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I haven't seen Up yet. I probably will. But when I first read the synopsis, something snapped: AAAUUUUGH YET ANOTHER ADVENTURE MOVIE ABOUT A BOY OMFG. I think I bored everyone that day with my blah blah no movies about girls blah blah blah. But all I've seen so far are people talking about how good it was, or how sad, or possibly both. Nothing new there, really. So it was wonderful to catch this on twitter: "Ask Pixar to make a movie about a girl? Why, that's just P.C. B.S.!", referencing this open letter on NPR.org, entitled "Dear Pixar, from all the girls with band-aids on their knees". Read them both. It won't take long. (Also of note: a column about the Bechdel rule, and how hard it is to find movies that fit it.)

No point here, just life as usual.

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I don't know the reasons myself, but that (Girls will read boys' stories but boys won't read girls' stories.") was certainly a phenomenon that the librarians at the all-boys' school where I used to teach were constantly beating their heads against. (Even though, being an all-boys school, it was in many ways *less* gender-role-segregated than the norm -- performance of masculinity is totally different when there are no girls around to perform for.)