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Mar. 16th, 2018 08:56 pm1. Black Panther
Weirdly at work and online, the people who picked up on the awesome female characters and the fact that they are distinctive and different from ANY superhero or action film in both the diversity of their roles and the lack of sexual objectification -- are women. The guys offline and on? JUST DON"T GET IT.
Hmm.
I'm wondering if you have to be female to pick up on this sort of thing?
Instead all the guys pick up on the lackluster finale action sequence.
Someday, we'll have a series of all woman action flicks with a few token guys and they will be moaning about the lack of male characters in cinema.
2. What I'm reading now.
(Really no point in talking about what I've read to date -- since it's been a lot of failed attempts.
* A contemporary New Adult (aka everyone's in college), about a wrestler on scholarship pursuing the film student he relentless bullied in high school. They end up taking a film course together and are assigned a project on exploring sex in film. Which on the face is okay, except within the first fifty pages -- it became clear that she was legitimately terrified of him, and turned on because he was a hunk. Terrified -- because the bullying was basically him urging his friends to run her over with a truck. She was hospitalized and barely survived. He and his friends were suspended and got off on good behavior with barely a prison sentence. Uhm. Okay. No. There is no way on earth that this girl would EVER be turned on sexually by someone who almost killed her. And cruelly stalked her and bullied her for a year. I know I've been bullied and no where near that badly, and I'd never be turned on by that guy. This is not Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this is a girl with serious body issues, who was teased for being overweight, and had no sense of power or agency, and the guy isn't some vampire, he's a pro-wrestler who is insanely stronger than she is. My suspension of belief jumped out the window and went screaming down the block.)
* A contemporary romance that I may go back to, about a black woman, who is curvy and pretty and a white prince who wants her. It's different, but so far the heroine is a described as annoyingly self-absorbed Human Resources Fashionista, and I don't know...haven't gotten to the male lead yet.
* A contemporary romance about a woman from India who was arranged to marry a guy in India, but it fell through, so she takes off to America for an education and his brother goes after her, and falls for her. I don't know, the heroine is a ninny who is weeping in the Visa line because her arranged marriage fell through. May come back to it.
* An Immortal Highlander who is a dark elf/fae going after an Irish law intern who can see the fae. It's stupid.]
His Wicked Kiss by someone named Galen, it's about a woman who has been raised in the Jungles of South America by her scientist father just after the Napoleanic Wars. Along comes the hero who is helping the rebels in South America overthrow the government. He has a ship. He is going back to England. She stows away. Because back then -- women are property and her father won't take her back, insists she follow him and marry the Australian body-guard/mercernary who has been helping him.
This guy sees her as his, regardless of what she thinks. And her father wants to just hand her over to him. She likes the hero. So she stows away on the hero's ship. The author makes a point of showing how powerless women are back then.
3. Well, commute was less irksome. Also less crowded. We're either in Spring Break take 2 or everyone chose to drive after the hellish commute yesterday. (Subways were out on G and F line from 5PM to 10:30 PM). Today, it was the LIRR's turn. There was a four alarm fire that broke out at a recycling plant next to the track in Hillside, as a result, four lines of the LIRR were suspended. Fire on the tracks, nothing running. I got home -- didn't effect my line, thankfully.
Weirdly at work and online, the people who picked up on the awesome female characters and the fact that they are distinctive and different from ANY superhero or action film in both the diversity of their roles and the lack of sexual objectification -- are women. The guys offline and on? JUST DON"T GET IT.
Hmm.
I'm wondering if you have to be female to pick up on this sort of thing?
Instead all the guys pick up on the lackluster finale action sequence.
Someday, we'll have a series of all woman action flicks with a few token guys and they will be moaning about the lack of male characters in cinema.
2. What I'm reading now.
(Really no point in talking about what I've read to date -- since it's been a lot of failed attempts.
* A contemporary New Adult (aka everyone's in college), about a wrestler on scholarship pursuing the film student he relentless bullied in high school. They end up taking a film course together and are assigned a project on exploring sex in film. Which on the face is okay, except within the first fifty pages -- it became clear that she was legitimately terrified of him, and turned on because he was a hunk. Terrified -- because the bullying was basically him urging his friends to run her over with a truck. She was hospitalized and barely survived. He and his friends were suspended and got off on good behavior with barely a prison sentence. Uhm. Okay. No. There is no way on earth that this girl would EVER be turned on sexually by someone who almost killed her. And cruelly stalked her and bullied her for a year. I know I've been bullied and no where near that badly, and I'd never be turned on by that guy. This is not Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this is a girl with serious body issues, who was teased for being overweight, and had no sense of power or agency, and the guy isn't some vampire, he's a pro-wrestler who is insanely stronger than she is. My suspension of belief jumped out the window and went screaming down the block.)
* A contemporary romance that I may go back to, about a black woman, who is curvy and pretty and a white prince who wants her. It's different, but so far the heroine is a described as annoyingly self-absorbed Human Resources Fashionista, and I don't know...haven't gotten to the male lead yet.
* A contemporary romance about a woman from India who was arranged to marry a guy in India, but it fell through, so she takes off to America for an education and his brother goes after her, and falls for her. I don't know, the heroine is a ninny who is weeping in the Visa line because her arranged marriage fell through. May come back to it.
* An Immortal Highlander who is a dark elf/fae going after an Irish law intern who can see the fae. It's stupid.]
His Wicked Kiss by someone named Galen, it's about a woman who has been raised in the Jungles of South America by her scientist father just after the Napoleanic Wars. Along comes the hero who is helping the rebels in South America overthrow the government. He has a ship. He is going back to England. She stows away. Because back then -- women are property and her father won't take her back, insists she follow him and marry the Australian body-guard/mercernary who has been helping him.
This guy sees her as his, regardless of what she thinks. And her father wants to just hand her over to him. She likes the hero. So she stows away on the hero's ship. The author makes a point of showing how powerless women are back then.
3. Well, commute was less irksome. Also less crowded. We're either in Spring Break take 2 or everyone chose to drive after the hellish commute yesterday. (Subways were out on G and F line from 5PM to 10:30 PM). Today, it was the LIRR's turn. There was a four alarm fire that broke out at a recycling plant next to the track in Hillside, as a result, four lines of the LIRR were suspended. Fire on the tracks, nothing running. I got home -- didn't effect my line, thankfully.