Join us for Merri’s last WWBUT before maternity leave! We’re talking about cults, labyrinths, romance, and more. Mistakes: At some point, Missy heard someone pronounce Borges as “BOR-hays” and assumed that they were right. They were not, but she didn’t thinking to look it up until afterward. Sorry for calling him HOR-hay BOR-hays. What Missy’s Been Up To: Reading DIE by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans, Clayton Cowell, and Rian Huges Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman Wordslut by Amanda Montell Watching Red, White, and Royal Blue The Boy and the Heron What Merri’s Be ..read more

He’s just Ken… but what does it mean to be ‘just’ anything? Join us as we take an even closer look at 2023’s Barbie movie, focusing on patriarchy, domination, existentialism, and the goals of feminism. Some Sources You Might Find Interesting: I Regret To Inform You That “Barbie” Is A Children’s Movie by Jude Ellison S. Doyle The Will to Change by bell hooks Did feminism FAIL men? by Alexander Avila gaslighter_’s twitter thread about Ken as a class hero  Social critique from Archivist Ken by Isaac Fellman Barbie Is an Existential Delight by Emmet Asher-Perrin Who is capable of dreaming of ..read more

Vampires, werewolves, necromancers, some guy, and our favorite teenage dingdongs.  What Missy’s Been Up To: Reading Harrow the Ninth and Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Watching Only Lovers Left Alive Playing The Quarry What Merri’s Been Up To: Watching Saw X Expendables 4 North by Northwest Selling Sunset Sex Education Our Website | Twitter | Facebook | Patreon | Merch | Episode Transcripts The post WWBUT 99 – That Boy Can MOPE appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS ..read more

Come on Barbie, let’s go take a potentially controversial look at 2023’s biggest summer blockbuster! We’re talking about Mattel’s dubious history, what Barbieland is, and how the film does and does not tackle the truth and diversity of girlhood and womanhood. Some Sources You Might Find Interesting: Barbie: A Subversive Review by Carefree Wandering explaining the hyperfemininity aesthetic by Mina Le Just a Girl by Gayle Wald Bimbos are good, actually by Morgan Sung We’ve Reached Peak Girl by Delia Cai The ‘Girlification’ Of Online Life Has A Dark Side by Merryana Salem Girlhood Interrupted: Th ..read more

In this week’s WWBUT, we’re talking about revisiting books, being skeptical about nice characters, and Big Vape. What Missy’s Been Up To: Watching Hyo-ri’s Bed and Breakfast Sex Education Season 4 Reading Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Abundance of Kindness by ARG What Merri’s Been Up To: Watching Big Vape Joy Ride Heat Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe  Our Website | Twitter | Facebook | Patreon | Merch | Episode Transcripts The post WWBUT 98 – Vapers Gonna Vape, Vape, Vape, Vape, Vape appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS ..read more

We’re deep diving into Jaws (that’s an ocean pun!), taking a look at film history, genre, class, and a whole lot of masculinity. Mistakes: Missy apologizes for her pronunciation of Stephen E. Bowles, which now that she’s looking at it again is… probably not said the way she said it. Some Sources You Might Find Interesting: Relocating the Western in Jaws by Matthew Melia How the Western Was Lost (and Why It Matters) by Michael Agresta Jaws as submarine movie by Robert Willson Great White Shark a hyperreal monster; conceptual contemplation on the post-Jaws image by Raj Sekhar Aich The Shark in J ..read more

After our long absence, we’re back with a supersized WWBUT to catch you up on everything we’ve been doing in the last couple of months.  What Missy’s Been Up To: Watching Little Women E.T. Tar What Lies Beneath Jungle Cruise Interstellar American Psycho It Happened One Night Paddington Reading Fight Like Hell by Kim Kelly Let’s Talk About Death! by Cait Zellers A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik What Merri’s Been Up To: Watching TMNT: Mutant Mayhem The Faculty   The Flash RuPaul’s Drag Race Malum Before Sunset Listening To The Retrievals Our Website | Twitter | Fac ..read more

We’re back after an unexpected hiatus to talk about God, AI, and human relationships. That’s right—we’re discussing Mrs. Davis, the bonkers 2023 show from Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof about a nun versus AI, maybe God, and her own mother.  Some Sources You Might Find Interesting: How ‘Mrs. Davis’ Creators Used AI in the Writers Room | SXSW 2023 by The Hollywood Reporter Experts Doubt Ethical AI Design Will Be Broadly Adopted as the Norm Within the Next Decade by Lee Rainie, Janna Anderson and Emily A. Vogels Wikipedia Entry for the Moral Responsibility of Artificial Systems  ‘Mrs ..read more

Important news: we’ve seen Barbie, and we’re here to talk about it. We’re also taking a look at Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer (and getting extremely mad about book banning), Transformers, and more. What Missy’s Been Up To: Reading Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed Watching Barbie Titanic What Merri’s Been Up To: Watching Drag Race Barbie Wrath of Becky Transformers Our Website | Twitter | Facebook | Patreon | Merch | Episode Transcripts The post WWBUT 95 – Where Are the Gay Dinosaurs, Oppenheimer? appeared first on FAK ..read more

We return from a surprise break to talk about Spider-Men, how we don't believe that all men are demons, and the first rule of book club.  The post WWBUT 69 – Harry Styles’s Fursona appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS ..read more