Posts by Emma Hart
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probably got here accidentally while searching for porn. I blame Emma Hart.
Oh, admit it, that's why I'm here.
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and the sounds were more thunk-clunk than whir-swish in same video
That's a particularly high-pitched one, there are others that sound more like a brick in a tumble dryer.
They do get it right sometimes :).
Mosttimes. The neurologist said I'd had 'the best possible outcome', and long-term I have - the complications with my recovery were entirely temporary, though I think I scared some close personal friends. Everyone I've had to deal with has been lovely, with the exception of the 'you are ill so you must be an infant' nurse at Southern Cross.
And the odd problems I've been having with my visual-spacial sense (I can no longer read a map without turning it round, I have to concentrate to work out which side of the car is the passenger side) appear to be entirely unrelated to my surgery. It's possible I'm just turning into a girl. Or straightening. I don't want to even contemplate that.
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You should be OK with your new ink.
Yeah, I figure it's the old ferrous inks they're worried about. And not terribly worried, it appears, because I always tick the box, and nobody ever checks.
One trick I used for a while was to look directly above into the small mirror, and read the seconds that are counting down. They're reflected off the front of the MRI machine, onto the window opposite, and onto the mirror. (At least that's how I think it works). The numbers are reversed so you have to watch out for 5s and 2s.
Ah, interesting. I'm not allowed my glasses, so I can't see a thing. Which I think actually helps with the claustrophobia of the whole thing. But I do find it easier when the radiographers tell me how long each test is. Two minutes of one kind is much worse than five minutes of another, so it's good to know how much longer I have to put up with it.
My tumour's been taken out and grown back, but the only symptoms I've ever had from it are these damned scans, blood tests and appointments!
Oh dude, that sucks. But yes, the tumor itself, while blinding me, didn't actually make me feel sick. The surgery and recovery was awful.
Isabel said on Twitter that the check-ups take you from feeling well to feeling "sick" again - as a classification rather than a state of health, and I think that might be part of why I find the whole thing so annoying. I'd just like to get on with, well, pretending it never happened, I guess.
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Oo, movie trailers!
RED. I was seconds away from organising a group booking for this yesterday, and it opens in October. How, HOW has it taken so long to give Helen Mirren a BFG?
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(Too easy, unsporting even)
Too easy? We haven't even touched the 'shield walls are an Anglo-Saxon thing Italians wouldn't understand' thing. I have to assume this is some kind of performance art.
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I would include Emma in this list, except that she rejects the label, and applying a label to someone who has rejected that label is just rude.
To be clear, to Deborah and in general, I have little objection to having the label applied to me, and no objection at all to having something I have said or done being called feminist. Mostly, it's not one I choose because I don't want to find myself spending my time defending my right to the label rather than my position. That's the same reason Trinity and Renegade Evolution don't use it, actually, now that I think about it, and we're all kinky and all bisexual.
I'm sure plenty of people want to look at Joss's cannon, but he's married. Bomp-bomp!
(I can't believe it took over four hours for someone to make a penis joke about that typo. Are we slipping?)
I have repressed and deleted so many smutty comments on this thread. Just goes to show what repression does in the end.
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I'm sorry Emma, but just because we really, really like it doesn't make it "not sexist".
Alright, alright, I'll bite. Bear in mind I like Bond movies and Raymond Chandler, so I don't need to believe the things I like aren't sexist just 'cause.
Decisions? They get made by Mr Cap'n, sir. Or by the preacher. Or by Simon. Or by Jayne (I didn't say *good* decisions). The wimminfolk in Firefly aren't the leaders or deciders, the power dynamic just doesn't work that way.
Yeah, I mean, remember that time Mal and Wash got taken prisoner, and Zoe decided she was going to make all the decisions? And everyone thought that was such a bad idea that Simon shot her full of drugs, she face-planted in the deck and then Jayne took over, made the decisions and planned the ransom and rescue?
Oh no wait. I have that backwards. In Mal's absense, his clear second, right-hand man and ex brother in arms took over - Zoe.
Actually, that entire episode - War Stories - can be seen as gender inversion. Two male characters get taken prisoner. They spend that entire time talking about the woman they're "competing' for, while that woman plans and sets in motion their rescue.
You can do that with Wash and Zoe's entire relationship if you want. She's stronger than him in every way, and less emotional. He's the one who gets anxious, jealous, and cannot shut up. When they're interrogated by the Alliance, she refuses to talk about Wash, but Wash, again, won't shut up.
Or by the preacher.
When?
Or by Jayne (I didn't say *good* decisions)
Jayne certainly gives Mal 'chain of command' headaches, but the only time I remember him making an actual decision, it's to betray River and Simon. It's a decision he takes for himself, not the crew.
Meanwhile, Inara operates outside the chain of command the entire time.
the follower who does whatever mr-cap'n-tightpants says
You're kidding me, right? That's your actual entire reading of Zoe's character?
the whore
And now you're just baiting me. Inana is the character with the highest social standing by a mile. She has enormous social power and we see her wield it. The only person who shows her disrespect is Mal, who spends almost his entire interaction with her pulling her pigtails because he's in love with her. And Mal's mistreatment of Inara makes him look like a dick, not her. (Analysing Inara's character, like Book's, is a little problematic because there was obviously stuff about their previous lives that we didn't know, back-story mysteries that never came out.)
The whole 'in order to not be sexist the person in charge must be a woman' thing leads to, well, Voyager. And it might just be me, but if you stood Janeway and Zoe next to each other and said, "Which is the strongest female character?", I think it's Zoe, her loyalty to Mal notwithstanding. She's not loyal to him because he's male.
If you look at Joss's cannon, I think it's clear that he's perfectly capable of writing a character like Mal that's female. (Thought as a flaw I will say, not capable of making Mal female and leaving Inara as the love interest.) I strongly suspect the character of Mal was at least partly shaped by being written for Nathan Fillion, as Jayne was written to Find a Use for Adam Baldwin. There's nothing in the Firefly universe that says a woman can't be a soldier, can't make plans, can't be a wise-cracking devious bastard (Saffron).
You're right about Kaylee's "plot arc", but Kaylee has other functions. Joss calls her the moral heart of Firefly: if Kaylee assesses a person or a situation, she's right. She's also resistant to the stereotype of the Woman in a Man's Job, in that she's not in the least butch. She loves engines and dresses, and I think that's important, especially when you can contrast her with a character like Zoe.
River, though she's one of Joss's super-heroine characters, does spend an awful lot of time being helpless, being rescued. But - while River is a pretty extreme example of a flaw - I honestly don't think a Feminist Heroine has to be flawless and powerful all the time. And if she does I don't want to see it because, my gods, boring.
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Well, I've got to take my share of that spank, and it's an excellent general principle but there's some crap so vile that if you really can't take my word for it Google is your friend.
The spanking was mostly for me, though [third time today I have edited a comment for just being too sleazy]
And yeah, I was pretty much torn between "Don't read this, Danielle, it's bad for your head" and "Please read this Danielle, because I want to see your reaction".
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For the benefit of those of us who hear about a crazy and terrible blog post and then just to go and find it for ourselves...
Thanks Russell. That needed doing, because it's rude to talk about how bad something is without letting people decide for themselves, but I really couldn't bring myself to do it. When I first read it, I was going to fisk it, because some of her reasoning is so transparently bad and I wanted to make a comment about how much the cherry-picker must have cost her, but I had a rage-spike every time I tried.
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Ah, yes, and apparently nothing Kai Cole says about her own life and marriage is to be believed.
Well, she would say that, wouldn't she? She's either lying to protect herself or she has False Consciousness and needs to Examine a bit more.