Daily Archive: June 16, 2012

Jun 16 2012

From the mouths of babes: “He-Man has more power than Jesus!”

It must have been a bumper time to be an evangelical Christian in the 80s, what with all the occultic cartoons tearing young children violently from the Bible and corrupting their innocent brains. With things like He-Man. While I admit He-Man and She-Ra are horrid examples of reinforcing traditional gender roles in kids, and mediocre …

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Jun 16 2012

Obama Boy: I sense this is going to backfire.

Remember the “I’ve got a crush on Obama” meme that happened in 2008? The one that arguably helped win a bit of the youth vote? There’s evidently a new variation on that meme for the 2012 election cycle: a guy who has a similar “crush” on Obama. Considering the very legitimate grievances gays have with …

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Jun 16 2012

SSA Blogathon – Some video game nonsense to wrap up (9 of 9)

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Okay, so I’m basically out of real content at the moment, so have some ramblings for my last post of the night. I had originally scheduled a four hour shift because I wasn’t sure if I’d end up having to work tonight, but luckily, I don’t. I say luckily because I’m actually pretty close to …

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Jun 16 2012

SSA Blogathon – Holy equal pay, Batman! (8 of 9)

So this is slightly more off topic than the rest, but I’m running out of material already. I don’t envy those folks who went a full 24 hrs. They must have iron constitutions and a full tab bar. Or more minions than I do, to feed them stuff. Or they’re lousy dirty CHEATERS WHO BLOGGED …

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Jun 16 2012

SSA Blogathon – ‘The many kinds of girl’ (7 of 9)

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I’ve previously spoken about how media portrays women and how the general messaging leads women to believe they aren’t “pretty enough”. Comics are especially guilty of this, with women being generally identical only with anatomical impossibilities intended to facilitate the male gaze. Some folks are trying to counter that message, though. And thank goodness. DeviantArtiste …

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Jun 16 2012

SSA Blogathon – #misandryinvideogames: a response to misogynist trolls (6 of 9)

In the wake of the blatantly misogynistic attack Feminist Frequency has endured over the Tropes vs Women In Video Games video kickstarter, wherein trolls claimed that video games showed significant levels of misandry as well, Twitter launched a counter-offensive. The #misandryinvideogames hashtag has Twitter users describing all the instances of misandry they could find in …

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Jun 16 2012

SSA Blogathon – Glenn Beck opens fire at a new target in his war on sanity (5 of 9)

Glenn Beck launches his newest front on the war on sanity: a war against Glee. Seriously, what gets this guy so hot under the collar about this show? I’m going out on a limb and saying all of the content where homosexuality is treated maturely and with respect. Or where atheism is mentioned without the …

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