gets (2), credit (2), changed (2), claims (2), soft (2), peppered (2), once (2), himself (2), public (2), post (2), lawyer (2), control (2), offers (2), role (2), whose (2), father (2), absolutely (2), fans (2), especially (2), till (2), knows (2), anyone (2), couldn (2), privileged (2), realize (2), directed (2), sharp (2), perfect (2), whom (2), ran (2), means (2), wonderful (2), genius (2), ended (2), soon (2), martin (2), odenkirk (2), billy (2), thornton (2), saying (2), through (2), understand (2), major (2), prone (2), playing (2), combination (2), hit (2), terrific (2), created (2), writers (2), visual (2), different (2), nor (2), sort (2), fallen (2), baker (2), posey (2), wrote (2), moments (2), meeting (2), having (2), virginia (2), uncomfortable (2), puts (2), making (2), doesn (2), lets (2), behalf (2), guys (2), along (2), spent (2), meal (2), restaurant (2), departed (2), couple (2), hardly (2), doing (2), present (2), complicated (2), aspects (2), falls (2), yorker (2), uzo (2), aduba (2), knight (2), se7en (2), samira (2), wiley (2), lorraine (2), toussaint (2), mulgrew (2), heath (2), ledger (2), danielle (2), rickman (2), stop (2), forever (2), finish (2), season (2), partly (2), use (2), saw (2), worth (2), learn (2), using (2), insight (2), makes (2), speaks (2), goes (2), talking (2), small (2), same (2), tough (2), poussey (2), lacked (2), drug (2), knew (2), pretenders (2), ruin (2), pegs (2), siouxie (2), sioux (2), pat (2), benatar (2), tigre (2), jett (2), blondie (2), bikini (2), kill (2), annie (2), lennox (2), far (2), wasn (2), 90s (2), documentary (2), ohmigod (2), sentences (2), allowed (2), heard (2), developing (2), unique (2), there (2), mocking (2), generation (2), younger (2), early (2), 80s (2), began (2), wanted (2), sounds (2), tony (2), goldwyn (2), kerry (2), washington (2), gregory (2), peck (2), bates (2), myself (2), personal (2), whatsoever (2), would (2), final (2), laugh (2), yourself (2), worst (2), done (2), record (2), read (2), clearly (2), marriage (2), jonnie (2), creepy (2), based (2), ideal (2), apparently (2), solved (2), maureen (2), break (2), any (2), play (2), damon (2), bit (2), okay (2), weeper (2), kit (2), harington (2), vikander (2), clothes (2), roland (2), mattered (2), came (2), instead (2), sad (2), wishes (2), started, website, loading, manage, subscriptions, reader, report, content, privacy, 307, subscribers, licensed, creative, commons, attribution, noncommercial, sharealike, unported, license, discontents, cup, advertising, religion, uncategorized, vanity, fair, 1998, wire, forsyte, saga, 2002, tenant, wildfell, hall, trek, slings, arrows, hood, prime, suspect, prejudice, animals, mutual, north, modern, middlemarch, mad, dorrit, lark, rise, candleford, justified, expectations, hbo, glee, downton, abbey, deadwood, buffy, vampire, slayer, arrested, development, texas, television, spinsters, bachelors, rape, maddow, 150, dramedies, screwball, comedy, scary, romantic, comedies, magical, realism, french, existence, pictures, fairy, tales, rockers, monsters, children, argentinian, genres, track, production, hays, gap, 264, zero, thirty, adult, xxy, wuthering, heights, winter, bone, wings, wing, chun, material, whip, sidewalk, waste, land, spring, samurai, turn, dammit, truly, madly, grit, tree, titus, tiny, furniture, tinker, tailor, spy, thumbsucker, england, thelma, dangerously, whistleblower, wasp, suicides, unknown, tempest, secret, arrietty, runaways, navajo, boy, piano, painted, veil, orphanage, orfanato, sleepover, merrier, mill, master, homme, maid, nana, eve, interrupters, hurt, locker, hunger, games, holy, nina, santa, hedgehog, herisson, headless, hairy, bird, wanna, strike, godfather, parts, fisher, king, edge, disappearance, alice, creed, angel, mixtape, 1967, 1975, beaches, seed, avengers, artist, arbor, tampopo, shelter, tabloid, sympathy, vengeance, superstar, karen, carpenter, sunrise, hours, sugar, strange, ivers, walking, spirited, away, sorry, number, somewhere, 1961, skyscraper, souls, silver, linings, playbook, sidewalls, medianeras, videotape, set, séraphine, romy, michele, repo, ratcatcher, raising, arizona, raggedy, outer, space, prometheus, princesse, montpensier, princess, mononoke, prey, roll, practical, poetry, please, arc, pariah, pandora, box, sight, oss, 117, cairo, spies, oslo, gods, notorious, nobody, poupoupidou, killed, five, nausicaa, winnipeg, julia, ross, brilliant, madeo, miss, bala, miral, paris, micmacs, mesa, everyone, marcy, marie, antoinette, mansfield, park, push, cart, lust, caution, lovely, serenade, translation, both, local, hero, quattro, volte, autumn, larry, crowne, ladies, gentlemen, fabulous, stains, mujer, sin, cabeza, confidential, cienaga, kenny, eyre, mood, wish, hysteria, holidays, holiday, higher, ground, 1943, heartbreaker, arnacoeur, gegen, harlan, county, usa, nelson, hairspray, growing, greenberg, goodbye, solo, tattoo, played, fire, kicked, hornet, gaslight, kids, frida, fish, tank, farewell, concubine, sunshine, spotless, indemnity, jon, diary, devil, desperate, teenage, lovedolls, departures, decasia, damsels, distress, crouching, tiger, hidden, cracks, connie, carla, cold, comfort, farm, circumstance, chop, shop, chef, carrie, bugsy, malone, brokeback, mountain, broadcast, encounter, brave, bluebeard, barbe, bleue, venus, noire, beyond, dolls, bernie, beginners, sunset, beast, 1946, beasts, southern, badlands, revoir, les, enfants, education, amreeka, graffiti, amelie, alexandra, albert, nobbs, across, universe, engagement, touch, zen, royal, affair, kongelig, affære, dangerous, method, charing, road, preservation, access, prizes, teaching, academia, ambition, sexism, elena, kagan, factor, 127, yasujirō, ozu, woody, allen, kar, wai, vittorio, sica, todd, haynes, terrence, malick, tarsem, singh, susanne, bier, steven, soderbergh, coppola, watt, polley, ramin, bahrani, preston, sturges, anderson, nicole, holofcener, nadine, labaki, miranda, mike, mills, powell, weiner, maryam, keshavarz, lynne, ramsay, lucy, walker, lucrecia, martel, lucia, puenzo, dunham, kathryn, bigelow, taymor, schnabel, joss, whedon, jordan, joachim, trier, pierre, jeunet, campion, ingmar, hirokazu, kore, eda, hayao, miyazaki, maddin, gillian, armstrong, cukor, pabst, murnau, errol, morris, ernst, lubitsch, eric, rohmer, sirk, donald, ogden, stewart, debra, granik, dearbhla, walsh, thomson, simon, fincher, denis, cherien, dabis, catherine, breillat, joji, fukunaga, carl, theodor, dreyer, boden, ryan, fleck, ang, lee, andrew, davies, arnold, alfred, hitchcock, varda, aaron, sorkin, screenwriters, debrahlee, lorenzano, mag, bite, collins, faludi, stevie, steig, larsson, siri, hustvedt, simone, beavoir, muriel, barbery, atwood, manohla, dargis, ingalls, wilder, rosin, shteyngart, fitzgerald, lockhart, messud, perkins, gilman, charles, dickens, cathleen, schine, alison, bechdel, authors, 183, william, holden, wendy, hiller, viola, farmiga, toni, collette, timothy, olyphant, tilda, swinton, tang, wei, sarandon, loren, vergara, sissy, spacek, shareeka, epps, setsuko, hara, saoirse, ronan, sandra, bullock, sandi, mccree, samantha, morton, ruth, crowe, rooney, mara, romain, duris, wright, richard, armitage, weisz, gross, orson, welles, norma, shearer, noomi, rapace, mireille, enos, yeoh, forbes, fassbender, mia, wasikowska, meryl, streep, melle, falconetti, melissa, mccarthy, maya, rudolph, macfadyen, marlyne, afflack, dietrich, marisa, tomei, sullavan, maggie, lupita, nyong, brooks, lou, pucci, lillian, gish, horne, kirsten, dunst, keri, keira, knightley, keanu, reeves, katie, jarvis, katharine, hepburn, winslet, joseph, levitt, jodie, chastain, jesse, eisenberg, lopez, lawrence, dujardin, arthur, lynch, ingrid, holly, helen, mirren, halle, berry, greta, gerwig, ginger, rogers, gina, gershon, gene, tierney, geena, cooper, freida, pinto, faye, dunaway, ewan, mcgregor, thompson, stone, ellen, page, elizabeth, taylor, diane, lane, constance, bennett, clara, bow, rampling, charlize, theron, carey, mulligan, cantica, untaru, bridget, fonda, stanwyck, ashley, judd, anne, bancroft, paquin, riseborough, anders, danielsen, amy, poehler, plummer, 452, 182, critics, 140, 139, asian, jefita, athletes, recurring, themes, 198, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, categories, receive, notifications, unexplained, solipsistic, styled, siren, lotus, notebooks, fantom, country, mirror, kartina, richardson, lycanthropia, katha, pollitt, nation, justmemike, arts, wear, outside, blame, patriarchy, historiann, feministing, feministe, geek, frequency, magazine, ehrenreich, angry, blogroll, cruickshank, athl, inspiration, radicalism, commandercookiewolf, cris, dear, maria, select, month, invisible, survive, plague, cameras, gun, act, twelve, reviewed, occasional, filmic, begin, win, 2008, moonstruck, 1987, reconsidered, suspend, skepticism, stating, obvious, returning, woods, dystopia, conversation, crying, dancing, mistakes, subtle, significance, onscreen, search, lists, progress, pages, older, entries, surely, sheer, laziness, lingering, won, nature, navigating, poisonous, passed, enjoyed, cameos, repartee, revived, flames, besides, pilot, briefly, revamped, date, episodes, director, rob, certainly, left, openings, knowledge, reckoned, calm, primary, tag, sociopath, tries, resist, likens, addiction, recovery, chip, pouring, drink, swishing, smelling, leaving, sip, dug, clothing, nighttime, sleuthing, scented, believe, conspiracy, afoot, convertible, lit, water, neon, jonesing, connection, epic, spanning, continents, lives, bloodshed, throws, believes, wonder, trouble, corner, slipped, baggage, chimes, charged, duty, navy, unusually, spoken, lacking, sociopathic, tendencies, possessed, stand, hand, past, returned, town, accused, haven, remained, radio, boyfriend, verge, landing, corporate, agrees, help, defense, pleasures, least, managed, relevant, reprise, awful, madison, sinclair, stoner, corny, squeal, delight, temporary, flame, leo, amato, mention, crucial, including, weevil, lucky, plots, pivots, neptune, otherwise, shake, confluence, familiar, faces, details, below, doubt, paying, propel, length, feature, famously, millions, fan, driven, kickstarter, dollars, considering, sharpness, surprised, opposite, narrator, bitchiness, underlay, success, meanness, overprivileged, douchebags, cops, rest, gossip, forgetting, marshall, heroes, razor, nose, jawline, cutting, humor, fundamentally, sadness, loneliness, weirdly, 2004, 2007, seasons, bitterness, vividly, explained, class, battles, haves, nots, cynically, reminded, wealthy, insulate, justice, tried, fix, vinnie, van, lowe, comic, dick, casablancas, worthy, cal, acting, starting, grow, overacts, roles, slightly, peeved, insistence, yuks, lingo, low, iqs, keep, alone, discovery, talent, heavier, actresses, god, size, gasp, opening, gorgeous, wide, alternates, observing, open, pursing, thought, perhaps, judgment, start, modesty, obsessive, perceptive, views, crimes, laughs, trained, comedian, rather, connect, shyness, naïveté, determination, brings, persuasion, stars, riveting, mercurial, hamming, implausible, hapless, lester, nygaard, dense, chief, singularly, unlucky, duluth, officer, adam, goldberg, competing, memorably, delivers, lines, language, kitschy, landscape, uses, 1996, jumping, touchstone, assert, tricks, solverson, neither, central, astute, becomes, defuse, tension, complain, creator, attack, worthwhile, abiding, fascination, recount, bawled, favorites, captain, john, pocahontas, london, 1617, rip, failing, observe, kinship, cemented, condemning, english, propensity, recounts, speech, loves, viewers, protagonist, middle, strangest, cringe, cook, exception, phrasing, complaints, confrontation, averse, types, sympathies, ricochet, forcing, perspective, rant, represent, says, hate, seven, minutes, setup, available, riverfront, hearted, lights, consider, interested, flirts, asks, turns, nota, bene, ate, nadir, destructiveness, eat, showing, dating, miami, shlubbyness, dates, aired, weeks, caught, reeling, mostly, inbox, novel, sunscreen
Text of the page (random words):
them gregory peck as atticus finch alan bates in case you don t recognize him george clooney from the er days ahh that feels better back to more serious feminist work soon i promise posted by didion filed in 1960s films 1970s films 1980s films 1990s films 2000s films beautiful images i like to look at george clooney silly whatever that i find amusing tags alan bates davy jones george clooney gregory peck javier bardem kerry washington nicolas cage scandal shaun cassidy tony goldwyn 4 comments my valley girl accent manifesto and the arrival of riot grrrl 12 august 2014 it sounds silly now of course when someone starts up in valspeak she sounds stupid but let me explain how wrong and simplistic that is i m going to argue that riot grrrl was born of valley girl just wait till you seen how i get there it didn t sound stupid if you were younger than say 15 in the early 80s when the valley girl accent began circulating on shows like square pegs and the classic moon zappa song and thence into schoolyards everywhere that s how kathleen hanna revered feminist lead singer of riot grrrl bands like bikini kill le tigre and now the julie ruin explains her adoption of the accent while a pre teen in maryland we wanted to be the kinds of girls who had credit cards she remembers in the terrific documentary the punk singer 2013 now streaming on netflix to her it sounded posh the voice of rich girls one of her friends adds that it just goes to show you that you be just like some valley girl and you still can be smart and have feminist ideas and should be listened to another perk watching this doc puts the song rebel girl in your head for days i was never as dedicated to valspeak as hanna she still talks that way but i can attest to its appeal back then it sounded smart i know right but valley girls were fast talkers quick witted opinionated and they pronounced everything perfectly in those clipped accents they had a lot to say let us not forget cher alicia silverstone in clueless 1995 a second generation valley girl whose speeches regularly inspired applause from her classmates if you were young it was easy to hear this as smart as girls figuring out what they had to say by holding forth it was funny moon zappa s song was a spoof on the dimwitted female mall shoppers out in the deeply suburban san fernando valley much farther from la than you might imagine if you re not from there and i m pretty sure we all understood that but those who heard this only as mocking of the girls were missing something to me it sounded self mocking with all those ohmigod s and i m so sure s girls talked this way in part because they knew they were being funny and they got a charge from being part of the fun it was a dialect unique to girls and therefore it became a part of girl culture one of the many ways that girls created a world unto themselves sure it had tinges of sameness and uniformity but different girl groups innovated endlessly on its basic elements always developing new ways to speak to each other and to cloak their girl talk from outsiders i never heard the valley guy version of this talk in the same way it lacked the private club aspects of valley girl talk but maybe that s because i wasn t a part of those clubs it allowed you to do fun things with your voice valley girls ran the gamut of the vocal scales just a single ohmigod required the speaker to cock one s voice up a couple of octaves midway and then allow the voice to collapse back to earth of its own weight the accent is partly so distinctive not for what girls say than for the kooky musical sound of their rambling sentences like a bouncy new wave pop song of that era doing that stuff with your voice required practice just like learning to dance like belinda carlisle of the go gos the documentary about kathleen hanna makes a point of discussing her valley girl accent because it seems incongruous how is it that such a diehard feminist a woman who scrawled incest on her chest screamed into the microphone sang about sexual abuse and changed the masculine culture of those punk nightclubs could speak in a way that undermines the seriousness of her words after all long ago i learned to stop talking that way in order to be taken seriously but that stereotype has been twisted by time and by the ongoing cultural sense that anything girls do must be stupid valspeak wasn t just a marker of stupid girls saying stupid things nor was it a supreme moment of girl stupidity that had to be repudiated by the riot grrrls of the 90s let me say something controversial riot grrrl was a movement that stood on the shoulders of valley girl with valley girl we learned to talk quickly smartly to each other it was of a piece with the dribs and drabs of female rock music of the era the pretenders joan jett pat benatar the go gos blondie annie lennox siouxie sioux etc that had a lot to say about being female could hanna s overt feminism have been far behind sigh the only downside of watching the punk singer is realizing how far we ve fallen since the glory days of riot grrrl i hanna rebel girl you re the queen of my world posted by didion filed in 1980s films 2010s films the curious case of women in film the punk singer the woman problem in the media why feminism matters now women in rock tags annie lennox bikini kill blondie joan jett kathleen hanna le tigre moon zappa pat benatar rebel girl siouxie sioux square pegs the go gos the julie ruin the pretenders the punk singer valley girl valley guy song 2 comments orange is the new black has the best antagonist ever it s a woman 10 august 2014 this is lorraine toussaint as yvonne vee parker we might call her a new character in orange is the new black s second season but she s well known to two of litchfield s current inmates for complicated reasons she is the best female antagonist i ve ever seen and one of the best antagonists ever to taystee danielle williams vee is the foster mother who finally gave her a home sure that home was the locus of a powerful drug corporation but vee knew how to inspire loyalty and a sense of family and we can see her use exactly the right strings to pull taystee back to transform her into the loyal soldier she used to be before prison in flashbacks we learn exactly how vee has earned such loyalty from taystee by providing exactly that feeling of belonging and family as well as just the right dose of race pride that her life lacked beforehand moreover vee is the best possible mother smart powerful admirable the fact that she runs a drug empire is incidental to her maternal effects on the lonely taystee once taystee is on board vee pursues the loyalty of a small group of other young black women to build her prison family using a variety of the same techniques carefully calibrated to each woman maternal gentleness tough love gestures to racial unity and vague promises of uplift and power but not taystee s gay best friend poussey samira wiley whom the new yorker s emily nussbaum aptly describes as radiant vee persuades taystee to join in the exclusion and demonization of poussey a mean girl process so real and devastating that i almost couldn t watch those scenes red kate mulgrew also has a history with vee but in her case it goes back to earlier prison days as competitors for control of the prison s black market witnessing red s anxiety about talking to the leonine vee for the first time gives us an insight into her character that we hadn t seen before for the first time in years she worries that her aging will lead vee to sniff out her weakness in anticipation she visits sophia s salon to amp up her fierceness and yet when they meet they embrace warmly like old friends indeed it is vee s capacity to convey warmth and insight that makes her so powerful and so capable of deception witness her effect on the perpetual outsider suzanne crazy eyes uzo aduba she insists on calling her suzanne with a few correcting glances from vee suzanne stops undermining herself and her mental stability and speaks with new confidence under to heat of that seeming maternal affection and guidance suzanne glows like a light bulb and happily serves as vee s henchman the muscles to vee s brains with everything else going on for me this summer it took me forever to finish season 2 but throughout i marveled at the manipulative twists and maneuvers of vee who is the best antagonist i ve seen in forever and it s partly such a great character because she s a woman who has learned to use people s assumptions about her to her advantage think about it we love a good bad guy alan rickman in die hard heath ledger as the joker in the dark knight kevin spacey as the horrifically bible obsessed baddie in se7en but when was the last time you saw a female antagonist worth remembering for all the reasons why women learn how to extract power and manipulate others using their femininity but don t get me wrong this is not just a portrayal of a great female antagonist this is the best antagonist in years full stop feast your eyes friends posted by didion filed in orange is the new black race in film the curious case of women in film the woman problem in the media why feminism matters now tags alan rickman danielle williams die hard heath ledger kate mulgrew kevin spacey lorraine toussaint orange is the new black samira wiley se7en the dark knight uzo aduba 3 comments greetings from summer 13 june 2014 sunscreen novel s back issues of the new yorker mostly clean inbox posted by didion filed in beautiful images i like to look at 6 comments late again to the party louie and the fat girl 7 june 2014 this episode aired weeks ago but i only caught up with it last night and my mind is still reeling the tv series louie 2010 present does a better job of showing us the uncomfortable complicated aspects of dating that amazing episode in which he sort of falls for the guy in miami than almost anything else i ve seen but no matter louis ck s shlubbyness he dates women who look like parker posey so consider me interested in this episode so did the fat lady when a funny fat woman flirts with him and asks him out and louis turns her down nota bene he spent the first part of the episode with a buddy on a bang bang that is they ate a full meal together at one restaurant then departed to another restaurant for another full meal it is the nadir of self destructiveness by a couple of fat guys they hardly speak as they eat themselves stupid during this bang bang they re not doing it for fun yet when louis and vanessa sarah baker walk along the riverfront and he offers her a half hearted you re not fat she lights into him on behalf of all the fat girls i m making you represent all the guys vanessa says why do you hate us so much and for an amazing seven minutes she lets him have it you should watch the full episode for the whole setup but the scene is available here louie loves to make its viewers uncomfortable the whole series puts its protagonist in the middle of the strangest most cringe making scenes it can cook up this one is no exception vanessa doesn t let up phrasing her complaints in a way that make us confrontation averse types watch our sympathies ricochet between her and louie she lets him have it but not without forcing you to see her perspective it s a genius rant one could complain and they have that the show s creator louis ck wrote the whole thing but i m not sure that line of attack is worthwhile in fact i have an abiding fascination with other moments in history when male writers recount amazing moments when they found themselves absolutely bawled out by a woman one of my favorites is captain john smith s account of meeting pocahontas in london in 1617 and having her rip him a new one for failing to observe the rules of kinship cemented during their time in virginia smith recounts her speech in full which ends condemning the english for their propensity to lie i m still not sure how i feel about the end of the scene as the two defuse the tension but what an amazing thing to see on tv what did you think posted by didion filed in enlightened fat phobia louie the curious case of women in film the woman problem in the media why feminism matters now tags fat girls fat phobia feminism louie louis ck parker posey sarah baker so did the fat lady 4 comments allison tolman is the real reason to watch fargo 5 june 2014 at first she seems like she s going to be just another part of the kitschy minnesota social landscape as created by the writers of fargo a series that uses the coen brothers 1996 film as a jumping off point and visual touchstone for a different story which they assert is true the show tricks you at first the character of molly solverson seems neither as central nor as astute a detective as she becomes by episode 2 or 3 but by that time you ve sort of fallen in love with her tolman is heavier than most tv actresses by which god knows she probably wears a women s size 10 gasp and prone to opening her gorgeous blue eyes just about as wide as they ll go she alternates observing a scene with an open mouth and pursing that mouth in thought and perhaps a little judgment all of which means that as you start to fall in love with her her modesty and her obsessive perceptive views of the people and crimes around her you realize that tolman is not playing this for laughs even as she is trained as a comedian rather we enter into the series via those beautiful eyes and connect to it through her combination of shyness naïveté and determination she brings a soft persuasion to all her scenes which is hard to do in a room full of big actors the show is getting attention for all its male stars billy bob thornton as the riveting mercurial hit man really he s wonderful here martin freeman hamming it up with an implausible minnesota accent as the hapless lester nygaard the terrific bob odenkirk as the dense new chief of police colin hanks as a singularly unlucky duluth police officer and adam goldberg as a competing hit man who memorably delivers half his lines in american sign language what i m saying is that our attention is and should be directed at tolman who is the real reason why the series works freeman s acting is starting to grow on me even though i still think he overacts his way through every scene i don t understand why colin hanks gets so many great roles well maybe i do understand and i feel slightly peeved at the show s insistence on getting so many yuks from minnesota lingo and way too many characters with low iqs but i ll keep watching for allison tolman alone she is a major discovery and a major talent damn posted by didion filed in 1990s films allison tolman enlightened fat phobia fargo the curious case of women in film the deep blue sea the woman problem in the media why feminism matters now women with guns tags allison tolman billy bob thornton bob odenkirk coen brothers colin hanks fargo series feminism martin freeman 8 comments veronica mars 2014 nine years later 4 june 2014 i l...
|
