{"id":12169,"date":"2009-06-14T14:56:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T21:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/06\/14\/12169.html"},"modified":"2009-06-14T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T21:56:25","slug":"pixar-girls-and-awesome-girl-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/06\/14\/pixar-girls-and-awesome-girl-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixar, girls, and awesome girl-movie titles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/monkeysee\/2009\/06\/dear_pixar_from_all_the_girls.html?ft=1&f=93568166\">open letter to Pixar<\/a> from Linda Holmes, asking for a movie featuring a girl who is not a princess.<\/p>\n<p>And, even better, binsybaby suggests some <a href=\"http:\/\/binsybaby.livejournal.com\/628453.html\">titles for cool ladies movies<\/a> such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Sisterhood of the Traveling MONSTER TRUCK ON FIRE [Infernokrusher ftw!]<\/li>\n  <li>What a Girl Wants IS BASE JUMPING LESSONS<\/li>\n  <li>[And my favorite:] Bridget Jones's Diary OF COMPLEX TIME MACHINE BLUEPRINTS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are a whole bunch of comments providing other titles along the same lines. Very nicely done. Further suggestions welcome!<\/p>\n<p>Added later: I can't resist mentioning a couple of my favorites from the comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>The Little Mermaid GOES SPEARFISHING (andy_longwood)<\/li>\n  <li> Pride and Prejudice AND BORDER NEGOTIATIONS (andy_longwood)<\/li>\n  <li>Freaky Friday WHEN MY MUTANT POWERS KICKED IN AND I STARTED AN ALL-GIRL TEAM OF SUPERLADIES (andy_longwood)<\/li>\n  <li>While You Were Sleeping SHE PAINTED THE KITCHEN, CURED AIDS, INVENTED TIME TRAVEL AND RAN FOR PRESIDENT (scaram0uche)<\/li>\n  <li>Love Actually ISN'T MY TOP PRIORITY AT THE MOMENT AND I WOULD RATHER FINISH NINJA COLLEGE AND GET A CAREER IN ASSKICKING BEFORE THINKING ABOUT SETTLING INTO ANY KIND OF RELATIONSHIP (doxinator)<\/li>\n  <li>Rapunzel WASHES THAT MAN RIGHT OUT OF HER HAIR (carrieaki)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(I suppose at this juncture I should link to the new <a href=\"http:\/\/girlycon.org\/\">GirlyCon<\/a> website, about \"girl canon\": \"Celebrations of girls' books, and critiques of how they treat gender, race, class, and other issues.\")<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent open letter to Pixar from Linda Holmes, asking for a movie featuring a girl who is not a princess&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,47,18,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-entries","category-gender","category-humor","category-movies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}