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The feminist perspective on the manic pixie dream girl

When I was a textbook pre-teen girl trying to figure out who I was and how I wanted people to see me, I would often aspire to be one of those eccentric, free spirits I saw in films. Those “manic pixie dream girls,” as film critic Nathan Rabin called them, were my idols because I thought that I wanted to stand out and be “different.” I realized later in life that these characters, as inspiring as they may seem, are really put in movies to serve the agenda of the male character.


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Red Bull Stratos pilot speaks today

A member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame and Gator alumus Colonel Joe Kittinger will speak at UF today in the Reitz Union Auditorium at 4 p.m. about his contributions to the Red Bull Stratos program.


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Obama’s ‘kill-list’ memo is hypocritical

On March 31, 2008, speaking to supporters at a campaign stop, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama argued, “The biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all … and that’s what I intend to reverse when I’m president of the United State of America.”


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Mother of bullied daughter speaks at UF

“You are a bad person and everybody hates you. Have a sh--y rest of your life. The world would be a better place without you” were the last words 13-year-old Megan Meier read before she committed suicide Oct. 16, 2006.



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