I think your caveat down there, about the messiness of identifying genres, might be why this trend seems so obvious.

Oh, thanks! Wow, that totally makes sense in this thread context, apparently I'm not really awake today. Haha my bad, thanks for clarifying :)

Ha sorry, I have to learn how to embed things. Here we go! Attempt #2...

Interesting!

I like that four of these are their own colour. Two have purple (ish) skin, one grey, and one green! Heh.

True!

Whoaaa sorry for the old notification you're going to get for this, article popped up on my Kotaku today, JUST realized how old it is - hooray, now I get to go look up how this finished up!

I think you have a point, if the alliances were organized differently, but the only purpose to the alliances is to have a measurable combined score at the end. There wasn't any mention of in-class activities between alliances, and it might put some peer pressure on kids within the same alliance to do school-related…

But she seems to be the shortest if them all, and have a wider face? Idk, confused!

Pretty big assumption there in the brackets, though! And if we're going by appearance based on prevalence in America, shouldn't 1/3 of these princesses be overweight?

I think the problem is that a lot of people (dare I say the majority?) don't have the time/energy/interest to think about the implications of their children's toys beyond safety and appropriateness. So, when the only available options reinforce issues that will affect girls throughout their lives, those who DO think…

WOW. This is way worse!! "Re-imagined"? When the onlt major difference is MAJOR weight loss? Yiiiikes. Good find.

This. Thank you.

I don't know, the teepee linked in the article looks pretty 'appropriation of what people think Native stuff is like' to me... and with all of the headdresses, 'red face' on models and tribal things that have been popular for the past year or two (or probably longer, I'm not super in-touch!) it being a 'teepee' is…

Okay, true!

That does sort of exist - Lost Girl is about a succubus that has killed a couple of people, but in a sexy way, and it's either justified (in combat, someone victimizing a woman, eetc.) or she feels real bad about it. So, not totally a Dexter, but maybe the closest television tries to get with a female lead.

Oh, and she…

Liked, yes. Beloved? I'm not so sure. I haven't checked out forums, but the reaction of my male friends to her death was kind of 'eh, she's gone now, hah stupid bitch, thinking she can turn', while my reaction was 'holy shit, this abused women was just executed out in the middle of nowhere because her boyfriend…

Why is it so hard to disengage from this? Sigh.

I'm not sure how this is relevant to this discussion thread? Sylphides and I are discussing sociology in a respectful manner, triggered from his 'sniveling sociology student' comment, which I know was for humour but couldn't avoid addressing. Neither you nor anyone else need lay out a theoretical argument, we were…

Oooh, colonialism! Yes, okay, yes. I had to TA Criminology students for the last two years... fourth year honours students, and sadly your comment was still relevant...

I have a list! Colonialism. Patriarchy. Misogynism. Feminism! A short list, yes, but powerful. Words frequently used COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTEXT AND…