Gender!fail in Oz and Barak (no, they're not related)
If you'd like to know why I recommend you avoid the new Oz movie, I bring you this quote from the wiki article on the movie. Madripoor_Rose pointed it out in her journal and it made my head explode into flames:
Screenwriter Mitchel Kapner was intrigued by the prospect of exploring the origins of the Wizard of Oz character. Producer Joe Roth became involved for nearly the same reason as Kapner, stating that "...during the years that I spent running Walt Disney Studios -- I learned about how hard it was to find a fairy tale with a good strong male protagonist. You've got your Sleeping Beauties, your Cinderellas and your Alices. But a fairy tale with a male protagonist is very hard to come by. But with the origin story of the Wizard of Oz, here was a fairy tale story with a natural male protagonist. Which is why I knew that this was an idea for a movie that was genuinely worth pursuing."
So...yeah. And then my head exploded and it was messy and stuff. Because...wow, I can't even coherently respond to the amount of stupid in this paragraph. I'm basically at the pointing and flailing stage, but I assume that more coherent folks will carry on from here.
::facepalm::
Anyway, I'd just like to note that Barak turned four today and he's adorable and evil in equal measures, which is (I suppose) entirely normal, but still rather frustrating. I had a great time co-oping in his class and then we went for pizza and picked up a cake to have tonight. And we came home and snuggled on the couch, which was nice.
Then he spent all of dinner crying because I'd given him a red plate (meat) instead of a blue plate and he wasn't having any of my argument that chicken is meat when clearly I was just trying to deprive him of his rightful blue plate. ::sigh:: But now he's adorably asleep on the couch downstairs.
Tomorrow I head back to the orthopedist to say "Um, my shoulder still hurts, what now?" I've been reading up but I honestly can't figure out what the logical next step is. There are a bunch of a different possibilities and every reputable source seemed to have a different idea. ::throws one hand in the air because the other arm hurts too much::
Okay, I have no idea where Avi's disappeared to, so I'm going to drag Yael up to go to bed. (It's quite late but tonight's been crazy, with Avi bringing in furniture--don't ask--and my in-laws here and whatnot.)
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Screenwriter Mitchel Kapner was intrigued by the prospect of exploring the origins of the Wizard of Oz character. Producer Joe Roth became involved for nearly the same reason as Kapner, stating that "...during the years that I spent running Walt Disney Studios -- I learned about how hard it was to find a fairy tale with a good strong male protagonist. You've got your Sleeping Beauties, your Cinderellas and your Alices. But a fairy tale with a male protagonist is very hard to come by. But with the origin story of the Wizard of Oz, here was a fairy tale story with a natural male protagonist. Which is why I knew that this was an idea for a movie that was genuinely worth pursuing."
So...yeah. And then my head exploded and it was messy and stuff. Because...wow, I can't even coherently respond to the amount of stupid in this paragraph. I'm basically at the pointing and flailing stage, but I assume that more coherent folks will carry on from here.
::facepalm::
Anyway, I'd just like to note that Barak turned four today and he's adorable and evil in equal measures, which is (I suppose) entirely normal, but still rather frustrating. I had a great time co-oping in his class and then we went for pizza and picked up a cake to have tonight. And we came home and snuggled on the couch, which was nice.
Then he spent all of dinner crying because I'd given him a red plate (meat) instead of a blue plate and he wasn't having any of my argument that chicken is meat when clearly I was just trying to deprive him of his rightful blue plate. ::sigh:: But now he's adorably asleep on the couch downstairs.
Tomorrow I head back to the orthopedist to say "Um, my shoulder still hurts, what now?" I've been reading up but I honestly can't figure out what the logical next step is. There are a bunch of a different possibilities and every reputable source seemed to have a different idea. ::throws one hand in the air because the other arm hurts too much::
Okay, I have no idea where Avi's disappeared to, so I'm going to drag Yael up to go to bed. (It's quite late but tonight's been crazy, with Avi bringing in furniture--don't ask--and my in-laws here and whatnot.)
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comments. Please feel free to comment either here or there.