18 April 08 | tags: weekly |
The Weekly for 18 April
- The Feminist SF - The Blog talks about gender and science fiction publications.
- One of the last original Walt Disney animators, Ollie Johnston, passed away at age 93
- Shock jocks suspended over slur against Alaska Native women. Making sexually inappropriate jokes is always especially funny when the ethnic group of women targeted in the joke has the highest instances of rape and sexual assault in the entire US.
- Can the French really ban pro-thin websites? A look at the politics and ideas behind squashing pro-anorexia websites.
- Why Superman will always suck. I'm so geared up for all the Batman happenings this summer. Seen the Gotham Knight trailer yet? Awesome.
- Evidently, Spielberg thinks Cate Blanchett made her character the best Indiana Jones villian ever. My geek is showing when it comes to this summer's movies, isn't it.