What a lot of fun, you guys have been real swell
Wow, I'm seeing so much BSG-rage on my flist, with tiny little pockets of squee. Fascinating.
So, I have to put my two cents in, for anyone who cares. I fall into the squee camp, with smatterings of WTF? But there is no rage.
( spoilers for the BSG finale )
So, I have to put my two cents in, for anyone who cares. I fall into the squee camp, with smatterings of WTF? But there is no rage.
( spoilers for the BSG finale )
Interesting. I saw it as them bringing all the threads together, the ones I was worried they'd forgotten about, and making them all make sense. I found it really satisfying.
There are some episodes of Doctor Who that I loved on first viewing that now make me think of someone's dissertation on sexism or whatever.
I HATE that. I think it's easy to find sexism in things if you're looking for it. It's easy to find a lot of things if you're looking for them. Some people have their soapboxes they want to get on, and if it's going to dampen my enjoyment of the show, I don't want to play.
Edit: which isn't to say that they're wrong, and that what they're seeing isn't there. It's just that sometimes I don't care. I have strong political views myself, but sometimes I just want to watch stuff instead of making sure it lives up to my lofty moral standards.
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LJ has been riling me up a lot recently, even on truly important issues that I agree with like this whole Amazon business, and I've been trying to figure out what's so agitating to me. I think what it comes down to is that it is all about the soapbox; in a rush to be seen and heard, instead of trying to organize a productive response, everyone grabs the pitchforks (in this case, lots of bold and underline and large font). I don't respect that type of response on LJ or in RL politics. It's not like I'm apathetic; hell, I'm probably going to start working full-time as a lobbyist for a public interest advocacy group pretty soon. I definitely recognize that there's a place for incendiary public protests, mostly as part of a greater organizational effort. But there's a certain type of self-righteousness about public protest activity that gets on my last nerve. Particularly when the sum total of the protest amounts to an LJ rant about [fill-in-the-black ism] in [fill-in-the-blank show], which is mostly just preaching to the choir.
Anyway, just following up because it was on my mind. Sorry for cluttering your inbox!
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People love feeling self-righteous. They LOVE IT. I do myself, sometimes. The moral high ground feels so good.
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