This is the third of a six part series created for Bitch Magazine. Tropes vs. Women explores the reoccurring stories, themes and representations of women in Hollywood films and TV shows.
The Smurfette Principle was named two decades ago by Katha Pollitt, when she noticed that there were a disproportionate amount of male …
At this years WonderCon 2011 (a giant comic book convention taking place every year in downtown San Francisco) I got to check out some interesting panels such as “Comics for Social Justice: The Making of Oil and Water”, “Writing Queer: Creating and Writing LGBT Characters” and “A Brief Herstory of Gum Shoe Gals, …
This is the second of a six part series created for Bitch Magazine. Tropes vs. Women explores the reoccurring stories, themes and representations of women in Hollywood films and TV shows.
Women in Refrigerators is a trope identified by comic book fan (and now comic book writer) Gail Simone because she was sick of …
As soon as I saw the trailer for Sucker Punch I correctly guessed that it would be another adolescent boy fantasy masquerading as a pseudo-female-empowerment film. What I was surprised about however was how the mainstream media and the blog-o-sphere called Zach Snyder out on his disaster of a movie. Check out some of …
