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shadowkat1. We Can't Leave Florida.
I have family members shaming my Aunt M for not evacuating. I even told her she should and then started to do a bit of research...and well, found the above article.
2. Reboot of The Greatest American Hero with an Indian-American Woman in the lead -- I'm guessing Indian as from India? This is an issue ...up until roughly the 1990s, Native Americans were referred to as Indians.
Why? Because an Italian explorer named Christopher Columbus decided to prove the world was round by sailing from Spain to the West Indies. Instead he ran smack dab into the Americas. So he called the natives there Indians. The Europeans being entitled self-centered asses, invaded the new world and decided to name the inhabitants there Indians, as opposed to using their actual tribal names, and named themselves Americans. Why Americans? Because another Italian named , Amerigo Vespucci actually figured out this was a new continent and not the West Indies like Columbus thought. He was a bit brighter. So to celebrate these two Italians, and give Italy a ego boost, the new world was called Americas, and the inhabitants Americans. And to celebrate Europe's successful invasion and colonization of this new world, we have Columbus Day, which also celebrates Italian heritage.
Don't remember Greatest American Hero? It's that 1980s show that starred Robert Culp and William Katt. I found the original hilarious in places. Although the best thing in it was Robert Culp.
Actually now that I think about it, an Indian-American playing the role is fitting. Although considering the ahem, American etymological history of the words Indian and American...the two together sound a bit redundant.
3. Alias Grace Premiering this Fall on Netflix...this looks really good. Better actually than "A Handmaid's Tale" which frankly never appealed to me. (ie. less preachy, more complicated.)
4. The Mary Sue is Hiring an Assistand Editor -- anyone (ahem under the age of 35) looking for a job editing, writing, and researching content for a radical liberal feminist blog, with a location in Manhattan? Writing about fannish things, such as role playing games, comics, television, film, etc with a LGBTQ and feminist bent?
It looked appealing to me, but I'm too old this stuff, and I'm about to hit my ten-year anniversary at the Railroad, which is a tad more financially secure and a lot more stable. This is young gal's gig. (Something one worries about past middle age. If I was 25, I'd do it in a heartbeat. But I'm a wee bit past that..and find myself bewildered and rolling my eyes at the fact that there is actually job like this that actually pays money, and where was this over twenty years ago, when I'd have applied for it?... LOL!)
5. Flirting with television shows...
* Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix)
* Black Sails, White Princess, Outlander (try again), American Gods, on Starz as a trial
* Fortitude - Netflix
* Expanse
* Broadchurch
Or just working on my book...half my mind is on the damn hurricane, and worried about other personal stuff.
I have family members shaming my Aunt M for not evacuating. I even told her she should and then started to do a bit of research...and well, found the above article.
2. Reboot of The Greatest American Hero with an Indian-American Woman in the lead -- I'm guessing Indian as from India? This is an issue ...up until roughly the 1990s, Native Americans were referred to as Indians.
Why? Because an Italian explorer named Christopher Columbus decided to prove the world was round by sailing from Spain to the West Indies. Instead he ran smack dab into the Americas. So he called the natives there Indians. The Europeans being entitled self-centered asses, invaded the new world and decided to name the inhabitants there Indians, as opposed to using their actual tribal names, and named themselves Americans. Why Americans? Because another Italian named , Amerigo Vespucci actually figured out this was a new continent and not the West Indies like Columbus thought. He was a bit brighter. So to celebrate these two Italians, and give Italy a ego boost, the new world was called Americas, and the inhabitants Americans. And to celebrate Europe's successful invasion and colonization of this new world, we have Columbus Day, which also celebrates Italian heritage.
Don't remember Greatest American Hero? It's that 1980s show that starred Robert Culp and William Katt. I found the original hilarious in places. Although the best thing in it was Robert Culp.
Actually now that I think about it, an Indian-American playing the role is fitting. Although considering the ahem, American etymological history of the words Indian and American...the two together sound a bit redundant.
3. Alias Grace Premiering this Fall on Netflix...this looks really good. Better actually than "A Handmaid's Tale" which frankly never appealed to me. (ie. less preachy, more complicated.)
4. The Mary Sue is Hiring an Assistand Editor -- anyone (ahem under the age of 35) looking for a job editing, writing, and researching content for a radical liberal feminist blog, with a location in Manhattan? Writing about fannish things, such as role playing games, comics, television, film, etc with a LGBTQ and feminist bent?
It looked appealing to me, but I'm too old this stuff, and I'm about to hit my ten-year anniversary at the Railroad, which is a tad more financially secure and a lot more stable. This is young gal's gig. (Something one worries about past middle age. If I was 25, I'd do it in a heartbeat. But I'm a wee bit past that..and find myself bewildered and rolling my eyes at the fact that there is actually job like this that actually pays money, and where was this over twenty years ago, when I'd have applied for it?... LOL!)
5. Flirting with television shows...
* Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix)
* Black Sails, White Princess, Outlander (try again), American Gods, on Starz as a trial
* Fortitude - Netflix
* Expanse
* Broadchurch
Or just working on my book...half my mind is on the damn hurricane, and worried about other personal stuff.
In 1492....
Date: 2017-09-10 02:45 am (UTC)Considering the current controversy about statuary, it was very timely.
(The segment is the first part of a Magic Schoolbus parody, "Adam Ruins Everything You Learned At School.")
Re: In 1492....
Date: 2017-09-10 02:53 am (UTC)That is SO true. I think I only won one, and it was on a discussion thread at a meetup group, and we got busted for doing it in the thread and not coming to the meetup. The thread was supposed to be discussing coming to the meetup.)
It is timely, since our current erstwhile and esteemed Governor, refuses to change Columbus Day to Indigenuous People Day, because it celebrates Italian heritage, aka his heritage.
Re: In 1492....
Date: 2017-09-10 03:22 am (UTC)Good thoughts to you and your family. Watching the weather forecast now, and crossing my fingers.....
Believe it or not, I'm walking on air...
Date: 2017-09-10 03:34 am (UTC)It kind of reminded me of the 1950s Superman series, when George Reeves battled gangsters and small-time threats completely unworthy of a superhero. Did GAH have a limited budget? Yeah, but imaginative writing could've worked around that....
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Date: 2017-09-10 05:15 am (UTC)Re: In 1492....
Date: 2017-09-10 12:08 pm (UTC)But aren't in mandatory evacuation areas...thankfully. (ie they aren't near the shore and more inland.)
Re: Believe it or not, I'm walking on air...
Date: 2017-09-10 12:11 pm (UTC)Buffy's special effects and Angel's for the budget it had were rather impressive, so impressive that George Lucas, a fan, asked to visit the set of Angel to see how they were doing it with such a low budget.
So you can work around it and do stuff, but it requires some imagination and ingenuity. I think Greatest American Hero had a great idea...but didn't figure out to expand on it.
It appeared to be a light satire. Explains why it didn't last long.
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Date: 2017-09-10 12:17 pm (UTC)And editing -- well, that would be an issue for me, because I rewrite instead of edit. (Hence the reason, I am not an editor and a writer.) I also edit as I write, then edit right after.
Finding interesting things on the internet isn't hard -- if you know how to do quick research. Although the problem is finding stuff interesting to other people. And checking primary sources.
Plus, you could probably do a lot of it from home or anywhere.
And, as far as I can tell they don't have that many people submitting articles.
I know a lot of bloggers on the net, such as abigail_nussbaum of the Wrong Questions, who edits and writes for an fanzine in her spare time. And met a lot of people who edit and write for sci-fi zines.
Re: Believe it or not, I'm walking on air...
Date: 2017-09-10 02:23 pm (UTC)I don't know if the new GAH will be any more ambitious than the old one. It's going to be a half-hour sitcom. But then again, The Tick is a superhero sitcom, too; it all depends on what the writers bring to it.
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Date: 2017-09-10 03:11 pm (UTC)I need to give Outlander a try too, it's been on my list since forever!
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Date: 2017-09-10 07:58 pm (UTC)I'm not looking for a job--far from it--I am happily retired. I'm trying to look at this from the perspective of a young writer. That list of duties sounds like a sixty hour week to me, at minimum. Maybe more like eighty, plus they specified that they wanted someone to commute into their offices in midtown Manhattan. I'm pretty sure assistant editors aren't paid enough to live in Manhattan proper, which would add another couple of hours to each work day. And perhaps that's the norm in this field and this city but looking at it from an outsider's perspective, it sounds pretty exploitative to me.
No doubt there will be hundreds, if not thousands, of applicants.
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Date: 2017-09-10 09:08 pm (UTC)Also it's a good stepping stone. And like minded people. Plus perks, like tickets to shows, etc. And it may pay more than we think. Average blogging job or social media job can make upwards of $1,000 a week. Scary, I know. But there it is.
(Read it somewhere.)
And we don't know the hours. But my guess is 10-7. Lots of work from home.
There's worse jobs for 20 somethings, and it's a job in journalistic writing -- hard to come by. I remember at the age of 35 interviewing for an ad company, in which I'd blog and write pop fashion copy. I didn't get it, because I can't write that stuff. Not how my brain works. This would actually be easier.
I'd never interview for that sort of job now. Current one is better and higher paying. Not sure I'd have done it back then either...you have to be really into gaming. And I'm really not into gaming.
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Date: 2017-09-10 09:10 pm (UTC)Thanks! I think she'll be okay. It's made a second landfall as a CAT 3, if may go down to a CAT2, and she'll be okay.
Re: Believe it or not, I'm walking on air...
Date: 2017-09-10 09:11 pm (UTC)Haven't seen the recent Tick. I loved the cartoon and comic. But the first live action rendition did nothing for me. So not sure about this version...
The Greatest American Hero(ine)
Date: 2017-09-10 09:41 pm (UTC)But "Vanity, Says the Preacher" was insanely ambitious, dropping Bill and Ralph in the middle of a Latin American revolution, with B-plots about Bill's secret past and a possible love child, and a meta C-plot with Ralph as the star of a popular comic book and how legends can inspire real-life change. Did it all work? No. But you can't fault Culp for lack of effort.
I dimly recall the last episode of the series ("The Greatest American Heroine"), a soft reboot with Ralph passing on the suit (and Bill) to a young woman who's as unsure how to use it as he was. I remember William Katt, Connie Selleca and Culp saying goodbye in the desert where it all started..
...and I think I've got something in my eye...
Re: The Greatest American Hero(ine)
Date: 2017-09-10 10:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-11 09:22 pm (UTC)I would, but I'm not in Manhattan. Also I've kinda dedicated the whole of my self-taught writing life to learning how not to poison my work with hateful ideological bias.
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Date: 2017-09-11 09:50 pm (UTC)I don't know if I'd categorize The Mary Sue as hateful exactly...definitely opinionated, though. And admittedly they grate on my nerves occasionally. It feels more niave and somewhat narrow though than hateful.ETA: Eh, I changed my mind after just reading their rant about Fifty Shades Darker...definitely a hateful ideological bias going on there. You have a point. They go way over the top at times and seem to want to censor anything that offends them to the point that they come across as self-righteous and a wee bit...hypocritical. Which has admittedly been grateing on my nerves, and is immature and somewhat hypocritical. I mean seriously, if you want rights, you have to put up with stuff that offends you.
So maybe not a dream job after all.
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Date: 2017-09-11 10:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-11 11:21 pm (UTC)Are there people who are a bit extreme about it? Yes. But that's true about the other side as well. And is a reaction against the other side. The other side is actually worse, feminists don't kill. Misogynists do. The opposite of feminist is misogynist.
Like it or not, we live in a society that is deeply misogynistic and sexist.
That's not to say, men shouldn't have their rights defended, just not at the expense of others. I've sat through one too many rape cases, where the poor little white dude walked free. And seen one too many domestic violence situations. I used to work with orders of protection, called that in Missouri because women are still considered the property of the husbands on the law books.
So, you had to be careful how you worded the protection notice. And volunteered at women's shelters in Kansas City.
Meanwhile, in my working life, I've watched men run roughshod over women, myself included. Demean, harrass, and give better work to men.
Girl is used to demean us. And to add insult to injury, our country elected a man who sexualized his daughter, gropes women, and has had over 100 sexual assaults filed against him.
This behavior is hurtful to both men and women.
Feminism isn't an ideological bias or poison. Misogyny and patriarchy is.
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Date: 2017-09-12 12:43 am (UTC)On generalizing: when a person adheres to a religious or political ideology, identifying with it to the point of calling themselves an "ist" of that kind, they are choosing to generalize themselves. In order to not be generalized, reject ideological adherence.
All sorts of people kill, especially hateful people. Misogynists and misandrists kill. The opposite of 'feminist' is not 'misogynist' any more than the opposite of 'Christian' is 'sinner.' Feminism is an ideology. The opposite of feminist is anti-feminist. I am anti-feminist because I find feminism to promote sexist beliefs, which are mostly misandric (men are violent aggressors) and sometimes misogynistic (women are weak victims). I reject feminism because I reject misandry and misogyny.
Your phrasing "poor little white dude" has a distinctly hateful racist and sexist flavor. In just societies, the accused is innocent until proven guilty. What evidence of guilt did you posess in these cases that was not acknowledged by the courts? Note: gender and skin color don't count as evidence of guilt.
Be careful not to generalize the social forces that you've gleaned from your personal anecdotes onto the rape and domestic violence cases of unrelated individuals. Unlike feminists and other ideologues, these people have not chosen to generalize themselves.
Can you provide a source to substantiate your claim that women are considered property of their husbands in Missouri? My google-fu failed on that one. But in any case, if a protection notice is a legal document, I expect it should be worded carefully.
How many women's shelters and how many men's shelters are there in Kansas City, and how are they funded? I ask because in Canada, publicly funded women's shelters are everywhere, while men's shelters are practically non-existent, and the few that do exist must get their funding from private donors, and all of this seems to be a widespread feminist-driven trend.
It seems to me you've argued for women's rights activism here, rather than feminsim. I support both women's rights and men's rights.
Some individual men demean, harass and discriminate against women. Some individual women demean, harass and discriminate against men. The difference is that only one sex has the support of an institutionally fundeded and accepted ideology to help them do so. Regarding better work: you haven't mentioned whether those individual men were more dedicated and/or capable than those individual women. Further, different work is better for different people, so when you say "better work," I don't know whether you're taking men's and women's personal preferences into account.
Like all words, "girl" can be used in a multitude of ways. It is not inherently degrading.
Who was the non-corrupt alternative to Trump?
Feminism certainly is ideological bias. Misandry and misogyny both exist. 'The patriarchy' as commonly described by feminists does not exist.
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Date: 2017-09-12 06:57 pm (UTC)