Okay, Getting This Down Before I Forget: If Youre Sensitive To Strobe Lights And Want To See The Hunger

Okay, getting this down before I forget: if you’re sensitive to strobe lights and want to see The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, look away when they start going down a very long, triangle staircase. You’ve got a couple minutes to prepare. When the blast doors close, you’re safe and can look back.

Why, WHY did someone see fit to do a manip of the Mockingjay poster with Katniss’ uniform unzipped to mid-chest?

Did they feel that the seventeen-year-old revolutionary trying to save the world while dealing with her own trauma wasn’t sexed-up enough? :-\

Fuck’s sake.

Do you ever get rly pissed because the hunger games films could’ve told such a deep story with themes that reflect our own society’s oppressive systems

but instead they whitewashed the main leads, erased their disabilities, and pretty much romanticized the violence

FF.N link

The propos were actually something I found really interesting about Mockingjay, since it was basically showing that the rebellion was pretty much using the same techniques as the Capitol. Katniss as the Mockingjay is just as contrived an image as Katniss as the girl in love, except the propos may have even been MORE manipulative, since they were using actual experiences. Like Finnick’s. Revealing that must have been goddamn hard.

one of my hunger games head canons is that after Johanna won her hunger games her capitol team insisted that her victor talent be furniture design since she’s from 7 and she just spent all of her time post-games coming up with increasingly uncomfortable chairs to see how long it would take for capitolites to stop buying them

Realism v. gender ideology: Women in apocalyptic fiction shaving their armpits.

By Lisa Wade, PhD

This is what gender ideology looks like. That’s The Walking Dead’s Rosita Espinosa and a total absence of armpit hair. 

This is also gender ideology at work: the privileging of an idea of gender over real life or, in this case, realism.

The Walking Dead’s producers go to great lengths to portray what a zombie apocalypse might be like. They are especially keen to show us the nasty bits: what it really looks like when dead people don’t die, what it looks like to kill the undead, and the evil it spawns in those left alive. It’s gruesome. The show is a gore orgy. But armpit hair on women? Apparently that’s just gross.

Gender ideology lost this battle with realism, we’d see armpit hair on the women in Gilligan’s Island, Planet of the Apes,The Blue Lagoon, Beauty and the Beast, Waterworld,  Lost and, yes, The Hunger Games – but we don’t. (Thanks to Ariane Lange at Buzzfeed for the whole collection and to @uheartdanny for the link.)

At least Rosita could conceivably have a razor. How do women supposedly shave their armpits on deserted islands? Did the Beast slip Belle a razor, you know, just as part of his controlling personality? And maybe some persnickety women would continue to shave even if they were lost in purgatory, but Ripley in Alien? Come on.

Our interest in realism only goes so far. Armpit hair on women is apparently one of its limits.

Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.