The Glowing Edge

Tag: Athletic Women Blog

  • Power Up, Women

    Power Up, Women

    I need to travel over to Athletic Women Blog more regularly, because every time I go I get dosed up with a massive hit of all-out inspiration. Look people, I know this video is a advert for UnderArmor (which I do in fact wear), but the fact is that any commercial that powers me up like this is a win. For them, for me, for my game. Women love to kick ass and take names, don’t we?

    Here’s another one, also poached from Rob Mars at AWB, that does the same thing and it’s not even selling me stuff. It’s just an incredible show of woman power in its most graceful and (potentially) dangerous form. I clearly need to sign up for ballet lessons. Somebody hand me a sword.

    Finally, I can’t seem to get embed support on this one, but check out this women’s boxing newsreel, dated 1928, from British Pathe. Again, posted by Rob on AWB. It cracks me up that the woman (who is boxing a man) is wearing her boxing boots with a fringed leotard. She flat out rocks, too.

  • Avatar: Aliens plus Strong Women, Sign Me Up

    Anyone can tell you that I’m not a huge movie buff, so when one catches my attention it’s a standout. I love sci fi, drama, and most especially strong female characters (surprise!).

    Avatar is crammed with cliches and I can tell you right now how it’s going to end but I don’t even care. I have to see movies with alien planets (or moons of alien planets: hello, Ewoks!); from Hyperion to Darkover to Dune, I love ’em. Discworlds, Smoke Rings, they’re all freaky wonderful and I’m compelled to immerse myself in the flora and fauna.

    Now, put Lt. Ripley in it, and I’m aaaaallll over it. Sigourney Weaver can save the planet, or not, depending on how bad you piss her off. And Avatar has Michelle Rodriguez, one of my fave actresses from Blue Crush (she played Eden, and was far more compelling than Kate Bosworth; she was also the boxer chick in Girlfight). As if that weren’t enough, we get Nyota Uhura of Star Trek, which would be the very sexy Zoe Saldana.

    I think there’s some dudes in it too.

    Special thanks to Rob Mars over at the Athletic Women blog for the heads-up on this one. Avatar opens on December 18th.