GLAAD Finds LGBTQ Representation on Television Is Increasing, But Is Still Pushing Old, Damaging Stereotypes
GLAAD hosted a TCA panel to discuss the state of LGBTQ+ representation in television today. And I don't think you'll be surprised to hear that there's still a lot of work to be done.
Read MoreMindy Kaling Accurately Predicted (and Burned) Master of None In Her Book, Why Not Me?
Did you read Mindy Kaling's book, Why Not Me? If you did, why didn't you tell us that she totally predicted the plot of Aziz Ansari's (heartbreakingly) hilarious hit show, Master of None?
Read MoreTV Tropes Deletes Every Rape Trope; Geek Feminism Wiki steps in
BAD IDEAS FROM SMART PEOPLE
Up until a week ago, TV Tropes had a very handy trope index called Rape Tropes. (Note: all TVT rape trope pages in this article link, ironically, to Google caches.) This page also linked to other iterations of rape tropes in popular culture such as Rape as Backstory, Rape and Switch, Rape as Drama, Rape as Redemption, and other rape tropes common in the pop culture idiom.
Today when you access any of these pages, you're informed, "We do not want a page on this topic. It does not meet our content policy."
Recently on the discussion thread for combining the "Victim falls for Rapist" trope with the "Rape as Stockholm Syndrome" trope under the standard Rape Is Love cliche, Wiki owner and admin Fast Eddie explained that all tropes related to rape had been wiped off the site because it was getting the site "in trouble with Google."
Apparently that meant any trope containing the word "rape" had to go.
Turns Out Kids Aren’t Actually Fans of Violence in Television
Educated Guess
Things We Saw Today: An Explanation of the Trend of Crossplay
Things We Saw Today
How BioShock’s Plot Was Predicted by Batman: The Animated Series in 1994
BioShock is set during 1960, in Rapture, a fictional underwater dystopian city. The history of Rapture is learned by the player through audio recordings as he explores the city. Rapture was envisioned by the Randian business magnate Andrew Ryan, who wanted to create a laissez-faire state to escape increasingly oppressive political, economic, and religious authority on land. ... By New Year's Eve of 1959, "[Ryan's] paranoia had reached such a level he was hanging dozens of people, mostly innocent, in Rapture's main square."Read More
Let’s Get Dangerous: Darkwing Duck is Back
Nostalgia warning: Darkwing Duck is back this June. BOOM! Studios, who already publish numerous Disney character comics through their BOOM Kids! imprint, are bringing the terror that flaps in the night back in a four-issue miniseries beginning in June. The announcement was made yesterday at the Emerald City Comic Con.
Ian Brill, writer on the miniseries, promises lots of villains:
Read More"Darkwing has such a great rogue's gallery, I couldn’t pick just one. By the time you get to the end of the first issue you'll see four, and then there are only going to be more as the series progresses. All the villains’ lives have been changed, too. There have been big changes in St. Canard and everyone’s dealing with them in their own way. This series has the familiar characters you want but given new situations that we hope gives a sense of vitality to the stories.”
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