Please. Boys nowadays already are femalized way too much.
according to you? ok, according to me, boys are not "femalized" enough. why should i take your word over my own?
the lathe of heaven i would place in a genre of sci-fi related to fundamental challenges to individual epistemology along with works by p. k. dick, and o. butler.
In other words, the criticism does not appear to be that the movie is addressed to the interests of teenage girls specifically, but that in order to address those interests and broaden the audience this "sci-fi" movie has become "too fantasy."
again raising the question: why the double standard? how many hollywood sci-fi movies have ignored "hard sci-fi" in order to appeal to sterotypical teenage boy fantasies? (unrealistic explosions, blasting and transit sounds in space vacuum, gratuitous and unlikely representations of violence, kirk dangling off the edge of yet another cliff...) yet these stylistic inclusions do not merit the same cries of alarm, that the stereotyped fantasies of teenage girls do.
also you clearly missed the point i was making: just because den of geek finds the interests of teenage girls more objectionable than the interests of teenage boys doesn't sci-fi catering to the former any less sci-fi.
most emetic of the artwork plastered over teenage girls' MySpace pages
sure... while teenage boys' fantasies get exalted into "real sci-fi"? (like, say the recent star trek movie?) mayhap den of geek should adjust his testosterone obsession by reading ursula le guin, c. j. cherryh, octavia butler, dorris lessing, joanna rush, emma bull, oh and heck, anne mccaffrey. i can't help but imagine that it would nicely leaven the quality of questions about sci-fi he poses.
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