(no subject)
* "Poland surveillance law plan angers protesters :" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35392526
* "Iraq war vet’s Twitter rant shows why we must welcome refugees:" http://mic.com/articles/128946/phil-klay-tweets-best-response-to-america-s-refugee-phobia?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.MG2mmCkfJ
* "Major new reforms to solitary confinement:"
* "Illinois Is Ramping Up a Horrifying Practice Against Its Prisoners:" http://mic.com/articles/129462/illinois-is-ramping-up-a-horrifying-practice-against-its-prisoners?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.yGneWtgKA
* "NAACP: Repeal Michigan Emergency Manager Law:"
* "Flint residents billed for water they can't drink:"
* "New tests show lead in Flint water may exceed filter capacity:"
* A Classicist looks at Mad Max: Fury Road: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/138395036387/aristoteliancomplacency-finally-got-mad-max-on
* London Spy: I am fascinated. I was a minute or two (Practicing in the mirror with the lieing press clippings) into the second episode when I realized it was going to be rather closer to home than I was expecting. The whole press sensationalizing and vilifying the victim thing, all too realistic, really. It's why I didn't try to correct the record for murdered ex, though I wanted to . I figured they'd just use my transness against him further, one more detail to sensationalize and it might harm the prosecution. This is very much a real thing that happens. It's not triggery or anything. It just means I'll be dreaming and thinking about about him a lot.
I like how realistic his grief and anger are. I'm not quite done the second episode. Ben W. is someone I'd happily watch act just about anything, but this is more than just anything. The design of this works beautifully with the plot. I love the weirdness and paranoia. It’s going to keep hurting to watch now and then, but art does that sometimes.
* Re: Jack Calling Max Anne's "Husband” (Black Sails XIX): I assumed Jack thought it was an attack intended to imply that Max was calling the shots/doing Anne's thinking for her. It is part of Jack's unexamined sexism. It implies stereotyped gender roles, it also unwoman's Max because she is strong minded and intelligent, which also has racial implications. (Women who are not white are frequently subjected to the unwomen meme and have been since at least Shakespeare if not earlier). It's very ugly and complex because of the way it carries the weight of centuries of racialized sexism in one word.
I have thoughts about "I can't be your wife," from season 2, which I do think is connected, especially in the context of this conversation. I suspect she is asserting that she can't step into the stereotyped woman's gender role. She is herself with all the complexity that brings. She can't be his idea of a wife, IE: submissive.
Now in XIX, he is accusing her of doing exactly that with Max. Which is interesting, because Max performs femininity in a way Anne never can, just as Jack can never perform masculinity as well as Anne does. I think there has always been an underlying tension in Jack because he can not live up to the conventional view of masculinity the way Vane and Anne appear to do effortlessly. The irony is that of course it is not effortlessly. In season two Anne is constantly fighting to maintain her status and identity, which he mostly misses because of his own drama and male privilege. I would maintain that Charles Vane has all sorts of vulnerabilities displayed at various points: with Eleanor, in the child slave camp, in his last conversation in XIX with Jack, that contradict Jack's image of Vane, and that Jack's never noticed until that conversation. Jack imagines people like Charles Vane and Anne Bonney to be invulnerable in all the ways he is not, because they have well maintained facades of traditional masculinity, but no one is really like that. He takes the image for the whole. It's why it didn't occur to him that Anne could be hurt and why he made such a mess of things in season two by not seeing the tensions or stress in Anne.
I think by making Max Anne's "husband," he's imagining her as powerful and invulnerable while he is feeling impotent (the fort) and deeply vulnerable. It's a projection of his sexist idea of power and strength that holds so much sexism in it. He doesn't see that women can be powerful and strong and still be women. (I wrote about this as applied to Anne extensively for season 2). By relegating her to wife he is trying to insult her, implying she can't think for her self, implying obedience, which is sexist. I also maintain it is an incorrect reading of what she is doing. We see Anne arguing back to both Jack and Max this episode. We see her drawing boundaries with both of them. We see her weighing what various people say and deciding for herself.
Jack is such a hot mess when it comes to gender issues. I think he has such difficulty dealing with women's power because he's so internally conflicted about his own masculinity and lacks both a sort of empathetic imagination and a framework for thinking about the issues. He's basically so far up his own ass and in his own head that he never really looks outward.
* It turns out not everyone knows the cat vomit toilet paper tube trick, so I'm posting it. Save toilet paper tubes. If a cat throws up on a soft furnishing (rug, chair, sofa), scoop it up with the tube and toss it. What's left is faster and easier to clean. It's best with hairballs, but any solid based mess is faster this way. I am not good with warm and squishy. I'd rather just touch dry clean stiff cardboard.
* I’d forgotten this existed. NWS. TW: corpses,cannibalism, feces, blood "Salad Fingers Full Series (1-10):"
* Help the poisoned children of Flint Michigan. "Water Crisis:" https://www.cfgf.org/cfgf/GoodWork/FlintArea/WaterCrisis/tabid/855/Default.aspx
* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan
* Want to help finance Hector's cat food and my meds/medical co pays? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Donate to help refugees "UN Refugee Agency:" http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general
* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
This entry was originally posted at http://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/589334.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
* "Iraq war vet’s Twitter rant shows why we must welcome refugees:" http://mic.com/articles/128946/phil-klay-tweets-best-response-to-america-s-refugee-phobia?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.MG2mmCkfJ
* "Major new reforms to solitary confinement:"
* "Illinois Is Ramping Up a Horrifying Practice Against Its Prisoners:" http://mic.com/articles/129462/illinois-is-ramping-up-a-horrifying-practice-against-its-prisoners?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.yGneWtgKA
* "NAACP: Repeal Michigan Emergency Manager Law:"
* "Flint residents billed for water they can't drink:"
* "New tests show lead in Flint water may exceed filter capacity:"
* A Classicist looks at Mad Max: Fury Road: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/138395036387/aristoteliancomplacency-finally-got-mad-max-on
* London Spy: I am fascinated. I was a minute or two (Practicing in the mirror with the lieing press clippings) into the second episode when I realized it was going to be rather closer to home than I was expecting. The whole press sensationalizing and vilifying the victim thing, all too realistic, really. It's why I didn't try to correct the record for murdered ex, though I wanted to . I figured they'd just use my transness against him further, one more detail to sensationalize and it might harm the prosecution. This is very much a real thing that happens. It's not triggery or anything. It just means I'll be dreaming and thinking about about him a lot.
I like how realistic his grief and anger are. I'm not quite done the second episode. Ben W. is someone I'd happily watch act just about anything, but this is more than just anything. The design of this works beautifully with the plot. I love the weirdness and paranoia. It’s going to keep hurting to watch now and then, but art does that sometimes.
* Re: Jack Calling Max Anne's "Husband” (Black Sails XIX): I assumed Jack thought it was an attack intended to imply that Max was calling the shots/doing Anne's thinking for her. It is part of Jack's unexamined sexism. It implies stereotyped gender roles, it also unwoman's Max because she is strong minded and intelligent, which also has racial implications. (Women who are not white are frequently subjected to the unwomen meme and have been since at least Shakespeare if not earlier). It's very ugly and complex because of the way it carries the weight of centuries of racialized sexism in one word.
I have thoughts about "I can't be your wife," from season 2, which I do think is connected, especially in the context of this conversation. I suspect she is asserting that she can't step into the stereotyped woman's gender role. She is herself with all the complexity that brings. She can't be his idea of a wife, IE: submissive.
Now in XIX, he is accusing her of doing exactly that with Max. Which is interesting, because Max performs femininity in a way Anne never can, just as Jack can never perform masculinity as well as Anne does. I think there has always been an underlying tension in Jack because he can not live up to the conventional view of masculinity the way Vane and Anne appear to do effortlessly. The irony is that of course it is not effortlessly. In season two Anne is constantly fighting to maintain her status and identity, which he mostly misses because of his own drama and male privilege. I would maintain that Charles Vane has all sorts of vulnerabilities displayed at various points: with Eleanor, in the child slave camp, in his last conversation in XIX with Jack, that contradict Jack's image of Vane, and that Jack's never noticed until that conversation. Jack imagines people like Charles Vane and Anne Bonney to be invulnerable in all the ways he is not, because they have well maintained facades of traditional masculinity, but no one is really like that. He takes the image for the whole. It's why it didn't occur to him that Anne could be hurt and why he made such a mess of things in season two by not seeing the tensions or stress in Anne.
I think by making Max Anne's "husband," he's imagining her as powerful and invulnerable while he is feeling impotent (the fort) and deeply vulnerable. It's a projection of his sexist idea of power and strength that holds so much sexism in it. He doesn't see that women can be powerful and strong and still be women. (I wrote about this as applied to Anne extensively for season 2). By relegating her to wife he is trying to insult her, implying she can't think for her self, implying obedience, which is sexist. I also maintain it is an incorrect reading of what she is doing. We see Anne arguing back to both Jack and Max this episode. We see her drawing boundaries with both of them. We see her weighing what various people say and deciding for herself.
Jack is such a hot mess when it comes to gender issues. I think he has such difficulty dealing with women's power because he's so internally conflicted about his own masculinity and lacks both a sort of empathetic imagination and a framework for thinking about the issues. He's basically so far up his own ass and in his own head that he never really looks outward.
* It turns out not everyone knows the cat vomit toilet paper tube trick, so I'm posting it. Save toilet paper tubes. If a cat throws up on a soft furnishing (rug, chair, sofa), scoop it up with the tube and toss it. What's left is faster and easier to clean. It's best with hairballs, but any solid based mess is faster this way. I am not good with warm and squishy. I'd rather just touch dry clean stiff cardboard.
* I’d forgotten this existed. NWS. TW: corpses,cannibalism, feces, blood "Salad Fingers Full Series (1-10):"
Click to view* Help the poisoned children of Flint Michigan. "Water Crisis:" https://www.cfgf.org/cfgf/GoodWork/FlintArea/WaterCrisis/tabid/855/Default.aspx
* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan
* Want to help finance Hector's cat food and my meds/medical co pays? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Donate to help refugees "UN Refugee Agency:" http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general
* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
This entry was originally posted at http://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/589334.html. Please comment there using OpenID.