I've got three posts related to feminism brewing in my head. This is the first.
Presented, without commentary, three links to feminist readings of Joss Whedon's work.
(This one has been posted all over) A Radical Feminist reading.
A response by a sex-worker
A less negative feminist reading of Whedon's work
Presented, without commentary, three links to feminist readings of Joss Whedon's work.
(This one has been posted all over) A Radical Feminist reading.
A response by a sex-worker
A less negative feminist reading of Whedon's work
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- 12 Sep 2016, 02:20Should work wonderfully vegan - the only reason I went with lard over shortening is that neither of us on this trip are supposed to be eating soy, and soy oil was ingredient #1 on the vegetable…
- 8 Sep 2016, 22:56That looks great. The opposite of what I'm trying to do the next time I make bannock (gluten's fine, dairy isn't) but now I'm inspired.
- 8 Sep 2016, 20:44The trick is that it requires either an oven or an actual camp fire. We might be able to take it to the singing fire - one can make the packets up in advance, then rotate them through the irons.
- 8 Sep 2016, 15:08That fire-roasted sweet bannock sounds amazing. Is this a thing we could try at KG?
- 27 Apr 2016, 03:07I don't know about you, but this is all part of my general scheme to be someone my teenaged self would have thought was cool. Or maybe become Batman. Either is good.
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Rant on: literary critizism 101, of course the situation and characters aren't prefect, if they were perfect there would be no character development, friction or oh yeah, plot and entertainment. Remember plot and entertainment?
All fiction (and most history) is about only two things. Only two. What we want and what we fear (and just you try to get sex and violence out of that mix). Technically you can have a work of fiction about only one of those two (but I have never seen one) but frankly they would be boring as hell. Interestingly enough it seems possible to talk about what is desireable without impling what is feared but I can't think of even splatter horrors or Polish dystopias where discussion of what is feared doesn't imply what is desired.
So why are people looking for Utopias in fiction? Any sort of Utopia? At best the reaction from the masses will be 'yeah that's nice but the bit over there where the friction is is really more interesting', and at worst you'll find yourself in a befuddled wistfull minority as most people just dismiss it as unbelievable and move their attention to something they can at least dream to hope of being attainable.
Bah, so yeah being angry that a fictional universe isn't perfect is just dumb.
a) characters being sexist = show being inherently sexist
b) characters being sexist = director being inherently sexist
c) actors saying sexist things = director AND show being inherently sexist
made me wanna cry.
And the statement at the end about mixed race relationships being inherently abusive struck me as, um, racist as hell.