These are my conversations with Pop Culture. An ongoing series of videoblog commentaries from a fangirl/feminist perspective. http://www.feministfre...
Full description and show credits
The Hunger Game Movie vs. the Book
S. 4 / Ep. 5
07:36
Apr 12, 2012
Warning: SPOILERS for the first Hunger Games novel and movie The Hunger Game is one of the most popular young adult novel series rivaling Harry Potter and Twilight. As the f...
The Hunger Games & Katniss Part 1: The Novel
S. 4 / Ep. 4
07:27
Apr 11, 2012
The Hunger Game is one of the most popular young adult novel series rivaling Harry Potter and Twilight. As the first of its film adaptations was just released in March 2012,...
The Oscars & the Bechdel Test
S. 4 / Ep. 1
10:30
Feb 15, 2012
Do this year’s Oscar nominees contain even one scene where two women speak to each other about something other than a man?
LEGO & Gender Part 2: The Boys Club
S. 4 / Ep. 2
13:43
Feb 6, 2012
In part 1 of my two part LEGO and Gender series, I explored how LEGO went terribly wrong with LEGO Friends and provided a brief history of LEGO’s ridiculous and slightly hil...
LEGO & Gender Part 1: Lego Friends
S. 4 / Ep. 3
10:31
Jan 30, 2012
LEGO announced that after 4 years of intensive research, they have finally come up with a LEGO product that fulfills the desires of “how girls naturally build and play.” Thi...
Top 5 Creepy and Sexist Christmas Songs
S. 3 / Ep. 1
08:04
Jan 13, 2012
You’ve heard them about a bagillion times before, and every December they are played over and over again, yup, it’s the same old Christmas and Holiday songs. But have you ev...
Top 10 Best Non-Violent iPhone Games
S. 3 / Ep. 2
05:50
Dec 17, 2011
Here is my Top 10 List of favourite non violent video games for the iPhone. I compiled this list because, while there is a huge variety of different types of video games, th...
Tropes vs. Women: #6 The Straw Feminist
S. 3 / Ep. 3
10:20
Sep 24, 2011
The Straw Feminist trope is a deliberately created, exaggerated caricature of a feminist that is used to undermine and ridicule feminist movements. More info and full transc...
Tropes vs. Women: #5 The Mystical Pregnancy
S. 3 / Ep. 4
07:04
Jul 28, 2011
The Mystical Pregnancy is a trope writers use to create drama and terror by invading, violating and exploiting women’s reproductive capabilities. Often these female characte...
Tropes vs. Women: #4 The Evil Demon Seductress
S. 3 / Ep. 5
06:45
May 23, 2011
The Evil Demon Seductress is a supernatural creature usually a demon, alien, robot, vampire etc. who is most often disguised as a sexy human female. ; She uses her sexuality...
Tropes vs. Women: #3 The Smurfette Principle
S. 3 / Ep. 6
07:10
May 23, 2011
The Smurfette Principle was named two decades ago by Katha Pollitt, when she noticed that there were a disproportionate amount of male characters in programming aimed at you...
Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch is a Steaming Pile of Sexist Crap
S. 3 / Ep. 7
02:20
May 23, 2011
As soon as I saw the trailer for Sucker Punch I correctly guessed that it would be another adolescent boy fantasy masquerading as a pseudo-female-empowerment film. What I wa...
These are my conversations with Pop Culture. An ongoing series of videoblog commentaries from a fangirl/feminist perspective. http://www.feministfrequency.com
