While 1980 features woman hating Thatcher and Regan, 1981 spawns a subversive feminist hero and socially conscious crusader – Ms. Pacman.
“Ms Pacman quickly overtook her husband to become the best selling game in the world. Featuring a strong female protagonist unafraid to eat constantly, kick ass and look good.”
Ha ha. Love it. Thanks to feministing.com who’s list of 10 depressing anti-feminist videos would have put me in ” I can’t live in this world” funk if it had not been for this bio on Ms. Pacman – my new hero.
Messed up your New Year’s Resolutions all ready? Not to worry, Chinese New Year is coming up in February. Think of it as your second chance; the first one was just a dress rehearsal where you got to try them on for size and throw out the ones that didn’t fit.
A couple of weeks ago, Now Magazine – Toronto’s free arts and culture weekly paper – featured some worthy resolutions from cool Toronto residents, and some of these are worth stealing. Best part is I’m sure they won’t mind if you do.
For example try novelist Susan Swan’s resolution on for size. This year Susan resolves to protest when it counts, and reminds us that as citizens we wield more influence than just our consumer power of boycotting brands.
“I’m an activist, not just a novelist, because activism works….In my lifetime, I’ve seen extraordinary political change. Feminism improved the quality of women’s lives irrevocably. When I started writing, all Canadian books were sold at the back of the store in a section labelled Canadiana, which suggested they were manuals for stripping pine furniture. Popular foreign books were sold at the front in the bestseller section, and foreign publishers expected writers like me to sell them the Canadian rights to a novel and forgo a Canadian edition of my work.”
Kind of makes the typical “I will to lose those last 10 lbs” resolution sound kind of small.