FIGTH LIKE A GIRL
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Mad Max: Females Are Strong As Hell
I laughed for a full minute at this.
So our next film is “Kubo and the Two Strings” and I love it. And the other day I had the thought that I totally want to write fanfiction about it.
And I generally don’t write fanfiction, so this is completely out of character for me.
But while it would make me the first fanfiction writer for this story, I couldn’t write it because I can’t talk about the film yet and it would give too much away.
Nerd girl problems.
nightxade
- The Keepers have always been here. They will always be here. Please do not disturb the Keepers.
- Your gun keeps changing. You aren’t trained in assault rifles, but you’re carrying one anyway. You didn’t bring a Predator, but it’s suddenly in your hands, aimed at someone’s head. Blink. You’re carrying your own weapons again.
- You stand outside on the moon, victorious in killing an AI trying for its freedom. Listen closely in the silence of space, you hear the rachni song. You’ve read the reports: the rachni have never been to the Sol system.
- Conrad Verner accuses you of waving a gun in his face. You remember giving him an autograph. But you died, somewhere between the autograph and the accusation.
- You were told there were only two Ardat-Yakshi. You kill four banshees before you leave the monastery.
- You’ve been in this building before, on a different colony, a different planet, a different system. But you still cannot find the door to return outside.
- There is a man in the markets. He has been trying for three years to return a toaster oven. He has tried every store on the Citadel. He has no memory of buying the toaster oven. He doesn’t even have a receipt.
- Have you always been waiting for this elevator?
Here’s an example of sexism in the media. It’s very subtle, but it’s insidious, and it’s everywhere.
Men’s washroom and women’s washroom, each with an ad in the mirror. Both ads are for the same car. However, the text is slightly changed - in the men’s, it tells you that you look a million bucks but would look even better in that car. In the women’s, it gives you concern that you’re having a bad hair day but that’d be okay if you had that car.
The men’s ad assumes you’re confident and powerful and tries to optimize that image. The women’s ad undermines your opinion of yourself and tells you how to fix it.
Seriously. That shit is fucked.
REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S FIRST FILM SOLELY PRODUCED BY THEIR STUDIO HAD TWO FEMALE CHARACTERS AS THEIR ANTAGONIST AND PROTAGONIST WHO, BY SOME FORM OF DEVIL MAGIC, HAVE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FACES
REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S SECOND FILM NOT ONLY CONSISTED OF A CAST WITH FOUR CENTRAL FEMALE CHARACTERS BUT INCLUDED AN ENTIRE TOWN OF DIVERSE CITIZENS OF VARYING RACE, GENDER, AND AGE. LIKE A NORMAL TOWN HAS.
REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S THIRD FILM FEATURED SAME SEX COUPLES IN THEIR TEASER TRAILER
REMINDER THAT THIS IS ALL STOP-MOTION SO EVERY CHARACTER WAS DESIGNED, MODELED, SCULPTED, RIGGED, AND EVEN HAD TINY CLOTHES SEWED FOR THEM.
also reminder that they make chump change compared to disney who whines and cries that in all their years of experience they can’t handle the prospect of animating a girl with a face different than the rest and that it’s “too hard” because only females can express such a wide range of emotions that it makes them difficult to animate
if a studio with 20-30 years of experience can manage this then SURELY an established studio with NEAR 100 YEARS of experience can maybe, just maybe, include a female that ISN’T a part of their formula
OHHHHH EAT THAT
So yeah there’s that.