sexism

sexual politics in Chalker’s Soul Rider series

February 25, 2010

I’ve finished Jack Chalker’s five volume “Soul Rider” series and since, I’ve been obsessing more and more about issues of sex, gender and sexuality raised by the work. So here we are on this amazing place called World. There are areas that are more or less like our planet where the “conventional” physical laws work: [...]

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Percy Jackson rant: sex in Greek means f***ing around

September 5, 2009

What’s up with the sex lives of these Greek gods?!? Hera, the goddess of marriage, is totally pissed off about Zeus’ fooling around. Yet she sticks it out with him for thousands of years. There’s some little quip that they went for couples counseling but I’m not that sure it really helped the divine king [...]

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“Twilight” rant 14: doesn’t Bella mean beautiful?

July 20, 2009

A friend recently sent me this funny U-tube video of Edward Cullen trying to court Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Naturally she’s completely turned off and ends up “slaying” him by the end. Apparently she didn’t like his stalker tendencies. I agree with the Multiply writers about that: Edward’s whole stalker business is pretty creepy. Bella [...]

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“Twilight” rant 10: Bella’s blond ambition

June 22, 2009

I’ve been thinking about the back-and-forth comments between Rita and Deby at the end of Bella versus Rosalie. For one, who would have guessed that Madonna, who I believe is an amazing performer and is undoubtedly an incredible success in all ways measurable, could be such a lightening-rod for woman on woman strife? What is [...]

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“Twilight” rant 5: Bella versus Rosalie

May 18, 2009

What’s up with Bella and Rosalie? They are less than friendly in the first novel, “Twilight.” Yet by the close of “Breaking Dawn,” they’ve become the best of buds. For much of the series Bella is preoccupied with Rosalie’s beauty and seems very self-critical in comparison. We finally learn in “Eclipse” that Rosalie is completely [...]

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