Perez Hilton is actually a gay man who pals around with Paris Hilton, among others, and is known for his aggressive outing of closeted celebrities. Salon actually ran an article about him a few months back.

If you're going to reference someone in your post, at least research him enough to know his gender.

1. Perez Hilton is a man. Maybe the she, her references were a cute way of pointing out he is homosexual, but just a clarification.

2. The Grindhouse films, if you bothered to see them, actually both feature prominent female action heroines. The Tarantino feature, in particular, shows "sisters doing it for themselves." I think Rolling Stone called it "the most violent chick flick ever." Which has some basis in fact. Assume makes an ass of u and me, I think. Im not saying these are great examplars of feminist art, but they are more than frat boy laughs and jerk offs also.

Decrying a film you haven't seen while quoting a source you've improperly identitfied as female. Well done.

By the way, Perez also has story published today about what a homewrecking WHORE 19 year old Evan Rachel Wood is. Truly a feminist voice in the wilderness.

While not likely to see Grindhouse myself, but for different reasons (can't STAND zombie movies), a quote like "Commenting on the misogyny of these films is hardly worth the trouble" after a whole paragraph about how you aren't going to see the movie was chuckle inducing.

I've been reminded why I don't read Broadsheet.

I'd never head of Perez Hilton until I saw an article about him (yes, him--I'm surprised the spelling didn't give you pause) in Salon a little while ago.

The Tarantino film in particular made my feminist heart jump with glee. After Stuntman Mike murders the first set of girls, he tries his luck with three armed Hollywood Stuntwomen, who proceed to track him down and beat him to death. The audiance was applauding- me included

And the Tarantino rapist doll is one of the most disgusting characters ever. He's a zombie who dissolves into pulsating, gelatinous goo... after Rose McGowan beats him over the head with her peg leg and jams it into his eye

I know someone else has mentioned it above but I thought I must speak up for one of my favorite directors. Although there are plenty of perfectly reasonable reasons you may have for not wanting to see Deathproof, even a perfunctory Google search would have informed you that this is one of the most aggressively pro-female movies recently made. (Spoilers …) From making the male lead cry like a little girl when shot by one of the films bad ass women to ending the film with our sexy triumvirate beating their male tormenter to death, you have never seen a movie reverse the traditional gender roles so completely. Trash ? Definitely. Misogynistic? Research before you rant.

Tarantino's segment "Death Proof" is a feminist revenge movie in which three capable women chase down and humiliate Kurt Russel's serial killing stunt man.

But hey, don't let truth get in the way of your jerking knee.

Tarentino DID NOT do the zombie flick "Planet Terror", that was Robert Rodriguez' contribution to Grindhouse (see, the movie is a double feature, in homage to the old grindhouse movies of the '70s and '80s, hence the subject matter). Tarentino did the OTHER feature, "Death Proof". So which one is this action figure from? I know this is a blog, not an article, but there still needs to be SOME fact checking! (And I didn't even SEE the movie)!

I looked it up. It's a paunchy, unattractive man waving a gun around. It's not glorifying rapists... well, at least I doubt anybody would want to be this particular character based on the figure. He doesn't look like a hero. If anything, it's a parody of action figures. Action figures aren't just for kids any more. Did you know you can get Freddy Krueger and Jason action figures? And a 12" talking "Stuntman Mike", from Grindhouse. Yes... figures glorifying fictional mass murderers. There is a market for villians as well as hero's.

I probably won't see Grindhouse, myself, at least until it comes out on DVD. My husband may want to see it, in which case I can sneak into the kitchen for the gory parts - are there any non-gory parts?. I watched "Kill Bill" with my husband, and was rather suprised to find that I enjoyed it. The violence was so extreme that it wasn't real. I don't usually like violent movies, but in this case the movie was more like a Monty Python sketch than a typical action movie. Tarantino's movies aren't so much about violence as they are about societies obsession with violence, and Hollywood's tendency to romanticize violence. How many times have we seen an action scene where the villians are shooting at the hero repeatedly and they keep missing? How many times have we seen action adventures where hundreds are killed, but there is no blood on the streets and no mourners crying for the victimes. Tarantino takes the violence to an extreme, and his movies become charicatures of action movies, teaching us all something in the process.

I know that I may be the fifth person to say this, but well it doesn't speak highly of the website to not bother to research the gender of a source. Especially when the source has any level of visibility in the media.

Also, these figures have been on store shelves since before the movie was released. Frankly, I'm surprised that there hasn't been some outcry in our ratings based soft news culture before this.

And I'm not sure that it's the best idea to vilify a movie that you haven't seen. Because, if you had, you would know that while the Rapist and Stuntman Mike do prey on women: they both meet with less then pleasant ends. It just seems a little bit hasty to jump to baseless conclusions when you know little or nothing about the source material aside from taking a cursory glance at a poster or the header for a review.