Gallimaufry
There is just something horribly ironic about spending 9 hours online so you'll spend less time online. However, I think I've got the cuts & filters all set. (Read: I've got a sustainable daily list and a scary weekly list. And an entirely separate private post with links to 30 Doctor Who communities.)
I'm going to do a full Torchwood review when I can talk about the last two episodes in conjunction with each other & I still haven't seen Fragments. I will say without discussing plot that it was very nice to see a large chunk of the episode be handled by the women for once, especially as Jack & Owen have been used as the "get out of plot problem free" cards so often. And, of course, I squeed fit to knock bats out of the sky at That Bit.
Enterprising Women strikes again: the latest dimbette with an agenda and a I-am-more-feminist-than-thou attitude explaining the social and psychological meaning of slash fanfiction to the poor ignorant fangirls. Go wank to your delusions of academe, child. You might be shocked to discover someday that fannish women can talk about their relative position in fringe groups and larger societies All By Themselves, and are shockingly capable of grasping both text and subtext in their own hobbies - and a hell of a lot more accurately than anyone who feels the need to assume that fangirl = drooling uneducated idiot.
Someone's certainly uneducated, to come out with lines like this: Fanfic writers pride themselves on their respect for and fidelity to their original source material, and in their writing they rarely, if ever, do anything that questions or contradicts the ideologies underwriting the original texts. BWAhahahahahahaaa! Your detailed research consisted of reading 3 stories on fanfiction.net, didn't it?
For boogiebabe_smap, these two links from naamah-darling of an amazing dancing dog in canine freestyle competition: The Gladiator (like Naamah, I am amused by the viciously wagging tail) and Hooray for Hollywood.
You'll probably appreciate this from the same source: the Trilobite song.
Which leads into my second set of links: the story of Dr. PZ Myers and "Expelled from Expelled."
PZ (all due respect to Dr. Myers, but "PZ" is faster to type) writes a blog called Pharyngula. Pharyngula is about a lot of things, but PZ is often adamantly posting on two subjects: 1) he is an atheist and proud of it and 2) he despises creationism and all its kin.
A while ago, he was interviewed for a movie he was told would be on religion and science called "Crossroads." It turned out to be a pro-Intelligent Design movie called "Expelled." There was an advance filming. He went. Well... he tried to go.
They didn't let him in. PZ was considered to be a disruptive element, so a rent-a-cop not only threatened to arrest him if he didn't leave before entering the theater, he followed Dr. Myers out to the parking lot and threatened to arrest him THERE as well if he didn't clear off. Someone needs to have a little lesson on "public property." But the funniest part is who they let in - PZ's guest, infamous atheist and loather of creationism/ID, Richard Dawkins. Who apparently gave them an earful during the Q&A after.
PZ has follow-up posts on it here and here, and his daughter (who was allowed in) has a movie review.
It started hitting other blogs.
THEN it hit the NY Times. (PZ's response to that.)
Christianity Today's headline is Dawkins Crashes 'Expelled' Party
The best set of links is here.
I'm going to do a full Torchwood review when I can talk about the last two episodes in conjunction with each other & I still haven't seen Fragments. I will say without discussing plot that it was very nice to see a large chunk of the episode be handled by the women for once, especially as Jack & Owen have been used as the "get out of plot problem free" cards so often. And, of course, I squeed fit to knock bats out of the sky at That Bit.
Enterprising Women strikes again: the latest dimbette with an agenda and a I-am-more-feminist-than-thou attitude explaining the social and psychological meaning of slash fanfiction to the poor ignorant fangirls. Go wank to your delusions of academe, child. You might be shocked to discover someday that fannish women can talk about their relative position in fringe groups and larger societies All By Themselves, and are shockingly capable of grasping both text and subtext in their own hobbies - and a hell of a lot more accurately than anyone who feels the need to assume that fangirl = drooling uneducated idiot.
Someone's certainly uneducated, to come out with lines like this: Fanfic writers pride themselves on their respect for and fidelity to their original source material, and in their writing they rarely, if ever, do anything that questions or contradicts the ideologies underwriting the original texts. BWAhahahahahahaaa! Your detailed research consisted of reading 3 stories on fanfiction.net, didn't it?
For boogiebabe_smap, these two links from naamah-darling of an amazing dancing dog in canine freestyle competition: The Gladiator (like Naamah, I am amused by the viciously wagging tail) and Hooray for Hollywood.
You'll probably appreciate this from the same source: the Trilobite song.
Which leads into my second set of links: the story of Dr. PZ Myers and "Expelled from Expelled."
PZ (all due respect to Dr. Myers, but "PZ" is faster to type) writes a blog called Pharyngula. Pharyngula is about a lot of things, but PZ is often adamantly posting on two subjects: 1) he is an atheist and proud of it and 2) he despises creationism and all its kin.
A while ago, he was interviewed for a movie he was told would be on religion and science called "Crossroads." It turned out to be a pro-Intelligent Design movie called "Expelled." There was an advance filming. He went. Well... he tried to go.
They didn't let him in. PZ was considered to be a disruptive element, so a rent-a-cop not only threatened to arrest him if he didn't leave before entering the theater, he followed Dr. Myers out to the parking lot and threatened to arrest him THERE as well if he didn't clear off. Someone needs to have a little lesson on "public property." But the funniest part is who they let in - PZ's guest, infamous atheist and loather of creationism/ID, Richard Dawkins. Who apparently gave them an earful during the Q&A after.
PZ has follow-up posts on it here and here, and his daughter (who was allowed in) has a movie review.
It started hitting other blogs.
THEN it hit the NY Times. (PZ's response to that.)
Christianity Today's headline is Dawkins Crashes 'Expelled' Party
The best set of links is here.