The Tuesday Edition - Sep 11, 2018
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Big on the Internet, Chris Pine, Star Trek 4 (Kelvin), William Shatner

I Hate to Agree With William Shatner, but Paramount Needs to Pay Chris Pine

William Shatner as Jim Kirk in Star Trek
Happy Star Trek week, folks; the series first premiered 52 years ago this past Saturday. To celebrate, we're going to continue to cover the current struggles between Paramount and Chris Pine.
Science & Tech, misogyny, women in STEM

Why Is It So Hard for So Many Men to Believe This Former Victoria’s Secret Model Is Also a Professional Coder?

Lyndsey Scott, model, coder, programmer, misogyny, stem
Lyndsey Scott is an actress and a former Victoria's Secret and Calvin Klein model, as well as a successful programmer. Over the weekend, the Instagram account Coding Engineer gave Scott a shoutout with the caption "Coding is for anyone!" The responses were the perfect example of why that declaration still needs to be made in the first place.
TV, dana scully, fandom, fox mulder, The X-Files

Happy 25th Anniversary to The X-Files, My First Fandom

Mulder and Scully the X-Files
All I knew was that the truth was out there somewhere and that Fox Mulder and Dana Scully were in love.
Big on the Internet, #Tiff2018, puppies, TIFF

Things We Saw Today: All These Beautiful Actors With Puppies at #TIFF2018

Chris Pine in Patty Jenkins' I am the Night
All these actors with all these puppies have got to stop, we only have so many lives to live. In a new #TIFF2018 bid, many outlets are handing some of our favorite actors puppies and having them just take pictures and get interviewed. It is a lot.
Big on the Internet, #MeToo Movement, Olivia Munn, Shane Black, The Predator

Most of Olivia Munn’s Castmates Are Shunning Her for Speaking out About Predator Casting Controversy

In the wake of Shane Black casting a sexual offender in The Predator, and Olivia Munn speaking out about the issue, the majority of The Predator's male cast has been avoiding interacting and doing interviews with Munn.
AMP Featured, Movies, representation, Star Wars (franchise), Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Why Is Star Wars’ Inclusiveness Getting So Much Hate Now, When It Was Celebrated in the Past?

Rose and Finn on Canto Bight in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
It’s tempting to paint a picture of online Star Wars trolls as middle-aged men fighting against the unfamiliar change that is the franchise’s necessary, if slow, realization that heroes aren’t all white men with floppy hair. However, the fandom's past makes the explanation a lot less simple.
Movies, Chris Pine, media violence, sexuality

Chris Pine Is Right About Our Distorted Views of Violence and Nudity in Film

Chris Pine in Outlaw King
There is something wrong with Western film society when nudity is considered more shocking than violence. We've accepted brutality as a part of film culture, but nudity and sex is considered taboo; that is something that needs to change.
Books, The Mary Sue Book Club

The Mary Sue Book Club: September Edition

The Mary Sue Book Club
The Mary Sue reveals their book club picks for September 2018.
Movies, Harry Potter

Say What You Want, but Harry Potter Is a Great Character

Harry Potter main characters as adults at the end
When we meet Harry, he's not even eleven years old. His entire life, all he's known is his aunt and uncle telling him that his parents were nothing, and that he's nothing. He cooked for them, cleaned for them, and never had the childhood he would have had with James and Lily Potter, but part of the problem with how we see Harry is that many of us were the same age he was. Growing up, we'd read these books and think about how we'd react if our friend were lashing out as Harry does.
AMP Featured, Gaming, Gamergate, video games

Spider-Man Game’s “World’s Saddest Easter Egg” Is a Cautionary Tale of Post-Gamergate

Spider-Man Easter egg proposal
Insomniac Games' new Spider-Man game included an Easter egg featuring one fan's marriage proposal to his girlfriend. What might have been a romantic tale to tell didn't go as planned, and serves as proof positive that we shouldn't rush to report one side of a story.
TV, Netflix, Noelle Stevenson, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

First Teaser Trailer for She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Is Here!

She-Ra
Today Teen Vogue released the teaser trailer for the upcoming She-Ra and the Princesses of Power series, which will premier on Netflix November 16th.
News, Flint, Miss America, politics

Miss America Contestants Had Better Takes on Politics Than Our Elected Officials

miss america, miss michigan, emily sioma, nfl, kaepernick, kneeling
This weekend was the 2019 Miss America competition, and while the winner was Nia Franklin, Miss New York, she's not the only contestant that's been making headlines.
News, Carlos Ramos, Naomi Osaka, Serena Williams

Racist and Sexist Serena Williams Cartoon Reinforces Double Standards

on Day Thirteen of the 2018 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 8, 2018 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Chris Trotman/Getty Images for USTA)
Since the controversial U.S. Open and chair umpire Carlos Ramos's calls against Serena Williams, there has been back and forth discourse around sexism, racism, sportsmanship, ego, and what exactly we should call it when rules are not unilaterally enforced.
Movies, Olivia Munn, Predator, Shane Black

The Predator Sex Offender Reaction Exposes Lack of Care for Victims

Steven Wilder Striegel attends "The Nice Guys" press conference during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 15, 2016 in Cannes, France.
There are those coming to the defense of Steven Wilder Striegel, saying he served his time and asking "how long" must men suffer for their past crimes?
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