TANK GIRLS WITH STEAMPUNK FEMINIST APLOMB,
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In my last post I wrote about a nightmare where I was forced to play wargames. I am a pacifist, but war and violence and malevolence persist as we know, so who better to turn to in this context, than Tank Girl and her colleague, Jet Girl. The film is set in 2033, on a post-apocalyptic earth, enduring a decade-long drought and overlorded by a corrupt corporate villain, Kesslee. Loosely based on the comic Tank Girl, our heroine befriends a shy, but brilliant engineer (later to become Jet Girl), and they embark on a mission to bring down the misogynistic sadist Kesslee.
For a great revisit of Tank Girl’s themes and cultural impact, I recommend “‘Tank Girl’ taught Hollywood representation matters — 25 years later the message still does,” written in April of this year by Megan Carpentier, editor of THINK magazine. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/tank-girl-taught-hollywood-representation-matters-25-years-later-message-ncna1172986
“The movie delighted a generation of women who wanted to see the ways they saw the world arrayed against them reflected onscreen — and who also wanted to wear combat boots with fishnets.” – Carpentier,
#tankgirl #feminism #agency #riotgrrrl #VR #virtualreality #Bechdeltest #sciencefiction #postapocalypse
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In my last post I wrote about a nightmare where I was forced to play wargames. I am a pacifist, but war and violence and malevolence persist as we know, so who better to turn to in this context, than Tank Girl and her colleague, Jet Girl. The film is set in 2033, on a post-apocalyptic earth, enduring a decade-long drought and overlorded by a corrupt corporate villain, Kesslee. Loosely based on the comic Tank Girl, our heroine befriends a shy, but brilliant engineer (later to become Jet Girl), and they embark on a mission to bring down the misogynistic sadist Kesslee.
For a great revisit of Tank Girl’s themes and cultural impact, I recommend “‘Tank Girl’ taught Hollywood representation matters — 25 years later the message still does,” written in April of this year by Megan Carpentier, editor of THINK magazine. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/tank-girl-taught-hollywood-representation-matters-25-years-later-message-ncna1172986
“The movie delighted a generation of women who wanted to see the ways they saw the world arrayed against them reflected onscreen — and who also wanted to wear combat boots with fishnets.” – Carpentier,
#tankgirl #feminism #agency #riotgrrrl #VR #virtualreality #Bechdeltest #sciencefiction #postapocalypse