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- Liv Tyler Plays Weak Female Characters, Which Is Apparently What We Need Right Now
- Sex on the Wire: What to Wear on a Summer Date
- Space Relations: 9 Annoying Types of Craigslist Roommate Ads
- The Daily WTF: Conan, Is That You?
- Would You Ever Let Strangers Watch and Critique Your Date?
- Danielle Staub Analyzes ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ Season 3 Episode 8
- Followup: Mila Kunis Accepts Date Offer from Marine
- Video: Kitten Vs. Two Terrifying Apples
- I Wish We’d Had the ‘Firefly’ Anthem When I Was a Browncoat
- Snap This: The ‘Harry Potter’ Guys Backstage on Broadway
| Liv Tyler Plays Weak Female Characters, Which Is Apparently What We Need Right Now Posted: 11 Jul 2011 11:22 AM PDT
According to Carina Chocano, this is a good thing. She wrote a fascinating ediorial in last week’s New York Times about the “plague of strong female characters”: Hollywood’s attachment to the woman who can kick ass in her stilettos without ever letting on that she feels fear and grief like a normal person. These “role models” are horribly unrealistic, and actually alienate the female audiences they’re meant to inspire:
To be honest, I thought the same about Liv Tyler in The Ledge, especially since that came out after Super. In both movies, she’s used as an object in men’s competition, whether it’s self-made hero Rainn Wilson squaring off against drug lord Kevin Bacon or fundamentalist Patrick Wilson using her as a bargaining chip with atheist Charlie Hunnam. But therein lies the beauty: Her character was once a joyous woman filled with life, who’s been reduced to an object. We can see that she still has the spark left in her, though it’s faint. We’re witnessing a woman in flux, who was once great and could be again. Related posts: Post from: Crushable Liv Tyler Plays Weak Female Characters, Which Is Apparently What We Need Right Now  |
| Sex on the Wire: What to Wear on a Summer Date Posted: 11 Jul 2011 11:22 AM PDT |
| Space Relations: 9 Annoying Types of Craigslist Roommate Ads Posted: 11 Jul 2011 11:19 AM PDT A while back, I wrote a column about how to find a roommate on Craigslist who isn’t insane. And while the primary focus of this column is on roommate relationships, this week I wanted to take a moment to highlight something else about Craigslist – the incredibly frustrating “rooms/shared” and “sublets/temporary” sections. Living with strangers (or friends) can be hard enough, but actually finding a place to live via Craigslist can be downright infuriating. (If you’ve had to do this, you know what I mean.) Everyone from renters to brokers to building owners and landlords posts ads in these sections, and if you’re in a major city most of those ads sound completely crazy. Although that’s no big surprise to anyone who’s waded through the endless stream of posts on those pages, this week I wanted to showcase some examples of the many ways that Craigslisters are doing it wrong. Because the last thing that people want to see when they’re desperately trying to find a place to live is an ad written by a possible homicidal maniac, or even just an average jerk. So here they are – my picks for 9 Annoying Types of Craigslist Roommate Ads: Related posts: Post from: Crushable Space Relations: 9 Annoying Types of Craigslist Roommate Ads  |
| The Daily WTF: Conan, Is That You? Posted: 11 Jul 2011 10:52 AM PDT |
| Would You Ever Let Strangers Watch and Critique Your Date? Posted: 11 Jul 2011 10:45 AM PDT
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| Danielle Staub Analyzes ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ Season 3 Episode 8 Posted: 11 Jul 2011 10:50 AM PDT This is the first episode of this season’s Real Housewives of New Jersey where we saw more of the Manzo/Laurita clan than the Giudice/Gorga/(somewhat) Wakile side. We were reminded how much we love the Manzo boys, and that Lauren also exists (just kidding, we love her, too). We also remembered why we dislike Ashley. There was some other stuff about Melissa and Kathy’s careers, too. This was also the first time this season that the Giudice/Gorga familiies have gotten along at an event, with nary a table flip in sight. Check out the always impartial Danielle Staub‘s take on this week’s episode. (Photos via Bravo) Disclaimer: Okay, so Danielle didn't really write this post. But it doesn't it totally sound like she did? Related posts: Post from: Crushable Danielle Staub Analyzes ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ Season 3 Episode 8  |
| Followup: Mila Kunis Accepts Date Offer from Marine Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:36 AM PDT
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| Video: Kitten Vs. Two Terrifying Apples Posted: 11 Jul 2011 10:03 AM PDT |
| I Wish We’d Had the ‘Firefly’ Anthem When I Was a Browncoat Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:45 AM PDT I’ve resisted watching YouTuber Actor Pat‘s “The Browncoat Anthem,” because I thought it couldn’t possibly be an intelligent, witty, non-cringe-inducing rap. But it passes all those tests! This is a geek song that I’m proud to favorite on YouTube, that I’d happily tweet and pass along to friends. You can tell Pat’s a true fan from how he sets up the whole thing, starting with the aesthetic: He’s rocking Jayne’s very fine hat, and you might have spied Wash’s dinosaurs perched on his keyboard. Then there’s the wordplay — excellent rhymes, and he manages to cram in a couple dozen references without ever losing the beat. Of course, I still consider myself a Browncoat (that is, diehard Firefly fan), but I’ve had some distance between now and when I was 14 and head over heels for the show, still in its original run on Fox Friday nights. In the months and years after Firefly got cancelled, I was an active participant in the fan fiction challenge communities; I proofread others’ stories, shared theories about how the series could be resurrected, and cried with happiness when I saw Serenity in theaters. I really came into my own as a writer through this fandom, but I never imagined that I would meet other fans face-to-face. Coming to NYU, I was stunned that within the first few minutes of meeting other freshman, we found that we had Firefly in common. It’s how I met my former roommate — both of us lingering over a Serenity poster at the student center — and through him, my boyfriend. They were roommates, and had decided within the first week of school that they were going to start “Firefly at 9,” nightly screenings of the 14 episodes in their room. It was incredible. Even though I’ll likely never meet Pat in-person, I can now put a face to a fellow Browncoat — someone else who’s proud to say that they love Joss Whedon‘s space western. That’s a lot more than I could say for 2002. Related posts: Post from: Crushable I Wish We’d Had the ‘Firefly’ Anthem When I Was a Browncoat  |
| Snap This: The ‘Harry Potter’ Guys Backstage on Broadway Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:43 AM PDT
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The last two movies I’ve seen Liv Tyler in, she’s been the central female character, and a weak one at that: A former drug addict who’s been rescued by a sweet man but finds herself easily falling under the control of a controlling yet seductive jerk thanks to her docile personality. That counts for both Super and The Ledge. (And That Thing You Do! and Armageddon, now that we think about it.) Obviously there’s a formula Tyler’s got in her head. But why would she want to follow it — in both films, her character is meek and lost, hardly speaking above a murmur and terrified of the man who holds her in check.
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