Empowerment « The Hooded Utilitarian

Dick, Empowered

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! Power to the Penis!

The Flaw in Watchmen

Rape, love, imperfection and Sally Jupiter.

December 22, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog, Empowerment
3 comments

Alien Submission

In Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis, humans tried empowerment. They built powerful bombs and more powerful bombs, and finally they all killed each other. Clearly, it’s time to try something else.

December 9, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog, Empowerment
4 comments

Cinderella, Feminist, Part 2

Ella, Enchanted, the book, vs. Ella, Enchanted the movie.

December 1, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog, Empowerment
8 comments

Cinderella, Feminist

Ella, Enchanted and what feminism can take from love and obedience.

November 30, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog, Empowerment
3 comments

Monika Bartyzel on Bella, Buffy, Katniss, and Femininity

I’m sick of the arguments against Bella because I’ve yet to see one that doesn’t try to morph the facts to fit the argument.

November 18, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog, Empowerment
179 comments

“The widespread and almost-always knee-jerk “feminist” contempt for Bella, both in itself and in comparison with “tough” female characters like Katniss and Buffy, is a tremendous intellectual and social failure.”