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Welcome to episode 25, in which we kick off our third year with a special guest. Maya joins us to talk about all the things that books, TV, and film get wrong. She brings with her some scientific perspective, to round out our already fairly comprehensive litany of legal and cultural complaints.
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Reign. Good god why?!
A glossary of terms:
The books of Grace Burrowes
Heathcliffing on the moor
Spooks
How To Get Away With Murder
Rome and The Tudors (look at Anne Boleyn’s loose, flowing locks)
Pregnesia (there’s never a reason not to talk about Pregnesia)
Han Solo’s Kessel Run
Reidan’s review of Into the Storm.
K-19: The Widowmaker aka the movie that broke Alina with crackers.
Fargo (because we didn’t want Minnesota to feel left out)
Welcome to episode 24, which brings us to two years worth of content! This month, Les Filles discuss video games, video gamers, and the terrible things that have been happening the past month (months, years) to women in video games.
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After an ex-boyfriend launched an angry tirade against her online, supposedly exposing a potentially conflicting relationship between herself and a games journalist, Depression Quest developer Zoe Quinn found herself on the receiving end of doxxing, harassment, threats and accusations that she was public enemy number one in the battle to expose corruption in games journalism.
A debate on the subject soon followed, using the Twitter hashtag #GamerGate, although Quinn later exposed that as a 4Chan cover to harass her and like-minded women who dare to call out sexism in gaming (Anita Sarkeesian also found herself unable to return to her own home due to threats).
Feminist Frequency: Tropes vs. Women in Video Games- Women as Background Decoration 2
Trigger warning on these threats that drove Anita Sarkeesian from her home.
The Extinction Burst theory.
Games.on.net says people threatened by equality are not welcome.
Comics Alliance responds to GamerGate.
Magic: The Gathering and women WaPo article.
Music is food for the ears and the soul. We feed your soul (….that sounds appropriately creepy) with our Senior Music Correspondent (Or just Music Correspondent, depending on the timestamp) Ian, from A Matter of Taste!
Ian also composed and recorded our awesome new theme music! You can find him personally on Tumblr at Making New Mistakes. You can follow A Matter of Taste on Blogspot, Tumblr, and Twitter.
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Composers we talked about:
Hans Zimmer Gladiator, Inception, The Lion King
Indiana Jones Theme:
Watchmen Opening Credits
Enjoy! We’ll be back at you next month!
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