Posts by Lucy Stewart
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Although similarly, knowing that Charlie Sheen is in fact a real life misogynist on charges for assaulting a woman while drunk makes watching Two and a Half Men just that much more less likely, and his on-screen persona even more creepy.
And yet it has very high ratings. I'm never going to get that.
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not wanting to interrupt, but it's rather amusing to see a pendantic discussion on sci-fi characterisation and the rights and wrongs on various depictions of geekery as related to the real world while also confessing to having no idea about recent Beyonce singles...
I thought I was pretty clear that I care about their characterisation, and the lack of girl geeks, because I *am* like them (only, since we're being obvious, of the girl persuasion). In which case the music thing should be completely unsurprising.
(Although I will quibble your conflation of "Beyonce singles" and "real world". I can talk for hours about many things in the "real world". Current pop music just isn't that high on my catch-up list.)
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I think that was well understood, or at least assumed on my part. My concern was the potential for another descent into a cluster of Sci-Fi anti-matter. And since Kyle is here, if you could position the Death Star, it may come in handy once the Klingon Deniers Association gets wind of it.
Fair enough, your wayward use of the possessive just made me want to be clear on the subject.
If Kyle brings the Death Star, I'll bring the pony.
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I mean that while nobody likes sitting around in an office all day in order to keep food on the table, it generally isn't thought of as being as bad as having sex you don't necessarily want in order to keep food on the table.
I'm going to be middle-class and naive for a moment, but I don't think there are a lot of people in New Zealand whose choices are sex work or actual starvation. Hardship/unpleasantness, yes. Actual starvation...probably not.
Prostitution is a very situational debate; there are situations where it is, basically, rape, and there are situations where it is nothing of the sort, and any argument which tries to argue that all prostitution, everywhere, is rape, is basically arguing that no woman, no matter what her situation, can consent to sex for money. And that, as Emma has repeatedly pointed out, denies women any right to speak for themselves on the matter, which is...not good.
(Also, there is a *huge* difference between sex you don't necessarily want and rape. I've had sex I didn't necessarily want to have at the time, but nevertheless consented to for reasons other than wanting to have sex, and I cannot possibly believe that it was in any way at all the same thing as being raped.)
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Phew! So my distraction from Lucy's "Why Women And Gays Have Ruined Sci-Fi" worked.
I'd just like to take a moment to disassociate myself from any implication that I approve, endorse, condone, or otherwise am willing to be placed in the same room as this work.
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(Yeah: I feel like this show is aimed at 30somethings, not young people.)
There was this moment in the episode where they have a random jam session, and the song they're singing made me WTF because it was old when *I* was in my early teens - ten years ago - which means that it's a generation too old for today's high schoolers to be singing because they like it and know it. OTOH, I am out of touch enough with today's music that half the modern songs I first heard on Glee (cough Single Ladies cough), so.
She's not the neighbour, is she? I saw only one episode of BBT, where she threw a birthday party, and she was the only one in the show that appeared to have half a functioning brain.
Yes and no. She's certainly often depicted as having more real-life skills than the boys, including in areas like putting furniture together, which I thoroughly approve of. My main problem is actually with Lesley-the-Female-Geek, because a) she's the only one, b) she, even more than Leonard, is written inconsistently for plot, and c) Wiki tells me they dropped her as a main character because they couldn't find enough good material for her, which tells me a lot more about the writers than the character.
Basically, the show tends to make the geek/normal divide *also* a male/female divide, by virtue of Penny being the Normal One and the geeks all being guys, and it bugs the hell out of me because it's gender essentialist and wrong and gah. And I know it's only a sitcom, etc, but when it's one of the few shows on TV with characters I really, really identify with, so I reserve the right to complain.
Well, yeah. He's also probably the most realistic character on that show, & it's quite nice to see the stupid sexist side of nerdery get a sound thrashing every now and again.
I read an essay not so long ago which was called something like "Why Women And Gays Have Ruined Sci-Fi" (only the barest of paraphrasings). The thesis was essentially that men like adventure and science and interesting things, and women and gays like to talk about their feeeeeeeelings, and modern sci-fi had too many feeeeeeelings, because of the women and the gays, and not enough manly car chases. And yes, it was entirely serious.
Howard is that guy.
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But Murphy has this weird track record of casting lesbians as evil twisted and bitter, man-hating bitch cheerleaders.
I'm not really familiar with his earlier work, so that's new to me - but weird is definitely the word.
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Well, at least this time Ryan Murphy hired an out dyke to play the bitter and twisted butch villian. It's up to you whether that's progress.
(At least she wasn't a PE teacher, I guess...)
If you want to be extremely generous you could argue it's interesting to see a lead antagonist with a more traditionally male role/lines being a woman, but you probably don't. (I only do part of the time, to be fair.)
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What kills Glee for me, apart from excessive hamminess at times, is the auto-tune over-dub. Can't sing? Don't.
It does kill the mood somewhat when Corey Monteith talks about he's just like Finn and never had any singing training and we're all thinking "Dude. That coudn't be any more painfully obvious."
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Got the first series of Big Bang Theory for Christmas. Great entertainment for these winter days.
We're just into the second season, and while I enjoy it a great deal, it definitely suffers from a few characterisation issues - notably Leonard's inconsistent people skills (+20 whenever the episode demans he play straight man to Sheldon, -20 whenever it doesn't) and the female characters, who are really quite badly written, even for a show where everyone is a stereotype to some degree.
But, at the same time, it is very funny - even if I find myself agreeing with Sheldon's point of view somewhat more than I suspect the writers intended...
I don't know what to think about this scene in Glee last week with the Deaf choir. Is it tokenistic? Are the choir all Deaf or just actors like the kid in the wheelchair? Some are just using their hands and not their faces, which is a major part of sign language communication. If they are a real Deaf choir why do they need to be helped to provide sound? (Probably it's only me that worries about things like this.)
Not just you. Glee does suffer from tokenism quite a lot of the time; the gay guy is extremely femme and fashion-conscious, the Asian girl is quirky, the Jewish family watch Schindler's List...and while there's a degree to which this is all self-satirising, there's a degree to which it's not, and it's worth noticing when they fall into those traps. I'm not sure this was one, but I know very little about the deaf (or Deaf) community, so it's not really my call.