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shadowkatPosts that I found interesting...
1. Missy Proves Doctor Who can handle a Woman as the Doctor Personally, I thought River Song could.
I'm ambivalent. It's a tv show. Although, I'd admittedly be more interested in watching the series if there was a female doctor. But that's only because I think they've run out of new ideas for a male doctor.
Weirdly, the US is ahead of the Brits in how it depicts women on television shows and movies from a power/role model perspective (not in a let's cast pretty model/actor types over frumpy older theater actors - although I have a feeling British Television would do this if they could), but the Brits are ahead in allowing a woman to have an actual role in power - as Queen or Prime Minister. [ ie. the US has no problem casting a female Captain of the USS Enterprize, or a female version of Star Buck or a female Jedi, or a female super-spy or a female version of name the superhero. We do it a lot. I think due to the vast quantity of television shows, movies and theater at the US's disposal, we really don't care that much. While the Brits appear to, which is rather perplexing if you are an American. OTOH, the US elected a male chauvinist pig over a qualified and well-established female politician for President, while the Brit's elected a woman Prime Minister, more than once and has a history of powerful Queens. Probably because of the Queens.)
So, I don't really think it matters all that much from a cultural perspective which gender plays Doctor Who. Also, it may be a big deal to the Brits, but it isn't to most Americans. Again, see Starbuck and Riley.
2. Wonder Woman Highest Grossing DCEU Movie in US
DCEU - means DC Universe.
Hardly surprising considering how horrible the previous three DC movies were. I saw two of them, it was like watching a video game. Actually that's been my problem with a lot of superhero films...I feel like I'm watching a video game. The last two Avengers films felt that way. I much preferred Captain America - Civil War.
3. Now I want to see the new Spiderman movie Sigh. -- also the kid playing Spiderman appears to be a Brit? I do however like Michel Keaton being cast as the Vulture, and how they are rendering the villain as sort of a poor man's Tony Stark, who much like Stark is salvaging weapons to make the world better.
4. Six Girls Denied Travel Visas for an international robotics competition
A team of six girls from Afghanistan has been denied travel visas to the United States, where they were hoping to compete in an international robotics competition with other STEM kids from around the world. The girls traveled twice to the U.S. embassy in Kabul, which is more than 500 miles from their hometown of Herat, to interview for their 7-day visas, and they were denied both times without explanation.
The evil things we do in the name of fear and security.
5. PG Films From Yesteryear , Wow a Lot of PG Films Were Really Screwed up
I'm guessing whomever made this video hasn't been watching television in the past few years? Because seriously, the stuff on tv right now is worse than what is shown in those films.
6. The Book Will Change Your Life - Victor Hugos Les Miserables
Now, I feel this overwhelming desire to read Les Miserables. It was short lived. I'm going to read the third volume in the Captive Prince trilogy entitled "King's Rising" instead. (This is a m/m fantasy series...in which the first few chapters had once been posted online in livejournal, prior to being published.)
7. The daily dot...headline... that made me chuckle aloud... All evidence to the guantry, "There is no way this guy was masturbating when a volcano killed him." Hehehhehe.
8.
House Bill Puts Together a Commission to Determine if Trump is Fit for Office
Well about bloody time. Although the fact that they require a commission to determine it is rather perplexing. All they need to do is read his twitter account and interactions with, well, just about everyone.
9. I give up. I was scrolling through The Mary Sue and Daily Dot looking for a great quote that I found on why virginity doesn't exist and can't be proven. But alas cannot find it. It was in association with the whole virginity auction bit that apparently was a big plot point in Big Little Lies. The gist? Most women break their hymen riding bikes, playing soccer, or riding horses. Also it rules out other types of sex that have nothing to do with vaginal penetration. So, you really can't prove someone is a virgin. It's impossible and also meaningless.
But something that is deeply ingrained in our culture, and with little to no positive value. It's been used to demean and shame women (and to a degree men) by both genders, and across the divide. You'd think we would evolve to a point in which we did not use this to demean one another, but alas no.
I find this interesting because as you know I've been reading historical and contemporary romance novels, and in all of them, virginity comes up as a plot point or a subject for discussion. I've also seen off and on -- online --- it being used to shame people in fandoms. "What are you, a Virgin?" as if that's a crime or something. Or "you slut!" Which seems silly in this day and age.
I honestly don't care what people do in the privacy of their homes, as long as no one is being hurt and it is all consensual.
10. PS: The Defender's Trailer looks fantastic. Danny and Powerman buddy team, and Jessica Jones and Daredevil buddy team. I adore Jessica Jones. She's my favorite. We need a S2 JJ and a S3 Daredevil.
I also want a spin-off with Collen Wing, Clair, Electra, and Misty.
1. Missy Proves Doctor Who can handle a Woman as the Doctor Personally, I thought River Song could.
I'm ambivalent. It's a tv show. Although, I'd admittedly be more interested in watching the series if there was a female doctor. But that's only because I think they've run out of new ideas for a male doctor.
Weirdly, the US is ahead of the Brits in how it depicts women on television shows and movies from a power/role model perspective (not in a let's cast pretty model/actor types over frumpy older theater actors - although I have a feeling British Television would do this if they could), but the Brits are ahead in allowing a woman to have an actual role in power - as Queen or Prime Minister. [ ie. the US has no problem casting a female Captain of the USS Enterprize, or a female version of Star Buck or a female Jedi, or a female super-spy or a female version of name the superhero. We do it a lot. I think due to the vast quantity of television shows, movies and theater at the US's disposal, we really don't care that much. While the Brits appear to, which is rather perplexing if you are an American. OTOH, the US elected a male chauvinist pig over a qualified and well-established female politician for President, while the Brit's elected a woman Prime Minister, more than once and has a history of powerful Queens. Probably because of the Queens.)
So, I don't really think it matters all that much from a cultural perspective which gender plays Doctor Who. Also, it may be a big deal to the Brits, but it isn't to most Americans. Again, see Starbuck and Riley.
2. Wonder Woman Highest Grossing DCEU Movie in US
DCEU - means DC Universe.
Hardly surprising considering how horrible the previous three DC movies were. I saw two of them, it was like watching a video game. Actually that's been my problem with a lot of superhero films...I feel like I'm watching a video game. The last two Avengers films felt that way. I much preferred Captain America - Civil War.
3. Now I want to see the new Spiderman movie Sigh. -- also the kid playing Spiderman appears to be a Brit? I do however like Michel Keaton being cast as the Vulture, and how they are rendering the villain as sort of a poor man's Tony Stark, who much like Stark is salvaging weapons to make the world better.
4. Six Girls Denied Travel Visas for an international robotics competition
A team of six girls from Afghanistan has been denied travel visas to the United States, where they were hoping to compete in an international robotics competition with other STEM kids from around the world. The girls traveled twice to the U.S. embassy in Kabul, which is more than 500 miles from their hometown of Herat, to interview for their 7-day visas, and they were denied both times without explanation.
The evil things we do in the name of fear and security.
5. PG Films From Yesteryear , Wow a Lot of PG Films Were Really Screwed up
I'm guessing whomever made this video hasn't been watching television in the past few years? Because seriously, the stuff on tv right now is worse than what is shown in those films.
6. The Book Will Change Your Life - Victor Hugos Les Miserables
Now, I feel this overwhelming desire to read Les Miserables. It was short lived. I'm going to read the third volume in the Captive Prince trilogy entitled "King's Rising" instead. (This is a m/m fantasy series...in which the first few chapters had once been posted online in livejournal, prior to being published.)
7. The daily dot...headline... that made me chuckle aloud... All evidence to the guantry, "There is no way this guy was masturbating when a volcano killed him." Hehehhehe.
8.
House Bill Puts Together a Commission to Determine if Trump is Fit for Office
Well about bloody time. Although the fact that they require a commission to determine it is rather perplexing. All they need to do is read his twitter account and interactions with, well, just about everyone.
9. I give up. I was scrolling through The Mary Sue and Daily Dot looking for a great quote that I found on why virginity doesn't exist and can't be proven. But alas cannot find it. It was in association with the whole virginity auction bit that apparently was a big plot point in Big Little Lies. The gist? Most women break their hymen riding bikes, playing soccer, or riding horses. Also it rules out other types of sex that have nothing to do with vaginal penetration. So, you really can't prove someone is a virgin. It's impossible and also meaningless.
But something that is deeply ingrained in our culture, and with little to no positive value. It's been used to demean and shame women (and to a degree men) by both genders, and across the divide. You'd think we would evolve to a point in which we did not use this to demean one another, but alas no.
I find this interesting because as you know I've been reading historical and contemporary romance novels, and in all of them, virginity comes up as a plot point or a subject for discussion. I've also seen off and on -- online --- it being used to shame people in fandoms. "What are you, a Virgin?" as if that's a crime or something. Or "you slut!" Which seems silly in this day and age.
I honestly don't care what people do in the privacy of their homes, as long as no one is being hurt and it is all consensual.
10. PS: The Defender's Trailer looks fantastic. Danny and Powerman buddy team, and Jessica Jones and Daredevil buddy team. I adore Jessica Jones. She's my favorite. We need a S2 JJ and a S3 Daredevil.
I also want a spin-off with Collen Wing, Clair, Electra, and Misty.
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Date: 2017-07-04 06:46 am (UTC)I suspect we have had two female PMs more because of the specific way the Tory Party elects its leaders than any tolerance on the part of the electorate at large. It is noticeable that the Labour Party, which elects its leaders with a much broader electoral college, has failed to even get close to a female leader. And I am pretty sure that sexism played a sizeable part in why Theresa May did worse than expected in the recent election. She also has to face accusations like 'not emotional enough' and 'doesn't have children' that I am sure no male politician would face.
I agree, our casting people probably would go for more attractive older females if we had any :D
I think one of the main reasons people want an attractive young male lead in most dramas is because the overwhelming majority of the audience is heterosexual female. The only exception to this rule is crime drama, which are reasonably popular with men - and they do have a high proportion of female leadership roles and have done so for years.
Doctor Who is of course different again since it is pitched at children, and I have no idea what the gender balance of the audience is. And it is hard to judge what the public mood is since the loudest grasshoppers in the field are adult long-term fans who have a very different set of priorities to the majority cudding cattle. I still think it will be risky, though I am now convinced they are going to do it.
I agree. I think the most important thing is not the gender but if the new writers can refresh the show. Hopefully they will move away from the long-running, incomprehensible themes of the Moffatt era. I did read somewhere that Chibnell is considering more of a season long story rather than new stories each week. I think that would be more of an important change and hopefully one for the better. I also think they need to find a way to refresh the companion idea. And the show needs to be more fun. There hasn't been anything like enough fun lately.
I just hope we never need to capture a unicorn.
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Date: 2017-07-04 02:23 pm (UTC)So basically people solely watch television with their genitals in mind? ;-D
That's what I was thinking last night...
I do and don't. Apparently. Depends.
I just hope we never need to capture a unicorn.
Considering they don't exist, that may be difficult.
Doctor Who is of course different again since it is pitched at children, and I have no idea what the gender balance of the audience is. And it is hard to judge what the public mood is since the loudest grasshoppers in the field are adult long-term fans who have a very different set of priorities to the majority cudding cattle.
Which is hilarious, considering very few children actually watch it and the content isn't appealing to most children. Whomever is writing it or programming for kids, needs to read Harry Potter. And Ronald Dahl.
I did read somewhere that Chibnell is considering more of a season long story rather than new stories each week.
That would work better for me. But not sure about the target audience, who prefers the episodic approach?
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Date: 2017-07-04 04:38 pm (UTC)Well, having heard how heterosexual females talk about good looking young male leads, I'm going to go with 'yes' ;)
It would work better for me too. I think it would also work for the adult audience. British TV audiences have now been well trained by American shows to enjoy lengthy arcs, and indeed there are often complaints that our homegrown shows need more long arcs. I'm not sure how it would work for kids, and they really must get the kids back if the show is to survive. Either that or accept it is no longer for kids and turn it adult - but I doubt I would like that either.
I've just been rewatching a RTD era episode with Tennant. The contrast with the Moffatt stuff is painful. I so want my show back.