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Feb. 3rd, 2013 09:15 pm1. Finished marathoning the last six Arrow episodes...which as an aside, sort of remind me a great deal of the Batman movies. Particularly the episode with the drug-dealing Count.
That said, I'm liking the series. Greg Berlanti the writer is one of the writers of Dawson's Creek - came up with Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec. (There were two top WB series - Dawson's and Buffy, and those writers have both gone on to do cult tv shows with large fandoms.) I actually like Arrow better than Dawson's, but Dawson's was a teen soap opera...so there's that.
( spoilers )
2. Never understood racism. Sexism makes a bit more sense to me actually, although like racism its ingrained and silly based upon a bunch of generalizations and assumptions that people refuse to question. (Also it affects me more directly, since I'm the minority in question or the group being discriminated against.) ie. Women can't be firemen or cops because they aren't strong enough? Actually there are women out there who are 6 feet tall, and can lift 200 pounds and men out there who can't lift one pound and are 5 feet tall. I remember having a very long involved battle with a woman on a fan discussion board about this back in 2003.
It got derailed, because some nitwit used the term femnazi - which resulted in a fight over the use of that term and how offensive it is and omg, you can't use the term nazi in that...way. Seriously, people? If you get that upset over the use of a word - you need to go find a meditation class or something. (Although I admit the term femnazi is pretty damn offensive.) I felt sorry for the woman I was fighting with - because she didn't use the term, but some nitwit defending her pov did, and it got ascribed to her. When we met in person - she spent the first 20 minutes of our meeting explaining to me how offensive that term was to her (she lived in Isarel for years on a kibbutz and was Jewish), and I had to know she'd never ever use it to define feminists she disagreed with. The poor gal. She'd actually explained that on the board of course or tried to, but people like to twist your words around online to fit their own purposes.
Not sure this has happened to anyone else? But it has to me, numerous times. I've defriended people on lj over it because it makes me bug-shagging crazy. They'll take one statement out of context - from a five paragraph post or response and slaughter me on it. I'll sputter and say, no, no, that's not what I meant at all. I did not say that! You misread me! And we'll argue for about five-six posts about what I meant to say and what I did say..to the point that I want to reach through the computer screen, grab them by their scruffy little neck and shake them. I'm sure people have felt the same way about me at times...but I live in the hope that it hasn't happened all that often? There's nothing more annoying in the world than to be misunderstood or have what you said twisted to mean the opposite or be misrepresented. We read and scan posts so fast...I'm betting we misread 95% of them. Which is kinda of scary if you think about it. I'm also betting that 85% of lj battles are based on misreading people's posts or misunderstandings. (No wonder romance novelists use the misunderstanding as a big plot-point.)
At any rate...About 90% of my debates get derailed with fights over semantics and puns. It's annoying. This happens at work too - if I use the wrong word, my boss is all over me and it becomes about the proper use and meaning of the stupid word and not well whatever I wanted to talk about it. There's nothing, nothing, more annoying than being misunderstood.
At any rate, sorry for the tangent/rant.
I remember in college, a blue-eyed blond, named Suzie, told me a story about racism. ( Read more... )
That said, I'm liking the series. Greg Berlanti the writer is one of the writers of Dawson's Creek - came up with Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec. (There were two top WB series - Dawson's and Buffy, and those writers have both gone on to do cult tv shows with large fandoms.) I actually like Arrow better than Dawson's, but Dawson's was a teen soap opera...so there's that.
( spoilers )
2. Never understood racism. Sexism makes a bit more sense to me actually, although like racism its ingrained and silly based upon a bunch of generalizations and assumptions that people refuse to question. (Also it affects me more directly, since I'm the minority in question or the group being discriminated against.) ie. Women can't be firemen or cops because they aren't strong enough? Actually there are women out there who are 6 feet tall, and can lift 200 pounds and men out there who can't lift one pound and are 5 feet tall. I remember having a very long involved battle with a woman on a fan discussion board about this back in 2003.
It got derailed, because some nitwit used the term femnazi - which resulted in a fight over the use of that term and how offensive it is and omg, you can't use the term nazi in that...way. Seriously, people? If you get that upset over the use of a word - you need to go find a meditation class or something. (Although I admit the term femnazi is pretty damn offensive.) I felt sorry for the woman I was fighting with - because she didn't use the term, but some nitwit defending her pov did, and it got ascribed to her. When we met in person - she spent the first 20 minutes of our meeting explaining to me how offensive that term was to her (she lived in Isarel for years on a kibbutz and was Jewish), and I had to know she'd never ever use it to define feminists she disagreed with. The poor gal. She'd actually explained that on the board of course or tried to, but people like to twist your words around online to fit their own purposes.
Not sure this has happened to anyone else? But it has to me, numerous times. I've defriended people on lj over it because it makes me bug-shagging crazy. They'll take one statement out of context - from a five paragraph post or response and slaughter me on it. I'll sputter and say, no, no, that's not what I meant at all. I did not say that! You misread me! And we'll argue for about five-six posts about what I meant to say and what I did say..to the point that I want to reach through the computer screen, grab them by their scruffy little neck and shake them. I'm sure people have felt the same way about me at times...but I live in the hope that it hasn't happened all that often? There's nothing more annoying in the world than to be misunderstood or have what you said twisted to mean the opposite or be misrepresented. We read and scan posts so fast...I'm betting we misread 95% of them. Which is kinda of scary if you think about it. I'm also betting that 85% of lj battles are based on misreading people's posts or misunderstandings. (No wonder romance novelists use the misunderstanding as a big plot-point.)
At any rate...About 90% of my debates get derailed with fights over semantics and puns. It's annoying. This happens at work too - if I use the wrong word, my boss is all over me and it becomes about the proper use and meaning of the stupid word and not well whatever I wanted to talk about it. There's nothing, nothing, more annoying than being misunderstood.
At any rate, sorry for the tangent/rant.
I remember in college, a blue-eyed blond, named Suzie, told me a story about racism. ( Read more... )
