Comments | brown_betty: later, ask me what I think about keen little gadgets in the shape of dismembered women. (Guess.)

brown_betty

later, ask me what I think about keen little gadgets in the shape of dismembered women. (Guess.)

Jan 26, 2009 00:01

So the other night, more or less by accident, kphoebe and I ended up watching Criminal Minds together. I had read the one sentence TV guide blurb, but honestly I had more or less forgotten about that by the time I started watching. Twenty minutes twenty three seconds later, (by my chat log) we were on AIM together boggling at the bafflingly insensitive ( Read more... )

fandom: criminal minds, rant: race

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skywardprodigal January 26 2009, 08:06:03 UTC

Gypsies stole my baby?!

brown_betty January 26 2009, 08:14:05 UTC

And, as a lot of people have pointed out, what on earth do these people do with their girl-children? Kidnap them husbands? Eat 'em? Maybe dingoes ate 'em.

sparkymonster January 26 2009, 21:37:23 UTC

My roommate asked the question of "but what about the girls" as well. We've spent some time coming up with new horrible options. Infanticide is the "winner" so far.

brown_betty January 26 2009, 22:14:13 UTC

Magical gypsy sex-selective birth-control, with their magical ethnic wisdoms!

karenhealey January 27 2009, 12:15:11 UTC

WHAT HAS IT COME TO THAT THAT IS MY PREFERRED OPTION?

winterknight January 27 2009, 19:22:15 UTC

That was my assumption. Abandonment to death or charity.

Also, I hated the episode; I thought it was poorly done on a lot of levels, not just the total racist fail though that trumped everything else.

brown_betty January 27 2009, 19:45:12 UTC

Yeah, the thing where Jordan called out Prentiss on using “the victim” felt clumsy and forced to me, because I don't think Prentiss is likely to distance herself that way, and it felt like she did it just so Todd could call her on it. And also, the episode was totally fail at profiling. No profiling was done, they solved it mostly by 1) the account by the first victim and 2) the hair which linked the mother to the girls disappearing enabling them 3) to alter a picture and 4) pick her up at the mall and then 5) bad-cop/good-cop her into giving them information. There's nowhere in there that knowing they're Roma even actually helped them solve the crime.

But I didn't want to bring up “AND ALSO THE WRITING WAS BAD” because I sort of wanted to keep the focus narrow.

winterknight January 27 2009, 19:53:33 UTC

Yeah, "AND ALSO THE WRITING WAS BAD" is kind of... it's TV, dude. What do you want? <.<;;

I've been really cringy over things this season.

I'm glad to find SOMEONE saying "wow, that was full of fail." I researched Rromani history for a novel and discovered the depths of the racist evil directed at them, so this show just pained me from start to finish. Any time "gypsies" (or "travellers") come up, it's generally a recipe for "wtf" and "fail".

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