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Molestation Jokes are Hi-LARIOUS: Community 2×20 – “Competitive Wine Tasting”
I have a low tolerance for rape jokes. Even as someone who believes that comedy should take no prisoners, and that everyone and everything should be fair game for humor, I mostly find rape and molestation jokes abhorrent and not … Continue reading
I Love the Smell of Troll Droppings in the Morning…
Troll (n): one who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument. [Source: Urbandictionary.com]. I got my first troll dropping today. In response to my recent post about … Continue reading
Female Character of the Week: Lisa Simpson
We feminists put a lot of pressure on ourselves to be “perfect” women, and this struggle goes beyond the typical “Can I have a satisfying career and a family?” conflict. If we’re supposed to reject stereotypical gender roles, is it … Continue reading
O Apatow, Where Art Thou?
You may not believe this after watching movies such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad, and others of their ilk, but Judd Apatow used to know how to write for women. He also used to know how to write … Continue reading
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April Movies I Won’t Be Seeing (and One I Definitely Will)
Let’s see how the movie studios plan to help me keep my money this month. First up is Your Highness, starring several Academy Award nominees who like to go slumming every now and then: Summary: It’s a “satire” of a … Continue reading
Female Character of the Week: Jackie Brown
Quentin Tarantino is one of my favorite film directors for three reasons: 1) his whip-smart dialogue, 2) the way he plays with narrative structure, and 3) his strong female characters. While some of his movies have problematic elements from a … Continue reading
More Themed Episodes Community Can Do
Dan Harmon and the Community writing staff (and the actors as well, I’m sure) definitely love their themed episodes. In the past two seasons, we’ve seen spoofs of specific genres (the war/post-apocalyptic movie episode, the zombie movie episode, the mockumentary, … Continue reading
The Real Reason Women Love Mr. Darcy
Whenever I engage in a discussion of the relative merits of Jane Austen as a writer, the conversation inevitably returns to the subject of Mr. Darcy. Even if I’m trying to talk about Sense and Sensibility or Persuasion – you … Continue reading
Jeff Winger’s Little Indian Girl Story: (Delayed) Thoughts on Community 2×19 – “Critical Film Studies”
Last week on my favorite sitcom, Community fans tuned in to watch the Pulp Fiction-themed episode that NBC had been heavily promoting. At the end of the half hour, the fans cried foul that they had been denied a real … Continue reading
Gender-Neutral Compliments: Look to the Yiddish
It is common practice among us potty-mouthed people to describe a courageous man as having “balls.” If a man’s courage comes into question, we wonder, “Does he have the balls to take this action?” Sometimes we even compliment women by … Continue reading