The New Yorker: White Until Proven Black
Anna Holmes offers an insightful review of the racial controversy surrounding The Hunger Games and it’s parallels with what we see happening in our society.
(P.S. Unlike the other reviews/articles you’ve read, I was actually interviewed for this one. )
How anyone can read and love The Hunger Games, a story about oppression, social marginalization, and about the horrors that a lack of empathy can evoke, and still be a racist a**hole is beyond me.
Great article on the New Yorker and great job on hungergamestweets, for calling out the racists!
via Molly Infante
Take note. This is how you avoid slut shaming a character. Learn from Community and it's writers.
- Gillian Jacobs: A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, “Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.” She goes, “Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?” That gives me a lot of pride that women really identify with Britta. The thing that is unique about her is that she is never the subject of slut shaming. Like, she’s one of the only female characters that doesn’t ever get punished for having an active sex life.
- Megan Ganz: She is also proud of it and doesn’t ever use it to her advantage. I mean, in some ways: a gym bag full of nickels. But you can tell she’s just having experiences.
- Gillian Jacobs: She’s a flawed, well-rounded, principled person who makes mistakes but is not pigeonholed as the slut, even though she and Jeff are the most sexually active people in the group. Because if implied inferences in the script are correct, I’ve slept with most of the men at Greendale.
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Ancient writing and today’s media shows that in Greco-Roman time and today’s time, everyone engages in the act of intercourse.
first sentence of student paper
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Can’t really argue with this thesis statement. I am glad we have ancient writing and today’s media to remind us of this!
lovely nerdy flirting
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Slat By Slat: Roaring Tehran
As reports on Iran’s nuclear program continue to trickle in — and an exasperated IAEA delegation returns from Tehran empty handed once again — another type of coverage from Iran appears to be on the rise, and it has nothing to do with armament.
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