PSA: There is no such thing as “overthinking” or “over-analyzing” arts, media, and entertainment. If you don’t want to talk about things like race, gender, sexuality, class, and disability in arts and entertainment, you are free to exercise your right to stay the fuck out of the discussion.

stfu-moffat:

eshusplayground:

This Public Service Announcement is brought to you by Moff’s Law.

Too bad the Moff in question isn’t Steven Moffat, or we’d have a vastly more receptive showrunner. 

- R

villiljos:

My new favourite meme.

In media reports on women’s issues—abortion, birth control, Planned Parenthood—men are quoted around five times more than women, a new study shows →

stfusexists:

Shocker. 

Lipstick Feminists: missveryvery: zumie-monster: There’s something really screwed up about... →

missveryvery:

zumie-monster:

There’s something really screwed up about the way we talk about queer representation in children’s media.

In the U.S. culture at least, there’s this instantaneous association of queer people with sex. Queer people are automatically highly sexual…

thelifetimenetwork:

Mainstream US media outlets are ignoring the Occupy Wall Street protest today.

Al Jazeera isn’t. Keep up to date here.

"This research shows that female characters in movies or music videos are not as important as male characters, and are often overly sexualized. For example, in G-rated films, 75% of all of the characters are male. In music videos on BET, 84% of the videos include sexual imagery, and 71% of women in these videos wear provocative clothing or nothing at all, compared with only 35% of men. This kind of sexual objectification, which conceals how complex and intelligent real women and girls are, shows how undervalued women are in our society – apparently, we’re only good for looking at. Why can’t women be presented as thinking, feeling human beings instead of just decorations for car or perfume advertisements?"