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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: A Hero’s Daughter

by Jamie Frevele | 4:59 pm, April 16th, 2012


Author Brad Meltzer wrote a book called Heroes For My Daughter, in which he wrote a series of essays about a variety of people including Lucille Ball, Marie Curie, and Christopher Reeve. Above is a picture of Reeve’s daughter, Alexandra, who showed up at a recent signing for the book and read the entry about her father. Are you crying yet? …How about now? (via Brad Meltzer on Facebook via email tipster Anna B.)

This MTV video contains two things that are of importance to Game of Thrones fans: spoilers from the second season’s third episode and our own Jill Pantozzi!

Take that, would-be Springfield residents! (via The Hollywood Reporter)

This is not your typical “Girl in the Fireplace” cosplay, which was found at PAX East. There’s a whole story behind it, which you can read at Penny Arcade. (via tipster Lexie)

Rachel Deering is currently funding the next five issues of her newest full-length comic, Anathema, with a Kickstarter campaign and has two weeks left to reach her $20,000 goal! Check out the Kickstarter page, where you can see more panels like this one:

Here’s a brief summary:

Anathema is a six issue limited series horror comic that tells the story of Mercy Barlowe, a tormented young woman with a dark side. She must fight through treacherous lands and unspeakable horrors to reclaim her lover’s soul, which has been stolen by members of a sinister cult, bent on resurrecting a terrible and ancient evil.

The campaign ends April 30!

  • Katie Roiphe over at The Daily Beast doesn’t really understand BDSM, but she wrote about it anyway. At length. (via The Frisky)

    • When Geeks Wed has a how-to on creating a Rorschach manicure:

  • We love that Nichelle Nichols is still so involved in not just science fiction, but science fact: Tonight she will be hosting NASA’s FameLab Astrbiology Finals in Atlanta, Georgia. (Subspace Communique via Nichelle Nichols on Twitter)
  • Brea Grant, actress, comic book writer, and now film director! The former Heroes star will be making her directorial debut with the post-apocalyptic Best Friends Forever, and Nerdist had a sit-down with her.

    • Bill Murray now says that his involvement in Ghostbusters 3 is still a “possibility.” Here’s what I have to say about that:

    Quit playing games with my heart, Bill Murray. I mean it. (via Blastr)

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    • http://profiles.google.com/gnomer.denois Jill Oliver

      I cannot even imagine that brain explosion that would occur if Katie Roiphe read the Kushiel series.
       

    • Frodo Baggins

      The first thing that occurred to me upon her juxtaposition of women’s increasing social power with the popularity of erotic fantasies of submission is that it demonstrates a growing comfort among women with submission as an optional fantasy, not a necessary reality. That one isn’t automatically oppressed all the time allows one to approach the idea as something playful and different. Hasn’t that been the running theory on why so many men are into the Sub side of BDSM?

    • amy thompson

      That one isn’t automatically oppressed all the time allows one to
      approach the idea as something playful and different. Hasn’t that been
      the running theory on why so many men are into the Sub side of BDSM?

      http://goo.gl/FKEx5

    • http://profiles.google.com/gnomer.denois Jill Oliver

       Yes. That is why I wasn’t too offended by her use of that argument, at least it is the same for either side. But I think arguing that for either gender is really over simplifying things to a horrible degree.

      There also seems to be an incorrect assumptions about Sadomasochism and Dominance. They do not have to coincide. If a person is a true sadist or masochist, they get pleasure from giving or receiving pain. If a person is a Dominant or a submissive, they get pleasure from controlling or being controlled. The two categories overlap in actual use, but they can exist separately. So if the person likes being spanked in bed, there is a difference if they just like to be spanked as a masochist and if they like it as a punishment. If the person likes it because they are a masochist you can argue until you are blue in the face about how it’s because they are tired of being in control all the time in other parts of their life and it won’t change the fact they just like the way it feels.

    • Frodo Baggins

      Good point, though my interpretation wasn’t so much that they’re tired of being in control as that the fact that they are in control means letting themselves be dominated in a limited capacity doesn’t threaten their sense of self, because it’s just playing.

    • Anonymous

      I wonder how people who are switches, masochostic tops, non-heteronormative couples, families with more than two adults, and all the other “odd” combinations that seem to make up my friends, fair in those arguments …

      (to be honest, I read a couple of screens and then blanked over a bit, though)

    • http://twitter.com/AlexisLassT Alexis Lass

       
       All these attacks on Katie are ad hominem. I’ve been a Pro Dominatrix
      in NYC for years and I’ll tell you that Katie Rophie is spot on in her
      article. Many of my Pro male Dom friends report that 90% of their
      clients are career women- late 20′s to 50′s. Hence, Katie’s Demo G. is
      correct. Most submissives are indeed upper middle class to upper class
      working men and women who want a break from being in control in the
      workplace and thus feel liberated when they hand the control over to
      someone else for awhile- get it?. It’s a Yin Yang. Believe me- I’m privy
      to the huge thriving underground S&M in NYC and globally – as
      everyone in “the scene” trades information. People outside the S&M
      scene have NO idea how many husbands, bosses, high power career women
      secretly see Doms and or attend S&M play parties. Again, Katie is
      spot on in her analysis. I think people would rather attack Katie than
      admit they are part of something new happening in our current cultural
      climate. S&M hitting the mainstream. S&M is a huge umbrella that
      covers someone’s BF slapping them on their arse during sex to calling
      them a “bad girl”. Everyone does it in various form from light to heavy
      play. Thus, I do think it makes people uncomfortable because it is close
      to their lives, not remote from them…it makes people think about
      their own relationships, their own boredoms, their own desires, etc., in
      a way they would prefer not to.

      If people are so offended by the growing trend of so many
      women(mostly career women) wanting male dominance, BDSM role
      play..that’s their problem. Katie obviously did her underground research and trust me as a
      expect on the demo g. for S&M with years of experience in the
      global S&M scene – Katie is right whether people “like it” or not. Just
      don’t shoot the messenger.

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