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Things We Saw Today: The Argo-Vengers Are Here to Save the Day
by Rebecca Pahle | 5:00 pm, February 21st, 2013
Argo-Vengers, directed by Daredevil. Head to TheFW for more Oscar Movie Mashups We Want to See.
- I used to crochet, and just thinking about making this 0.8 inch micro crochet mohair panda is making my eyes hurt. It is awfully cute, though… (The Frisky)
- Alyssa Rosenberg at ThinkProgress writes An Ethical Guide to Consuming Content Created By Awful People Like Orson Scott Card
- Geekosystem tells us what there is to know about the just-announced PlayStation 4 (so far).
Attention, knitting, coffee-drinking Whovians: The pattern for this Dalek French Press Cozy is available for free on Ravelry. CAF-FEIN-ATE. (by Coryna Blasko, via That’s Nerdalicious)
- A Facebook game, Half the Sky Movement: The Game endeavors to harness the power of social media games to increase the public’s awareness of and involvement in women’s issues around the globe. (New York Times)
- Thursday, April 25th will see Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s The Best of Both Worlds, originally aired as its season three finale and season four premiere, debut on the big screen as one big movie-type thing. Find out if it’s playing around you at the Fathom Events website.
- Congratulations to Melissa DeTora, the first woman in Magic: The Gathering history to Top 8 a Pro Tour. (Thanks, Anonymous tipster!, via GatheringMagic)
For $300 you can have a custom-made Harley Quinn corset of your very own. (By Etsy seller Castle Corsetry, via Fashionably Geek)
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In a perfect world, that would make those men MORE sympathetic to women when they talk about objectification of women in media.
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But really the take away from this is that two seconds of quickly covered up Chris Hemsworth stomach makes some men feel objectified.
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Good to know that a broad trend across much of visual media has effected one man, in one shot. We can all go home, sexism is over.
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