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Spoiler TV: Merlin Episode 3.03 - Press Release
I dare any Merlin fans to read that and not think it's going to be awesomely entertaining. The actors probably had way too much fun.
io9: Why you feel weather changes in your joints
I've been a human weather barometer for most of my life, just like my mother. Though drastic changes (like say, I hurricane level pressure drop) have gone from just a headache to a level of pain that can leave me bed-ridden. I'm not even sure if I can fly anymore. I had one attack years ago while on a connect flight, but flying to Baltimore for a con left me in agony. I'm almost afraid to fly now. Anyone else feel the weather changes?
Henry Jenkins: Doing Drag in Wal-Mart and Other Stories of Rural Queer Youth: An Interview with Mary L. Gray (Part One)
An interesting discussion in the first place, but this bit caught my eye:
As she does so, she avoids the temptation which ensnares so many academics to score cheap yucks at the expense of the Red States and "flyover country." Instead, Gray tries to help us to understand what is happening in rural America, why this region has become culturally enbattled as it becomes economically and demographically at risk, and why some of these queer youth will continue to live there even given the contradictions shaping their own experiences. This is what good cultural analysis should look like.
I think this is interesting beyond just studies of queer youth, but of youth in general who don't fit the norm of rural youth. And surprisingly, many of them don't, at least according to anyone who isn't a rural youth. Rural is just city done in small scale and one's not better than the other, they're just different.
Being in a city may allow for more support structures for those who are "different" but it doesn't necessarily make them a better choice for someone with that difference. My general reaction when people hear I'm a liberal in rural Texas and they say I should move is along the lines of: Why should I? Much of the heavy conservative stuff came from outside influence within my lifetime, and there's less chance the pendulum will swing back in my direction if I leave. Why let the bastards win by conceding defeat?
I dare any Merlin fans to read that and not think it's going to be awesomely entertaining. The actors probably had way too much fun.
io9: Why you feel weather changes in your joints
I've been a human weather barometer for most of my life, just like my mother. Though drastic changes (like say, I hurricane level pressure drop) have gone from just a headache to a level of pain that can leave me bed-ridden. I'm not even sure if I can fly anymore. I had one attack years ago while on a connect flight, but flying to Baltimore for a con left me in agony. I'm almost afraid to fly now. Anyone else feel the weather changes?
Henry Jenkins: Doing Drag in Wal-Mart and Other Stories of Rural Queer Youth: An Interview with Mary L. Gray (Part One)
An interesting discussion in the first place, but this bit caught my eye:
As she does so, she avoids the temptation which ensnares so many academics to score cheap yucks at the expense of the Red States and "flyover country." Instead, Gray tries to help us to understand what is happening in rural America, why this region has become culturally enbattled as it becomes economically and demographically at risk, and why some of these queer youth will continue to live there even given the contradictions shaping their own experiences. This is what good cultural analysis should look like.
I think this is interesting beyond just studies of queer youth, but of youth in general who don't fit the norm of rural youth. And surprisingly, many of them don't, at least according to anyone who isn't a rural youth. Rural is just city done in small scale and one's not better than the other, they're just different.
Being in a city may allow for more support structures for those who are "different" but it doesn't necessarily make them a better choice for someone with that difference. My general reaction when people hear I'm a liberal in rural Texas and they say I should move is along the lines of: Why should I? Much of the heavy conservative stuff came from outside influence within my lifetime, and there's less chance the pendulum will swing back in my direction if I leave. Why let the bastards win by conceding defeat?