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such_heights) wrote2009-05-13 05:52 pm
such_heights) wrote2009-05-13 05:52 pm
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AfterEllen's Top 100
After Ellen posted their Hot 100 -- for the third year in a row, queer women prove to have excellent taste! Also, it is such a refreshing change from the lists you get in men's magazines -- here, qualifiers for hotness include things like 'does great activist work'. 
The reactions of celebrities involved are also of the win. For instance, if I didn't have enough reasons to watch T:TSCC already:
(She's back up to number three this year, hee.)
So, for fun and frolics:
my five favourite women who made the list
Rachel Maddow
Incredibly smart, savvy and entertaining, a blogger and One Of Us who's using her powers for good, and out and awesome -- that's pretty hot.
Tina Fey
There can never be enough women proving that no, seriously, we can do comedy -- everything Tina Fey does is golden, from 30 Rock to Saturday Night Live. I, um, may her love her best for writing 'Mean Girls'. Tell no one.
Katee Sackhoff
She's spectacular on-screen as the ultimate badass Kara Thrace, and she's charming and pretty hardcore her own self off-screen too. For instance, she bikes. Sometimes with Tricia Helfer. ♥
Michelle Obama
You lot in the States got yourself a pretty wonderful First Lady. The list of Somewhat Embarrassing Things Amy Has Cried At includes this speech she gave to girls at a school in Islington, London.
Amanda Palmer
Not only does Amanda Palmer front one of my favourite bands, The Dresden Dolls, making her a fantastic writer, singer, pianist and performer, she's also a one-woman 'fuck you' to the patriarchy, to restrictive norms of feminine beauty, to everything that makes me so crazy, and always with admirable articulateness, good humour, and all-round win.
my five favourite women who didn't make the list
Freema Agyeman
Her acting makes me laugh, makes me cry (haters to the left), and her interviews make me clap in glee a little bit with how utterly adorkable she is. She's been a fabulous addition to the New Who gang and to the BBC's larger oeuvre of great actors.
Vienna Teng
An artist I'd never have discovered without the All-Knowing Flist, I can't imagine my music collection without her albums now. She's got a voice gorgeous enough to give you shivers, and that's not the only way she's stunning.
Regina Spektor
For one, she has one of the best smiles ever. Then she's written some of my favourite music, been a role model for a whole new generation of female musicians, and she's playing in the UK this summer, where I shall see her! My arms, they do this: \o/
Eve Myles
Look, I love all the Torchwood cast, you know I do, but now Burn and Naoko have gone, Eve Myles is the best actor in it. Unflinchingly fabulous on-screen and delightfully down to earth in interviews, she's obviously having a brilliant time, and is very hot for it.
Emma Thompson
From the same batch of UK arts types as Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, she's a Cambridge graduate, an Oscar-winning actor and writer, and a total hero for countless British women.
Do share your personal picks in the comments!
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The reactions of celebrities involved are also of the win. For instance, if I didn't have enough reasons to watch T:TSCC already:
Lena Headey [on falling from No. 4 in 2007 to No. 10 in 2008]: "My God, I have to go to the gym! I've fallen six. That hurts...Vote for me! Vote for me, I'll change the world! [laughs]"
(She's back up to number three this year, hee.)
So, for fun and frolics:
Rachel Maddow
Incredibly smart, savvy and entertaining, a blogger and One Of Us who's using her powers for good, and out and awesome -- that's pretty hot.
Tina Fey
There can never be enough women proving that no, seriously, we can do comedy -- everything Tina Fey does is golden, from 30 Rock to Saturday Night Live. I, um, may her love her best for writing 'Mean Girls'. Tell no one.
Katee Sackhoff
She's spectacular on-screen as the ultimate badass Kara Thrace, and she's charming and pretty hardcore her own self off-screen too. For instance, she bikes. Sometimes with Tricia Helfer. ♥
Michelle Obama
You lot in the States got yourself a pretty wonderful First Lady. The list of Somewhat Embarrassing Things Amy Has Cried At includes this speech she gave to girls at a school in Islington, London.
Amanda Palmer
Not only does Amanda Palmer front one of my favourite bands, The Dresden Dolls, making her a fantastic writer, singer, pianist and performer, she's also a one-woman 'fuck you' to the patriarchy, to restrictive norms of feminine beauty, to everything that makes me so crazy, and always with admirable articulateness, good humour, and all-round win.
Freema Agyeman
Her acting makes me laugh, makes me cry (haters to the left), and her interviews make me clap in glee a little bit with how utterly adorkable she is. She's been a fabulous addition to the New Who gang and to the BBC's larger oeuvre of great actors.
Vienna Teng
An artist I'd never have discovered without the All-Knowing Flist, I can't imagine my music collection without her albums now. She's got a voice gorgeous enough to give you shivers, and that's not the only way she's stunning.
Regina Spektor
For one, she has one of the best smiles ever. Then she's written some of my favourite music, been a role model for a whole new generation of female musicians, and she's playing in the UK this summer, where I shall see her! My arms, they do this: \o/
Eve Myles
Look, I love all the Torchwood cast, you know I do, but now Burn and Naoko have gone, Eve Myles is the best actor in it. Unflinchingly fabulous on-screen and delightfully down to earth in interviews, she's obviously having a brilliant time, and is very hot for it.
Emma Thompson
From the same batch of UK arts types as Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, she's a Cambridge graduate, an Oscar-winning actor and writer, and a total hero for countless British women.
Do share your personal picks in the comments!
This entry posted at dreamwidth and livejournal; comments enabled on both.
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I don't know how I've missed Vienna Teng. She's fabulous and just my kind of music. Thank you for mentioning her! And I do agree with the love for Regina Spektor.
Favorites on the list: Keira Knightley, Penelope Cruz, Cate Blanchett (her performance as Bob Dylan - plain amazing), and Salma Hayek.
My personal list would include Audrey Tatou, musician Frida Hyvönen (http://www.myspace.com/fridahyvonen), lesbian blogger & language geek of rang <a href="http://www.sara.kipara.se/2>Sara Lövestam</a> and Johanna Sigurdardottir - the first openly gay prime minister in the world.
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