Mindy Kaling

Welcome back to another episode of Bitch Popaganda! Tune in as Julie, Kjerstin, and Kelsey discuss fall TV's "season of the vagina," Mindy Kaling's "Flick Chicks," and the retro sexism of Pan Am and the Playboy Club.



Links and more after the jump!

• Anita Sarkeesian and Feminist Frequency were featured on a French blog this week (translated version sans video ici)! 
• Miss "Grey's Rounds"? Everett Maroon is recapping Grey's Anatomy at his site, Trans/plant/portation. 
• I'm planning on taking the weekend off reading stories from Mindy Kaling's new book into the mirror and pretending they're mine. 
• Hey, Gene Lyons, thanks to your racist, sexist rebuttal to Dr. Melissa Harris Perry this week, someone's made a handy flowchart for whether or not you should compare someone you disagree with to the KKK. 
• FNX: First Nations Experience, a "new multimedia platform featuring authentic voices and stories reflecting the reality of the Native American experience and that of indigenous peoples worldwide," launched in Southern California this week on KVCR, with plans to expand within a year. 
• RIP Sylvia Robinson, rap record producer and R&B singer. Robinson produced the groundbreaking "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang and "The Message" by Grandmaster Flesh and the Furious Five. 
• You're Welcome says thanks, but no thanks to comparing being trans to being fat, or being gay to being black, or other identity comparisons.

Tell us what you think or share your favorite posts of the week in the comments!

According to their fan site, Subtle Sexuality is "a girl group that features two divalicious divas: the beautiful and mysterious KELLY KAPOOR and the pretty ERIN HANNON." Of course, for those of us who watch NBC's The Office, Subtle Sexuality is a hilarious web project featuring the talented Mindy Kaling and Ellie Kemper (along with BJ Novak and Ed Helms). Behold:



The videos and the ever-necessary feminist critique, after the jump!

If you've been hearing strains of Ray Parker, Jr. coming from your entertainment news lately, it's not just Slimer playing tricks on you. Ghostbusters 3 is going to begin filming this winter!

Now, you're probably thinking either, "I ain't afraid of no ghosts" or, "WTF does this have to do with a feminist response to pop culture?". Well, first of all you probably should be afraid of ghosts because they are dangerous, and second, here is a quote from the Entertainment Weekly piece on the new film:

Aykroyd told the Times that he envisions a new five-person team of ghost hunters that could even include several women.

Women busting ghosts? Certainly there is a feminist response to be had here. Let's talk about which women we'd like to see wearing those new proton packs, after the jump!

From her television appearance as a phone sex operator to her penchant for night cheese, 30 Rock's Liz Lemon has provided a lot of laughs this season. Since the season finale of 30 Rock airs tonight on NBC, this seems like as good of a time as any to revisit some of Lemon's more memorable third-season moments. Since this is Bitch, this also seems like as good of a time as any to ask the question that is burning a hole in all of our minds: Is Liz Lemon a feminist? And does that matter?

Let's start this retrospective way back at the beginning of season three. Here is a recap of the season premiere (sorry about the annoying NBC promo stuff):



So... Liz Lemon is baby crazy and (sadly) not the victim of sexual harassment. Yeah, I guess that might not be overly feminist. Is it wrong then that I laughed out loud (especially at all of the Will Arnett parts)?

Let's watch a few more videos after the jump, shall we?

By taking her girly character to the extreme on The Office, Mindy Kaling's showing over 9 million viewers a week just how laughable feminine stereotypes can be.

Plus, she'd be SUPER fun to go shopping with.