At What Point Does Feminism Just Provide Cover for Androphobia?

Oh, right around here (h/t: Protein Wisdom): Sasha dresses in clothes he likes — be it a hand-me-downs from his sister or his brother. The big no-no’s are hyper-masculine outfits like skull-print shirts and cargo pants. In one photo, sent to friends and family, Sasha’s dressed in a shiny pink girl’s swimsuit. “Children like sparkly… Read More At What Point Does Feminism Just Provide Cover for Androphobia?

George Lucas is Done

If Red Tails doesn’t take off, that’ll be it for him. Here’s why: What the blistering fan reaction illustrates is one downside of Lucas’s naïve style. By persuading us to drop our snarky defenses and embrace his fables, Lucas had forged a bond with fanboys like no filmmaker, outside of Spielberg, before or since. (Adjusted… Read More George Lucas is Done

Oxfordians: The Birthers of the Elizabethan Renaissance

I have long wearied of the tiresome assertion that Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare. This phillipic by Ron Rosenbaum against the cinematic albatross Anonymous is three months old, but punctures the key argument of the Oxford fantasy: In the opening, our fancy-pants British narrator (Derek Jacobi) tells us disdainfully that Shakespeare only had a “grammar school” education,… Read More Oxfordians: The Birthers of the Elizabethan Renaissance