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A fantastic piece on race and role models. Takes a starting point and then works in the realisations that lead to a completely different view. Very nicely done.
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It's a shame you can't "win" MMORPGs...
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Oooh, spooky
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When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won't break before new systems are in place. They are demanding to be told that ancient social bargains aren't in peril, that core institutions will be spared, that new methods of spreading information will improve previous practice rather than upending it. They are demanding to be lied to.
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It wasn't like this in the old days - back then people appreciated how much smarter their elders were. You damn kids get off my lawn!
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What should go on a Top Ten "In retrospect, what the hell were we thinking" list of once-popular SF?
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What should go on a Top Ten "In retrospect, what the hell were we thinking" list of once-popular comics?
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If you find this funny then you have almost certainly read too many novels that you shouldn't have done
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I challenge you to complete a line!
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It just goes to show - you can't be too careful
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An opinion piece constructed out of so much entitlement and oblivious patriarchy that I'm ashamed to come from the same country.
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Date: 2009-03-16 04:28 pm (UTC)22:39. i love productive days off.
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Date: 2009-03-16 08:30 pm (UTC)(Like you, I really don't want to get into the rights and wrongs of that or any other part of RaceFail).
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Date: 2009-03-16 08:15 pm (UTC)I'm boggled to read that. On the one hand, if he wants to live with a successful, ambitious sexually confident woman, it's good to recognise how he feels and comes to terms with it -- it's a good change from men complaining that "I wanted a housewife and all I got was this human being", and a good change to recognise what you want rather than feeling guilty for admitting it.
On the other hand, every single line is chock-full of incredibly insulting assumptions and generalisations. I sympathise with someone with a difficult life regardless of the reasons for it. But to pick an example at random, his main complaint sounds to me like "My partner wanted a child and I didn't, and she refused to put my wants above hers, so I lied and said I did want children after all, and when I got them, it turned out that that was a mistake. Why couldn't she have lied about what she wanted instead, so her life would suck instead of mine?
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Date: 2009-03-16 08:19 pm (UTC)It just can't be real. It must be a spoof. I don't believe it ...
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Date: 2009-03-16 09:06 pm (UTC)An opinion piece constructed out of so much entitlement and oblivious patriarchy that I'm ashamed to come from the same country.
I'm hoping that said article is a joke, but sadly it really doesn't seem that way. He needs to wise the fuck up, accept responsibility for messing up Frances's life rather than blaming her for pushing him away (motherhood is time consuming enough, but moreso when the father clearly isn't pulling his weight, as Mr. Jones intimates there, so it's no wonder that it took over her life). But most of all, he needs to realise that he is nothing more than a misogynist who clearly sees women as nothing more than sex objects. Fucking scumbag. And I know plenty of men here in Belfast who clearly came from the same school of thought as Jones who make me equally ashamed that such opinions still exist in society today.
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Date: 2009-03-16 09:18 pm (UTC)Funny, that.
Who needs a hero?
Date: 2009-03-17 07:45 am (UTC)Come to think of it, I don't much have real-world heroes either. People I admire and respect for their skills and achievments, yes - but that I have a (one-way) emotional connection to, that inspire me out of shitty situations, that I want to *emulate*??? nah....
Yet, I was a bullied weirdo geek as a kid just like many of the folks who do.
re: Heroes
Date: 2009-03-19 03:05 am (UTC)Doctor Who as black - why not? Why couldn't a black or brown or green or blue skinned Doctor Who be just as charming and witty and quirky as the previous light-skinned ones? He's only been portrayed as white so far, because of the people in charge of the show, not because it is a necessary trait of the character. Doctor Who as non-British - well, why not? He's a Time-lord, not a Briton.
As for casting characters with a different gender or sex than their originals... the idea doesn't bother me, and I think in many cases it could be very interesting. What if Luke and Leia's characters had been switched? What if Leia was the whiny, dreamy one growing up on the farm, and Luke was the "prince"? It would be quite interesting.
But recasting male characters as female or vice-versa, seems like it would change the character more than a simple change of skin color or accent would. It would be interesting to see the same character portrayed with the same traits, by a person of a different sex, but it's hard to envision, because generally female characters are portrayed differently than male ones.
Or even given the same traits, a male person with those traits is perceived differently than a female one.
There is a "coolness" aspect to simply having a strong kick-ass female character, that isn't necessarily there with a correspondingly strong kick-ass male character. Likewise, there is a "coolness" aspect to simply having a non-violent, caring male character, that isn't necessarily there with a non-violent caring female character.