Archive for January, 2009
Dear Lawrence Kaplow, Having all of your female characters engage in distinctly stereotypical feminine behavior in one episode does not good television make. I know that was you and not David Shore, ’cause I’m looking at the list of episodes you’ve written, and there really does seem to be a common theme in the last […]
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Tags: i like to watch, sex and everything after, what's on telly, women on screen
Of My Own Device
Because I really just don’t know where to start with the massive clusterfuck that is this year’s cultural appropriation SFF community ‘discussion’…rydra_wong on LJ’s been making linkdumps. Basically, I don’t know at this point if I have anything useful to add that hasn’t been said by people who are better at it than me and […]
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Tags: grinding my axe, race is a four letter word, second class fan citizens
rhyme and reason
A few bits and pieces that haven’t become their own posts. A word on the Eleventh Doctor: Much as I remain ambivalent about Matt Smith, I am not best pleased by the fact that we have a young not-particularly-masculine white guy in the role, round three. I expected a little more diversity from Moffat; I’m not […]
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Tags: girls on film, second class fan citizens, what's on telly
Byte Your Tongue
My apologies for not blogging lately–the holiday season and the end of the year, between work and family and maintaining some sort of sanity, sort of chewed up my initiative to write. That, and the fact that Mr Bene bought me a Nintendo DS for Christmas, which also consumed a lot of time and brainpower. […]
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Tags: jeux sans frontieres, media, second class fan citizens
