The Supremes Edition of the XX Gabfest

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. Download the podcast, or subscribe to our RSS feed, or through iTunes.

Tags: Jon & Kate Plus 8, Kate Gosselin, Sonia Sotomayor, Terminator Salvation

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Emily Bazelon is a founding editor of Double X, and a writer and editor at Slate.

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Female action heroes

By: jefmcg | Fri, 05/29/2009 - 08:04

A few years ago I found myself watching True Lies on TV (a nasty, misogynistic and racist movie) and quietly bemoaned the Jamie Lee Curtis character: "What happened to the great female action characters like Sarah Connor or Ripley". After a pause, I realised that James Cameron had been responsible for all three characters (with help from Ridley Scott), plus a couple of go-to types in the Abyss.

It's no surprise to me that McG can't produce good female action heroes, if Cameron stopped 15 years ago.