January 2010
18 posts
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Me too!
twyst:
I know that Male Sheppard is used in most of the marketing for Mass Effect 2 (and 1). I am not totally oblivious to the world. I know that his face is based on a model, and that therefore he is used most of the time.
This doesnt mean that i have to like it, and it doesnt mean i wont say so. Jennifer Hale said, in her interview with Destructoid, that if you like Female Sheppard, to let...
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“Feminists insist that men are not animals. Instead, men are rational human...”
– Jill Filipovic, “Offensive Feminism: The Conservative Gender Norms that Perpetuate Rape Culture, and How Feminists Can Fight Back,” Yes Means Yes, pp. 20-1
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“So Bayonetta is a movie co-directed by Tarantino and John Waters about oversexed...”
– Cap’n Perkins, after showing him the cutscene intro for the Prologue of Bayonetta
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“That day in court was the day I fully understood the concept of being raped...”
– Latoya Peterson, “The Not-Rape Epidemic,” Yes Means Yes, p. 216
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“THINK LONG-TERM. Finally, remember that your efforts won’t instantly...”
– Jennifer L. Pozner, “How to Reclaim, Reframe, and Reform the Media: A Feminist Advocacy Guide,” BITCHfest, p. 352
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“America’s early attraction to various forms of scientific eating may also...”
– Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, pp. 57-8
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“By now, the progression of name-calling from forbidden to fashionable should be...”
– Rachel Fudge, “Bias Cut: Old Racism as New Fashion,” Fall 2004, BITCHfest, pp. 325-6
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“Political actions themselves can easily become commodified in this...”
– Lisa Jervis, “Talking Back: Activism and Pop Culture,” BITCHfest, p. 329
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“I said yes because I felt it was too much trouble to say no. I said yes because...”
– Margaret Cho, Foreward to Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power & a World Without Rape, p. 3
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“Because sexuality in the twentieth-century sense—sexual desire, urges,...”
– Don Romesburg, “Hole Fratrimony: Male Bonding and the New Homosociality,” 2004, BITCHfest, p. 208
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“The mean girl has been absorbed as a pop culture figure, while any insight...”
– Gabrielle Moss, Winter 2005, “Teen Mean Fighting Machine: Why Does the Media Love Mean Girls?” BITCHfest, page 47
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“The leaf was the most game-like and mocking aspect. If you go around in real...”
– Cap’n Perkins, discussing Every Day the Same Dream
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“Even more important is the incomplete transformation of the unwritten cultural...”
– Lisa Jervis, “Desire: Love, Sex, and Marketing,” BITCHfest, pp 163-4
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“And while the phenomenon of girl power has itself faded from the limelight—along...”
– Rachel Fudge, “Girl, Unreconstructed: Why Girl Power Is Bad for Feminism,” 2006, BITCHfest, pp. 155, 160
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“For many, slash has become a potent way to personalize interactions with a show,...”
– Noy Thrupkaew, Spring 2003, “Fan/Tastic Voyage: Rewriting Gender in the Wide, Wild World of Slash Fiction,” BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, page 197
Function
I read a lot.
During my reading, I come across a lot of quotations that strike me. This is a place to compile and share those.