Santa Baby - Spoofed!

And to SHEER PERFECTION! The last time "sexy" patronizing Christmas was spoofed this well was way back in "Mean Girls". But they got it so, so, so note-perfect on "Community". Sexy is never annoying in and of itself. But it super icks me out when sexy = dumb girl needs help of big strong man. That's why this is so funny. I can't believe they're taking this show off the air...it's one of the few shows on TV that passes the Bechdel. Plus, you know...there's that whole "just plain hilarious" thing.

Click below to see the song...

"Oh Sure...NOW It's Cool." or How a Once Unpopular Slave Leia Sentiment is Now Cool...Thank the Maker!

Complaining about stuff. Will it make you popular? No. But will it maybe help to change things? You bet. When I saw the following video (below the jump) I felt vindicated.

(Then...selfishly and unrealistically, a little bit ripped off. It's more likely that there were a lot of us feeling the same way, slave leia fatigue was in the zeitgeist I think. But I think I'm the only nerd who really raged about it at the blog level way back when it got picked up by the Huffington Post over a year ago. I'm so embarrassed to even be trying to take credit, what a "misplaced geek rage" thing of me to do, but there it is. I said it. I feel a little bit better, if not like 10% more comic book guy-ish.)

Ashley Eckstein Saves the Fangirls

To read Audrey's full interview with Ashley Eckstein, click here.

Breaking out of Hiatus For Just a Moment

*pretends to be Dwight from The Office* "Unshun"

I swore I wouldn't break my hiatus for anything, not even when this massive slew of female-lead action movies was released this spring...RIGHT after I went on hiatus. But this is too good not to share.

All I'm saying is, if Geena Davis says it's true and brings it to your attention, can all my fellow fangirls out there PLEASE stop giving me the business for pointing out gender inequalities in film? I mean come on...it's GEENA DAVIS! Can we stop yelling at each other and just acknowledge this? I've tried to explain it a trillion times. I'm not anti-sexy, I'm just tired or "sexy" being the only option. That played a huge part in what I like to call "SlaveLeiaGate 2010". All the Slave Leias came after me saying I was a woman-hater. I was just pointing out the disproportionate amount of Slave Leias at conventions, and how almost all the costumes are designed to appeal to the male eye. As a lady geek, I just get tired of it...why do all the men get to be badass in a very practical way while the women have to look like hookers? Now Geena Davis is hunting down the facts and statistics to prove some of what I've been saying for a long time. And well, it just makes me feel like saying, "Told you so!" I'm such a good sport, right?  

READ MORE ON "WOMEN IN FILM" HERE

READ MY PRE_RELEASE THOUGHTS ON "SUCKER PUNCH" HERE
(That one also kind of makes me want to say "Told you so!")

I'll be back when I finish my Master's Degree in a month...

"Re-shun"