jeSUS. where are our neighbors even getting this many fireworks? it's like it turned warm two weeks ago and now all they can do is blow shit up. and while I understand the appeal of blowing shit up, they seriously have to have SOMETHING else to do with their time besides detonating things in our driveway. they mill around the parking lot all ( Read more... )

hardcore feminist take on FireflyWoah. Now, I do have a few feminist qualms with Firefly. The whole Inara Companion thing is just all over the place. Joss wants it to be a geisha parallel, he wants all the Mal "OMG whore!" bullshit, he wants it's own weird type of quasi-religious status, and doesn't really gel it together all that well (IMO). I get ( Read more... )

oh Christ, another lj kerfluffle. I love the posters in the comments all flailing around about omg it's all evil MARKETING PLOYS - gasp! a private company marketing its product the way they want it to be viewed?! christ, it's practically Nazi Germany up in here! I do agree that the censorship is pretty douchey and it's depressing that it's falling ( Read more... )

discussed feminism in philosophy, which didn't go terribly well. one problem might have been that the handout-with-quotes that the teacher provided us with had 6 quotes from men disparaging women and their capacity for reason and intelligence, and 1 quote from a woman that still emphasised reason as a very male attribute. which is ridiculous. I don ( Read more... )

House fandom makes me so very, very tired. well, the show itself isn't too good right now, but the fandom is just unpleasant. also, there damn well better be some House/Foreman stuff popping up, because a hell of a lot of fanfic has come out of much less significant scenes involving House and Wilson, House and Chase, House and basically any guy ( Read more... )

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we're starting a unit on the Philosophy of Love and Sexuality next week. expect pages and pages and PAGES of ranting off the upcoming-oh-god-there's-no-way-to-stop-it barrage of idiocy and DUMB that'll come out of my class. I haven't had sociology for a few days, so hopefully my class is over their collective swooning fit from the transsexual video ( Read more... )

I was going to write a post on why I hate Family Guy - and not because I don't understaaand Seth McFarlane's "genius", or cause I'm too PC to handle it, but rather because it's rote, poorly written and over-all mediocre, but someone already explained it pretty well. I'd also like to add that the Meg stuff is really really really creepy and not all ( Read more... )

we watched an HBO special on transsexuality in sociology today and ... on the plus side, it was really really interesting, mentioned a bunch of different things I hadn't heard before, and had a scene with pretty Indian boys grinding each other. and Gore Vidal! not grinding anyone - I'm pretty sure that would kill him - just nararrating. on the ( Read more... )

... my philosophy teacher said something AGAIN about how wonderfully equal lesbian relationships are, this time in comparison to gay relationships where there's obviously always conflict about who's in the utterly humiliating submissive role. it's just - gah. it's irritating me more than it should - I mean, obviously it's better than just being ( Read more... )