Feminist Pub 16: where the Bluestockings develop armoured stockings to deal with the thousand paper cuts

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Carry on.

Artifex - it's because Brave could be dismissed as "she's just a tomboy." Frozen explicitly contrasts bad and good male behaviour, so it's much more threatening to a certain type of man - it's saying "Look, even Disney's telling you you shouldn't draw women in by being all over them in a display of false emotion, then turning out to be an abusive arsehole once you think you've got 'em trapped."

Maybe because Frozen is like toddler crack? DS adores it, knows it word for word and sleeps with a toy Olaf every night.

Hi enormouse. That thread is horrible.

Oh my word kickass that's brilliant, and also A LOT of stairs.

After all the talk of treadmills I managed to fall over while out running. Damage seems to be limited to my pride.

Ah, the snow golem thing is too scary for my littlies so our current crack is Team Umizoomi.

See what you mean about Brave though.

You've just talked me into getting frozen. I was avoiding it: I avoid any modern disney thing until its proven. Yay consumerism (my poor deprived dd). I loved that fox news link, brilliantly written.

i don't by any means think that frozen is perfect or that it doesn't perpetuate some dodgy stuff, but if it's upsetting sexist fold then that's fine by me

I haven't seen Frozen, but yeah, if it's got Concerned Women for America pissed off, then I will appreciate it on principle. They are an avowed anti-feminist organization that was established specifically as a counterpoint to the National Organization for Women. One of their latest forays is to try to stop a proposed National Women's History Museum in Washington.

i probably shouldn't, but i have to laugh at the name. they can't even admit that they might express an emotion beyond anything other than the stereotypically ladylike "concerned"

LOL. Whereas feminists are not concerned about anything at all. Oh no.

That video brings a new dimension to the notion of "pearl clutching."

I'm a spittle-flecked furious feminist most of the time

me, I spend so long looking for things to be offended by that I exhaust myself.

I have just learned that brontosaraus never existed

I have just learned that brontosaraus never existed

I have just learned that brontosaraus never existed

Three times.

what
What
WHAT??!!?

It NEVER existed

It was an apatasaurs all the time

It's the fault of all these bloody scientists, going round changing names. Umbelliferae is a way better name than apiaceae. I might campaign for everyone to stop becoming scientists, so they stop this sort of nomenclature changing nonsense.

I don't feel quite so annoyed about apatosaurus, though. It might possibly be a better name than brontosaurus, at least sound-wise. It's still confusing.