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  • The Supremes Edition of the XX Gabfest

    Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 8:57 PM | By Emily Bazelon

    In The Supremes Edition of our XX Gabfest this week, Hanna and Meghan and I talk about (of course) Obama's pick for the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Also a new study showing that women are more unhappy, not less, 30 years after the sexual revolution, and why Terminator Salvation has such lame female action stars... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)

  • Apocalypse Now or Later?

    Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:11 PM | By Willa Paskin

    Meghan wasn't the only person who missed Sarah Connor. Terminator Salvation lost the weekend's box office war to another sequel, Night at The Museum. There's surely some "in this economy" fauxrgument to be made explaining this outcome (ITE people want family friendly fare, not dark tales about the world's end), but I think Terminator's problem is more basic, a structural flaw, a storytelling 101 screw-up.

    Apocalypse narratives—movies, books, TV about the end of the world—can be divided into two groups: stopping the apocalypse narratives and surviving the apocalypse narratives... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)

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