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Why Do "Good Girls" Need to "Go Bad"?

Model Media post by Yoonj Kim on April 10, 2013 - 9:57am; tagged Britney Spears, jennifer lawrence, Selena Gomez, Spring Breakers, Vanessa Hudgens.

 

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In the entertainment industry, young female stars face a unique rite of passage: the performance for which they'll bare it all. It is ironic that for a young starlet to make the transformation to a “serious” performer, she is expected to show some skin.

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On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup

Bitch HQ post by Andi Zeisler on March 1, 2013 - 8:57am; tagged Anne Hathaway, housework, jennifer lawrence, Violence Against Women Act.

Happy Friday! Here's all the feminist news that's fit to print...you know, on the Internet.

• As you probably already know, the comprehensive Violence Against Women Act was passed yesterday. [New York Times]

• Here are all the Republicans who voted against the act—no Democrats did. Oh hey, Michelle Bachmann! Didn't expect to see you here! (Just kidding, we totally did.) [The Atlantic]

• Ladies doing less housework means that ladies be plumpin' up, according to this really awfully sexist piece in the New York Times. I mean. [New York Times]

• Whoa, Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Who vetted this incredibly racist cover illustration? And also, can you issue a real apology next time? [Columbia Journalism Review]

• South Dakota is attempting to amend its 72-hour waiting period for an abortion so that weekends and holidays don't count as part of those hours, thereby lengthening the wait considerably. Perhaps they're counting on a lot of women being like, "Huh, it's Labor Day, guess I'll go through with this after all." [Think Progress]

• Clutch magazine wants to know why so few white feminists had anything to say about The Onion's Oscar-night tweet about Quvenzhané Wallis. [Clutch]

• And on the Oscar tip.... As a non–Hathaway hater, I appreciate that someone took on the question of why everyone seems to hate Anne Hathaway but love Jennifer Lawrence. Does no one here remember Mia Thermopolis? [The Cut]

• Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop died this week at the age of 96. This remembrance praises his rational, science-based, and nonsensational approach to public health—among other things, it notes that while Koop himself was prolife, he refused political pressure to declare that abortion caused detrimental health effects in women. [RH Reality Check]

• Finally, kick off your weekend right by imagining, with the help of this photo, how great a Veronica Mars reunion special would be. [Vulture]

Have a great weekend! And as always, link to any further reading suggestions in the comments...

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Screw the Rest of the Oscars, Jennifer Lawrence is the Best

Movies post by Michelle Sinsky on February 25, 2013 - 6:25pm; tagged academy awards, hunger games, jennifer lawrence, Oscars, silver linings playbook, Winter's Bone.

Jennifer Lawrence flicking off photographers at the OscarsLast night’s Oscars ceremony was a hostile shitshow. Which is too bad, because if the night wasn’t marred by sexist jokes, all the headlines today should have been about the fabulous Jennifer Lawrence.

She contorted faces into the red carpet cameras, face-planted up the stairs in her tricky couture gown, and confessed that she literally wrecked herself with a shot of swill on an empty stomach before the post-show press question roundup. If you aren’t enamored with Jennifer Lawrence already for her steadfast refusal to take herself seriously under any circumstances, or for her acting chops, you have to concede this: when she used the arm not wrapped around her Oscar statuette to extend a middle finger on her way to the press microphone, she made the Oscars’ tedious and ugly into a platform for how she actually felt.

BOOM. I love her. She might as well have been playing cupid in the Hunger Games, loosing arrows into my heart.

Lawrence has repeatedly addressed the media’s reduction of the healthy female body to skin and bones with the self-effacing and defiant assertions to the mainstream women’s lifestyle magazines. Elle notoriously quoted her in their December cover story, “In Hollywood, I’m obese. I’m considered a fat actress. I’m Val Kilmer in that one picture on the beach.”  

As for the rest of her body, she has quickly accumulated enough physical skill to become a superhuman—without obsessing solely about her body.. In her training for the Hunger Games, she had to learn archery, hand-to-hand combat, and trained without dieting, saying “You can’t work when you’re hungry, you know?” Director David O. Russell mentioned her endurance during her Silver Linings choreography training and and yet she “wants to punch people” who talk about how much they love working out.  

Another big reason to love Lawrence: She takes on great roles. Her characters in Winter’s Bone and the Hunger Games are complex and interesting. In playing the role she won for last night, Tiffany in Silver Linings Playbook, it’s clear she takes her job and her responsibility extremely seriously. Without as smart and compassionate an actress, Tiffany’s role could easily have slipped into being a manic pixie dream girl.

In all honestly, Lawrence is one of those rare people who make it big in Hollywood and who we all still feel like could be the friend we could drive around with on a Friday night, cracking jokes about fitness clubs and wheatgrass addicts.  

So, Jennifer Lawrence, brush off the haters. There are a lot of us who can’t wait to see what you’ll do next. We'll be your best friend/backup whenever you need it. 

More reading: Our illustrated ode to Jennifer Lawrence's character Tiffany. 

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Comic: Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook

Movies post by Natalie Nourigat on February 5, 2013 - 4:36pm; tagged comics, jennifer lawrence, silver linings playbook.

I just saw Silver Linings Playbook and loved Jennifer Lawrence's character Tiffany. Loved it so much I made a comic about it.

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Silver Linings Playbook, Though Worthwhile, Tackles Mental Illness Without Subtlety

Movies post by Katie Presley on February 1, 2013 - 3:53pm; tagged bradley cooper, jennifer lawrence, movies, Oscars, silver linings playbook.

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It's not that Silver Linings Playbook fails at what it's trying to do, exactly. It's easy to see why the film racked up Oscar nominations, including a Best Actress nod for Jennifer Lawrence. But a movie that includes mental illness, family function and dysfunction, football, romance, and sparkly dance costumes is biting off a bit more than it can chew. 

 

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Revenge of the Feminerd: X-Men Goes Retro

Movies post by Jarrah Hodge on June 6, 2011 - 9:53am; tagged comics, General nerditry, james mcevoy, jennifer lawrence, michael fassbender, revenge of the feminerd, rose byrne, X-Men, x-men first class.

X-Men: First Class: the cast of the film--seven white people--stand outside looking off into the distance

I enjoyed most of X-Men: First Class. The acting, special effects, and writing were excellent, except possibly the two times Xavier tries to hit on women in bars by saying they have "groovy mutation[s]".

But then again, the whole movie had a cheesy retro vibe to it, with its Cold War setting and costumes (turtlenecks for the men, not much clothing at all for the women) giving it the feel of a cross between X-Men and a Connery-era Bond movie.

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