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shadowkatSo does anyone know what the weird Doctor Who fandom kerfuffle on Twitter was even about?
From the blurbs I've read on my flist - it appears that a couple of holier than thou Doctor Who nitwits got all hot and bothered over the last Doctor Who episode? WTF? I saw that episode. While certainly not the best tv episode on the planet, it wasn't the worst either. It was sort of innocuous. And silly. With a few good relationship moments. I've seen worse and far more offensive Doctor Who episodes (*cough*RunawayBride*cough* and sigh...some 1970s ones that I only vaguely remember.) Also for that matter seen worse tv episodes period.
Did the Twitter DW fandom just go insane? Twitter can do that to people ...actually so can the internet for that matter. Late night posting should not be permitted.
At the same time this is going on there's a bunch of loony people in Egypt protesting a movie about Mohammed. (Which the Muslim community so does not need right now, they have enough PR problems as it is. Wish the news media would show the crazy Judeo/Christian protests too - after all I vividly remember when every other church in the country went nutty over Martin Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ. I ended up seeing it at the Unitarian Church while people protested out front in Colorado Springs. And just to show how hypocritical these people can be - they just could not understand why other's protested Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ.) Folks, I want to say, the problem with freedom of expression (or free speech and freedom of religion) is that it means you have to put up with expressions (or speech) that you don't like or necessarily agree with and often offend you. Same with religions. You can't have your cake and eat it too. I'm sorry. If you get to offend me, I get to offend you. And you have to take it like a grown-up. That's how it works. Stop throwing a whiny hissy fit, and calmly make your own counter-argument. It's a lot more affective. (Having thrown the whiny hissy fit myself on occasion, I've learned this the hard way - maybe throwing whiny hissy fits is human? Or just immature? The internet can bring it out in you. That and self-righteous diatribes...those also appear to be quite the rage at the moment.) You don't like what someone says about your religion or you find it offensive? Find a creative and peaceful way of stating it. Screaming, throwing stones, making death threats, and burning flags isn't going to help your cause. Grow up. Seriously, these nitwits give social justice a bad name. That's not social justice people - that's throwing a violent temper-tantrum.
Feel like crap. Allergies. Been alternating between being freezing and hot all day long - and no I'm not running a fever (I checked). And a random mosquito keeps snacking on me in my apartment.
Plus the comedy club meetup that I signed up for on Sat...and paid for, has two people going. Me and the Organizer. Which is why I don't normally sign up for anything on meetups with money attached. Feel sorry for the organizer. Meetups are a mixed bag. You either get a 100 people and for the weirdest things or only two people.
So feel like crap and am depressed. Is there a hole somewhere that I can climb into? Oh well, at least the weather has been disarmingly cheery. I feel like it is mocking me.
I love September, I truly do, it just does not love me.
From the blurbs I've read on my flist - it appears that a couple of holier than thou Doctor Who nitwits got all hot and bothered over the last Doctor Who episode? WTF? I saw that episode. While certainly not the best tv episode on the planet, it wasn't the worst either. It was sort of innocuous. And silly. With a few good relationship moments. I've seen worse and far more offensive Doctor Who episodes (*cough*RunawayBride*cough* and sigh...some 1970s ones that I only vaguely remember.) Also for that matter seen worse tv episodes period.
Did the Twitter DW fandom just go insane? Twitter can do that to people ...actually so can the internet for that matter. Late night posting should not be permitted.
At the same time this is going on there's a bunch of loony people in Egypt protesting a movie about Mohammed. (Which the Muslim community so does not need right now, they have enough PR problems as it is. Wish the news media would show the crazy Judeo/Christian protests too - after all I vividly remember when every other church in the country went nutty over Martin Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ. I ended up seeing it at the Unitarian Church while people protested out front in Colorado Springs. And just to show how hypocritical these people can be - they just could not understand why other's protested Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ.) Folks, I want to say, the problem with freedom of expression (or free speech and freedom of religion) is that it means you have to put up with expressions (or speech) that you don't like or necessarily agree with and often offend you. Same with religions. You can't have your cake and eat it too. I'm sorry. If you get to offend me, I get to offend you. And you have to take it like a grown-up. That's how it works. Stop throwing a whiny hissy fit, and calmly make your own counter-argument. It's a lot more affective. (Having thrown the whiny hissy fit myself on occasion, I've learned this the hard way - maybe throwing whiny hissy fits is human? Or just immature? The internet can bring it out in you. That and self-righteous diatribes...those also appear to be quite the rage at the moment.) You don't like what someone says about your religion or you find it offensive? Find a creative and peaceful way of stating it. Screaming, throwing stones, making death threats, and burning flags isn't going to help your cause. Grow up. Seriously, these nitwits give social justice a bad name. That's not social justice people - that's throwing a violent temper-tantrum.
Feel like crap. Allergies. Been alternating between being freezing and hot all day long - and no I'm not running a fever (I checked). And a random mosquito keeps snacking on me in my apartment.
Plus the comedy club meetup that I signed up for on Sat...and paid for, has two people going. Me and the Organizer. Which is why I don't normally sign up for anything on meetups with money attached. Feel sorry for the organizer. Meetups are a mixed bag. You either get a 100 people and for the weirdest things or only two people.
So feel like crap and am depressed. Is there a hole somewhere that I can climb into? Oh well, at least the weather has been disarmingly cheery. I feel like it is mocking me.
I love September, I truly do, it just does not love me.
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Date: 2012-09-13 11:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-13 09:52 pm (UTC)Moffat's possibly the least sexist of the Doctor Who writers to date. Rory has a traditional female job (he's a male nurse), he took Amy Pond's last name. She's clearly the bread-winner and driving force. River has a doctorate, is an archeologist. And can actually regenerate. And even in this episode...you have the much brighter and more savvy Nefretti vs. the silly villian, and the himbo Charles Liddel.
I'm not saying Moffat is perfect. But in some respects I find him to be less sexist than fan favorite RT Davies or any of the previous ones.
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Date: 2012-09-13 12:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-13 09:44 pm (UTC)They are killing people and burning flags over some crazy right-wing proganda video on the internet? Have they lost their minds?
Sigh. We really do live in the age of misinformation.
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Date: 2012-09-13 11:47 pm (UTC)but evidently the timing of the movie's release seems to coincide with some planned Al Qaeda attacks (the weapons they had ready could not have been a coincidence) so it is all very weird...
like both sides (crazy Coptic Christian movie maker and Al Qaeda terrorists) wanted these riots to happen for their own reasons, and the US embassy just got caught in the middle. The middle east is very scary.