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mary commented on the blog post Law and Order SVU brings attention to rape kit backlog 2 years, 7 months ago · View
These shows consistently glamorize and sensationalize rape and violence against women. It seems like most episodes have the investigators looking over some bloody scene with a dead woman in a sexually compromising position, and most episodes start with a woman-as-sexual-victim scenario. And the scenarios dreamed up are always the most lurid ones imaginable, with a [...]
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mary wrote a new blog post: YA Books to Movies: A Lifetime of Disappointment! 2 years, 11 months ago · View
Seeing the glossy promotional posters for the new Ramona and Beezus movie starring Selena Gomez as Beezus has renewed the anger I felt as a tween when my beloved young adult books were turned into shiny, boppy movies that totally ruined everything about the books themselves. Now when I re-read YA books, particularly those from the 70′s and early 80′s, I’m truly surprised [...]
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