An extended critique of Ferd's vid "Strip"

[thingswithwings]

I don't know what the current fandom convention is when posting something that critiques someone else's work - I've heard that even whispering that someone might not be perfect can destroy souls and ruin christmas fandom for everyone. Also, I know very well from experience that I don't like it when random white male American people show up in my

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[twospots]

Blah! The thing that made me most uncomfortable in that was the OMG MALE GAZE LOOK EVERYONE BOOOOOBIES. Which, okay, is in the source material, but the vid reinforces it in ways that made me very uncomfortable.

Of course, I can't really tell whether this bothers me more or less than the issues that you pointed out, what with you having pointed them out already and torn them apart and all.

Also? I am too cynical. I watched the happy ladies vid and sadly, it was not an antidote to the OMG Straight People in Love and Pretty Costumes vid. I have seen too many of the sources. I kept being like, "Oh yeah? You're happy NOW. Guess what happens next??" Actually, I was doing that for the ones I didn't recognize, too. This is why I do not watch Ladies in Love movies any more.

In conclusion, the world is depressing but it is always awesome when you dissect it because you always do it so brilliantly.

[nextian]

*points up* This! This what you said. Especially that last sentence.

[twospots]

Dissecting makes everything better!

[thingswithwings]

Yes, definitely! The malegazeyness of it is really nasty.

"Oh yeah? You're happy NOW. Guess what happens next??"

ahahahahaha ow. So true! I love how Charmax references that on the lyric "the beast won't go to sleep" - yeah, we just can't get rid of all those dead lesbians! But . . . Imagine Me and You is in there? And some other happy sources? Sigh. eruthros is like you on the refusing to watch - her policy is that she won't watch anything where the queers die/get raped/end up miserable and alone at the bottom of a bottle. Fair! But it means she basically just watches But I'm A Cheerleader over and over.

[twospots]

Yeah, I mean, it's not like I ever watch movies anyway, so it's a bit of a fake policy. But also, it's more like I'm just never ever interested in the dead gay people movies any more. I'm like "Gay people movie? BORING." The last one I saw was Brokeback Mountain, which... well, yeah.