After overcoming a tragic gaming addiction, writing for major industry news sources and Lifetime and training my dog to do fist bumps I launched FemPop to create a place where people could talk about gender and movies and television and games and junk.
I also bake a mean buttermilk pie.
Calamity Jane for all its sexist and offensive language, for the trite romances and the brightly colored dressed, allows Jane to be a transgressor. Does she feminize herself in the end? Yes. She even gives up her gun when she puts on that wedding dress. But she stays, at her core, the same woman we saw at the beginning of the film. A butch little dynamo who won’t take s**t from anyone.
