"'You can attack me, you can send assassins after me, that's fine. But nobody messes with my boyfriend.'- Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Feminism
Annoying 13-year-old finally gets flogged for bringing her cell phone to school. In Saudi Arabia.
By Superheidi on January 26th, 2010
A 13-year-old Saudi schoolgirl is to be given 90 lashes in front of her classmates after she was caught with a mobile camera phone, according to U.K. Daily Mail. The unnamed minor girl was also sentenced to two months in jail by a court in the eastern city of Jubail.
Ok, this sounds bad, but she allegedly 'assaulted' her headmistress after being caught with the gadget which is banned in girl schools, claims Al-Watan, a Saudi newspaper. Or DID she? What constitutes 'assualt'? Grabbing your phone back? Frankly, I'm not sure what a girl who lives in a country where she can't be alone with an unrelated man or see a movie or go to a concert uses an effing cell phone for...
Finals Week: 'Monstrous Feminism and the Avenging Amazon'
By Superheidi on December 18th, 2009
Monstrous Feminism and the Avenging Amazon By Paula Graham
On the whole, feminists and lesbians tend to treat the figure of the Amazon as a positive trope for lesbianism and/or feminism. On the one hand, she has the 'masculine' characteristics of strength, physicality and activity and, on the other, she is female-oriented. Her combination of male and female characteristics apparently undermines the exclusivity of gender categories. Her 'chastity' combined with her 'phallic' physicality has obvious lesbian implications. She is perceived by many lesbians and feminists as both 'positive' and 'subversive'...
Maude Michaud's new documentary 'Bloody Breasts: Women, Feminism & Horror'
By Superheidi on August 26th, 2009
Quirky Montrealean filmmaker Maude Michaud's new documentary project Bloody Breasts: Women, Feminism & Horror will ask questions like Is horror a genre that can only be enjoyed by men?. Does it still serve to reinforce desired gender roles/societal stereotypes? and Can a woman call herself a feminist AND still enjoy horror films? Fast on the heels of women-in-horror documentaries Pretty Bloody by Donna Davies and Welcome To My Darkside by Reyna Young, Bloody Breasts promises to fill in the gaps in the academic literature by providing a comprehensive outlook at female artists and consumers of horror...
Teeth (2008)
By Superheidi on January 7th, 2008
Directed by: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Featuring: Jess Weixler, Josh Pais, Hale Appleman, Ashley Springer, and John Hensley
www.teethmovie.com
Release Date: Jan 18 2008
Teeth is the oh-so mysterious horror film that has been harvesting so much talk in horror film circles since the Sundance screening over the Winter of '07. Teeth examines the deeply mythological and psychological themes surrounding Vagina Dentata – that is, literally, “Vagina with Teeth”. Director Lichtenstein (son of pop- and totally overrated- artist Roy Lichtenstein) centers his story around the virginal teenager Dawn who spontaneously grows teeth in her vagina when her desire for sex overcomes her desire to maintain her purity for religious reasons...
Feminism: an 'Alien' Ideology?
By Superheidi on February 17th, 2005
Ever since the days of silent pictures, science fiction and horror films have been standard genres of filmed entertainment. Watching a monster, human or not, man-made or otherwise, stomping through the countryside threatening lives, property and social stability has been a regular pleasure to the movie-going public for decades. Often, said monsters are seen carrying helpless, screaming women in their arms or tentacles, only to be later dispatched and the woman rescued by a strong, handsome hero. Women's roles in such films have usually been thus: the weak, ineffectual, and hysterical victim. How female characters in films like these are supposed to respond to the male characters, to other women, and to the monstrous threat at hand can be highly illustrative of the overriding composition of values, mores and expectations of roles and behaviors in a society...
