New River Icon!
May. 2nd, 2011 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatHee. Got a new Doctor River Song icon, which I cropped from a screenshot that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beer_good_foamy posted. Not perfect, but not all that bad either. This is rather nifty actually. Time was I was quietly shipping Doctor River Song and Doctor Song/Doctor Who all by my lonesome. If other people were doing it - they either weren't on my flist or they were being quiet about it like I was. It was uncool to ship River after Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead - because you got attacked. I have a tendency to ship characters that piss other people off. It's a thing. ;-)
Not sure how anyone can dislike River - it may have something to do with a comment CW made a while back - she told me that she didn't like tough warrior women characters, she felt that they were fanboy creations and offensive and not really women. They were women trying to be men (I tried not to bristle at this somewhat conservative, limiting and rigid pov. It should be noted that CW is conservative (from a Brit perspective - ultra conservative, from an American perspective, Moderately conservative and is the one who suggested I read Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead for the great female characters (sigh), adored the Lost ending (it validated her world-view and belief system - while I thought it was a bit silly and cliche), is a fan of the first George Bush and Ronald Regan (who I'm convinced destroyed our economy and aided in global warming, amongst other evils), and thinks Buffy was for tween girls...enuf said. In short - we're good friends in spite of our differences in opinion.) I did, after a few moments, analyze why she felt the way she did and I felt the way I did, and came to a meeting of minds on the matter. I get where she's coming from - she feels that women are strong in other ways, and there is a clear difference between gender and to overlook that is demeaning. But CW is also shorter than I am, different body type, has a background as a dancer and football rally girl. While I'm tall and was athletic in a more traditionally masculain way - I can't dance, can't do gymnastics, and pursued track and field, and swimming in school. I have a big bone structure. For me, men and women are equals in all things.
ALL THINGS. And the distinctions are in our own minds. I think..we just see it differently. And maybe I'm doing us both an injustice trying to understand why?
Off to watch In Plain Sight, and hopefully get to bed early. Slept poorly the last two nights. And it's affecting the brain.
beer_good_foamy posted. Not perfect, but not all that bad either. This is rather nifty actually. Time was I was quietly shipping Doctor River Song and Doctor Song/Doctor Who all by my lonesome. If other people were doing it - they either weren't on my flist or they were being quiet about it like I was. It was uncool to ship River after Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead - because you got attacked. I have a tendency to ship characters that piss other people off. It's a thing. ;-) Not sure how anyone can dislike River - it may have something to do with a comment CW made a while back - she told me that she didn't like tough warrior women characters, she felt that they were fanboy creations and offensive and not really women. They were women trying to be men (I tried not to bristle at this somewhat conservative, limiting and rigid pov. It should be noted that CW is conservative (from a Brit perspective - ultra conservative, from an American perspective, Moderately conservative and is the one who suggested I read Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead for the great female characters (sigh), adored the Lost ending (it validated her world-view and belief system - while I thought it was a bit silly and cliche), is a fan of the first George Bush and Ronald Regan (who I'm convinced destroyed our economy and aided in global warming, amongst other evils), and thinks Buffy was for tween girls...enuf said. In short - we're good friends in spite of our differences in opinion.) I did, after a few moments, analyze why she felt the way she did and I felt the way I did, and came to a meeting of minds on the matter. I get where she's coming from - she feels that women are strong in other ways, and there is a clear difference between gender and to overlook that is demeaning. But CW is also shorter than I am, different body type, has a background as a dancer and football rally girl. While I'm tall and was athletic in a more traditionally masculain way - I can't dance, can't do gymnastics, and pursued track and field, and swimming in school. I have a big bone structure. For me, men and women are equals in all things.
ALL THINGS. And the distinctions are in our own minds. I think..we just see it differently. And maybe I'm doing us both an injustice trying to understand why?
Off to watch In Plain Sight, and hopefully get to bed early. Slept poorly the last two nights. And it's affecting the brain.