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Are we all living in The Matrix? This is an enormously uninteresting question, at least to myself, but this article about it is accompanied by a very clever picture.

A very brief love affair

Pick up Cynthia Heimel's If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?. Collection of amusing magazine columns. Flip randomly to brilliant essay calling for female anti-heroes in film ("I want to see women who are rowdy and difficult... who are prey to lust and confusion and unbelievable fuck-ups..."). Experience delight and inspiration. Consider purchase. Turn to introduction which claims women scared of feminism because of media love affair with "Andrea-Dworkin type feminists" who believe "all penetration is rape". Savvy journalist has fallen for anti-feminist journalist bogeywoman. Pocket money, reshelve book. Point LJ readers to Snopes debunking of "all sex is rape" canard.

More SG-1

Jon: "This is the two-dimensional shadow of a good show."