Random thought: are any of you covering The Last Airbender movie? I still haven't found enough spoons to read GC so I wasn't sure. I think it'd be a great thing for the chicas to cover because:
I don't think I'm up for writing an article myself (see my recent posts in my journal for the reason) but I think this would fit right in at GC.
Re: the topic of this post: (1) I am squeeing because dude, you're familiar with the term "mansplaining". I wasn't sure if that term had leaked out of the online feminist blogs and into the general population; (2) I seem to recall some dude making a post on girl_gamers asking for contributors to a new magazine he was launching, and getting considerable backlash for how he worded his post. I am uncertain whether that was a digital/print/video magazine, but his comment and your response pinged me. If I feel up to it later I might go digging through the girl_gamers archive to find it, because it was a thing of beauty.
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(a) it has a HUGE fanbase
(b) being that it is based on a cartoon, it falls in the realm of Geeky
(c) it's getting a lot of attention in the news because they cast white actors in roles that were portrayed as people of color in the cartoon (specifically, Asian and Intuit cultures)
(d) it's getting really bad reviews
(e) the original cartoon was fully of strong, amazing women. The movie? Not so much.
I don't think I'm up for writing an article myself (see my recent posts in my journal for the reason) but I think this would fit right in at GC.
Re: the topic of this post: (1) I am squeeing because dude, you're familiar with the term "mansplaining". I wasn't sure if that term had leaked out of the online feminist blogs and into the general population; (2) I seem to recall some dude making a post on