Vampire Diaries premiere leads to feminist revelation - news at 11
Williamson is really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. A poor man's Danica McKellar+Shiri Appleby meets a poor man's David Boreanaz (and Ian Somerhalder obviously slumming for cash, pm!ScarJo/Jessica Biel, pm!Ryan Robbins, pm!Stacey Dash, pm!Joshua Jackson, pm!Ed Westwick, pm!James van der Geek and undoubtedly many more that I have yet to have the dubious pleasure of watching - assuming I can bear to continue watching). So so cheesy. I know too many of the songs they're using, it must be skewing old in the music dept. I can't believe how blatantly KW is ripping off every vampire cliche ever invented. The photo of Katherine, his dead love from 1864 who just happened to be DanicaShiri in anachronistic makeup for some reason put me over the edge. This show is ridiculous! Women are betrayed by their blood, they're embarrassingly smelly with it, they're menstruating. And then pm!Ed tries to rape pm!ScarJessica, she tries weakly to fight him off and suddenly it occurs to me -
This is why the patriarchy brainwashes us into thinking we need to starve ourselves nearly to death to be hot/P2k compliant - because it makes us weak, it makes it harder to fight back when men try to rape us. Because if we nourish our bodies enough to grow muscles, and work out / use them, we can't be overpowered as easily. Meanwhile they take steroids, to be even stronger. Men want to have to overpower us because it's so much hotter when they succeed. They want us to have long hair because it provides a convenient handle.
This means - the way to fight the patriarchy is to fucking eat and get bigger, stronger. Disavow the propaganda of "smaller is better" - I remember SMG pummelling the boxer's dummy in OMWF and the hideous irony - Joss had to give her magical strength because she was so tiny and frail-looking that it wouldn't be believable. Whereas in the movie Kristy Swanson had the physique for it, you could actually imagine her kicking someone's ass, specifically male ass. SMG didn't look like she could hurt a fly unless some ancient witch-doctors were impregnating The First Slayer with their demon smoke-sperm, seeping into her and, by proxy, us all, the patriarchy personified. I will have to come back to this later, I think.
And why, why didn't I remove the SPN Season Pass from my DVR? I broke up with the show after the finale, I said I was done, I washed my hands of it. Yet I didn't actually think to do that, to make it real, and then I stupidly watched the premiere. I can't say anything about it until I post about the finale, maybe? It was about par for the course for SPN, really. The previews made me want to cry, or would have if I weren't so numb with horror.
In thrilling health news, my back hurts and has been since Monday when it got cold and everything went down the tubes emotionally. I didn't go to PT today because I had so much work to do, I couldn't handle it. Now I'm regretting it, sort of. I'm going go take a bath and read Charlaine Harris. Sufficient unto the day, indeed.
This is why the patriarchy brainwashes us into thinking we need to starve ourselves nearly to death to be hot/P2k compliant - because it makes us weak, it makes it harder to fight back when men try to rape us. Because if we nourish our bodies enough to grow muscles, and work out / use them, we can't be overpowered as easily. Meanwhile they take steroids, to be even stronger. Men want to have to overpower us because it's so much hotter when they succeed. They want us to have long hair because it provides a convenient handle.
This means - the way to fight the patriarchy is to fucking eat and get bigger, stronger. Disavow the propaganda of "smaller is better" - I remember SMG pummelling the boxer's dummy in OMWF and the hideous irony - Joss had to give her magical strength because she was so tiny and frail-looking that it wouldn't be believable. Whereas in the movie Kristy Swanson had the physique for it, you could actually imagine her kicking someone's ass, specifically male ass. SMG didn't look like she could hurt a fly unless some ancient witch-doctors were impregnating The First Slayer with their demon smoke-sperm, seeping into her and, by proxy, us all, the patriarchy personified. I will have to come back to this later, I think.
And why, why didn't I remove the SPN Season Pass from my DVR? I broke up with the show after the finale, I said I was done, I washed my hands of it. Yet I didn't actually think to do that, to make it real, and then I stupidly watched the premiere. I can't say anything about it until I post about the finale, maybe? It was about par for the course for SPN, really. The previews made me want to cry, or would have if I weren't so numb with horror.
In thrilling health news, my back hurts and has been since Monday when it got cold and everything went down the tubes emotionally. I didn't go to PT today because I had so much work to do, I couldn't handle it. Now I'm regretting it, sort of. I'm going go take a bath and read Charlaine Harris. Sufficient unto the day, indeed.