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It's one of those ideas that's so radical, it might just work: women fighters wearing actual armor. You know, that covers their vital organs and protects them against damage. A new tumblr blog celebrates "Women Fighters in Reasonable Armor." The armor may be reasonable, but the pictures are awesome. More »
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If you're a woman, your old yearbook photos could predict whether you'll have a happy life. At least, that's what one study found — until you drill a bit deeper. Because it turns out the researchers were using a pretty narrow definition of "a happy life." More »
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You're not going to believe this, but science has proven that men are way more likely to take women up on random offers of sex than vice versa. But some brave truth-seekers asked the vital question...what about in other countries? More »
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Now that women dominate the US workforce, will they become our new robot overlords? Nope. According to current labor statistics, they'll be the new working class. Here are three ways a female working class could change the world. More »
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Who will be the big screen's next Sigourney Weaver? We've had a few years now without any great action movies starring women, but 2010 could be the year this changes. Here are six picks for the action heroines of tomorrow. More »
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After taking plenty of hits from critics and facing a dismal soft opening, Lovely Bones ramped up its ticket sales by playing to a new crowd: tween and teen girls. Will this spark an insurgence of thoughtful supernatural women-targeted films? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5451576&view=rss&microfeed=true What do women authors and science-fiction writers have in common? A notable absence on Publishers Weekly's list of the ten best books of the year. PW apologized proactively for the omission, saying "We wanted the list to reflect what we thought were the top 10 books of the year with no other consideration....We ignored gender and genre and who had the buzz....It disturbed us when we were done that our list was all male. There was kicking and screaming for a science fiction title. A literary ghost story came so close, it squeaked." More »
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We're still a week away from watching Megan Fox snack on schoolboys in Jennifer's Body. In the meantime, we're serving up a list of the other women in science fiction who hunger for human flesh. More »
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Click to viewThe most recent Star Trek trailer briefly featured a particular species of green-skinned female known for their seductive powers. Green women are a force to be reckoned with in science fiction, and they range from pint-sized invaders to powerful warriors and cunning schemers. We list the green-skinned ladies who make the universe a more colorful place. More »
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In 1980, science fiction writer and editor Ben Bova told a group of women writers, “Neither as writers nor as readers have you raised the level of science fiction a notch. Women have written a lot of books about dragons and unicorns, but damned few about future worlds in which adult problems are addressed.” It’s no wonder that female science fiction authors have disguised their gender in order to have their work taken seriously. We have a list of women who used male and androgynous pseudonyms to compete in the male-dominated field of speculative fiction. More »
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You never really realize how unpractical a superhero outfit is until you see it in real life. Barbie's new superhero collection debuts with DC Comic's sonic-screaming badass Black Canary, in all her fish leggy glory (suitable for collectors above the age of 14). I forgot how ridiculously slutty Dinah could look (although I'm sure I'll be reminded again at Comic-Con). But this Barbie recreation of this comic book character begs the question: what other female superhero costumes are completely unsuitable for actual battle, besides Halle Berry's Catwoman? My votes go to Zatanna and Liberty Belle. More »
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You might have noticed a distinct lack of female heroes at the movies this summer, Sex And The City aside. It's almost as if the studios decided women couldn't carry a big movie — but nah, I'm sure it's just a coincidence. Luckily, the summer's big movies have a wealth of female supporting leads, and almost any one of them could carry a movie of their own. (Let's just pretend Catwoman and Elektra never existed, 'kay?) Which one of these sidekicks deserves to kick up her heels in her own film? More »
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I love when clueless humans tell me to my face that women don't like science fiction. Usually they tell me this at a science fiction convention, after we have talked about scifi for an hour and I have said that I edit a science fiction blog. These humans have an amazing ability to not believe their eyes, which is the only way I can explain what's happening when somebody says to my face that women like me don't exist. And unfortunately, the SciFi Channel seems to have the same problem: There's an article in the New York Times today about how the channel boosted its ratings among women by de-emphasizing spaceships in Battlestar Galactica ads and airing supernatural horror movies. I cannot believe the stupidity here. More »
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Buck Rogers faced the same problem that vexed Gilligan, the Professor, and the Skipper. Except instead of "Mary Ann or Ginger?" it was "Wilma or Ardala?" You have to admit, that's a pretty tough choice. Especially since both women are tough, calculating, skilled, and in powerful positions. We all know Buck preferred Colonel Wilma Deering (who outranked him), but there were plenty of scenes where he looked ready to "biddi biddi biddi" with Princess Ardala. Which do you think he should have dated? Examine the evidence and sound off in today's thawed-out triviagasm. More »
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Annalee is asking costumed fans roaming the halls of WonderCon one crucial question: How they would strip out of their costumes if they had to get naked really, really fast? She caught up with the dayglo assassins from TIGER PUNCH!, a forthcoming comic book featuring hot girls in eye-blistering gear. Find out how they'd strip down inside. More »
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Has the Sci Fi Channel lurched too far towards being Lifetime: Television for Women, since its president, Bonnie Hammer, decided to emphasize "human drama" over space battles? Maybe, judging from the suburban Flash Gordan revamp and a spate of Battlestar episodes about Lee Adama's love life. The sad thing is that the Oprah-ized Sci Fi drives away women who really like science fiction, laments blogger Lisa Fary. [Pink Raygun] More »
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Christina Ricci wants you to know how her character in Speed Racer gets to kung fu fight, fly a helicopter, and wear matching lipstick. She even has "a specific outfit that she wears when she flies the helicopter." Ricci says the film celebrates her "as a girl and a woman," and adds that the Mom character "always has her apron on." So girls can punch and fly, as long as they have an outfit ready, especially for kitchen work. Not only that, but apparently this flick makes boys cry. More »
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Totally Nerdcore provided a geeky calendar for 2007 that featured naked women playing old school video games, and marked crucial dates like the day HAL 9000 was switched on. Now the 2008 sequel is out, featuring a slew of superpowered nude women. Check out some NSFW images from both calendars after the jump. More »
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Futuristic fire-fighting boots and a robot dog may not be the focal point of this piece of concept art, but they're definitely the most intriguing. We're not sure what these boots are supposed to do in the first place, but we know that the artist calls them "fire pumps." More »
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One of the best parts of Trek Classic is its propensity to dress its hot ladies in strange cloth squares, or to give them improbably huge go go boots. Sure, it was weird that female officers brought the male ones coffee on the Bridge, but hey it was the 1960s and everything was groovy. If you want to remember the good old days of boobtacular green ladies, check out Poletti's Galactically Hot Women gallery at Flickr. [BoingBoing] More »
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The first person on Mars may be a woman, says a Kansas op-ed. For the first time ever, two female space shuttle commanders on separate missions met up in space. But NASA is facing questions about its plans to end the space shuttle program in 2010. [Kansas.com, KHOU.com] More »
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