Things We Saw Today: Mal Little Reynolds Pony

He MANES to misbehave. Eh? Eh? (Nerd Approved.)

Honey, the babysitter’s here! (Fashionably Geek.)

Where the going gets fuzzy is when these titles are offered up as de facto examples of films featuring strong female characters, as if the “strong” in that term referred to the ability to deadlift a certain weight and not possession of a personality. It isn’t a given that just because a film features a woman with a weapon, it’s empowering, and having a female lead doesn’t necessarily mean a film is for or about actual females. Take Sucker Punch—please. As Dargis points out, save for the designated chick flicks, “the American big screen hasn’t been very interested in women’s stories, violent or not, in recent decades.” When a lady-centric movie makes it out of the chick-flick ghetto, whether it’s the latest action installment or Bridesmaids, it’s still rare enough to provoke discussion and closer examination, whether the films can bear up under the weight of it all or not.

Alison Willmore in her article The Last Action Heroine: Why Tough Actions Don’t Always Equal Strong Women on The A.V. Club.

Lesson 1 of how to learn Klingon. Useful stuff! (io9.)

Did we post this because we’re in love with Converses? WHY DO YOU ASK? (Got Quite A Mouth, This One.)

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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