You know, I get a bit growly whenever people complain about the librarian stereotype and go, ”We're not all frumpy bespectacled women in comfortable shoes, honestly!” But I remind myself, hey, they're not frumpy bespectacled women in comfortable shoes, they want people to know that, fair enough.
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She was a watershed character for tv, and a lot of other shows/characters wouldn't exist without her.
That said, hell yes there are other strong female characters who don't kill demons.
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I'm giving her points for being a main character, though - most amazons tend to be part of an ensemble.
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But Joss' kinks kind of never stopped- see: River, Dru, etc etc etc, so I can see where folks would get tired of it.
As for amazons, I think Aeryn Sun is a good example of someone not Hollywood standard of beauty kicking ass, but I'm hard pressed to come up with a ton of those.
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Yeah, and for me... I mean, check rant #1, I'm not Sarah Michelle Gellar, I'm Jamie Lee Curtis. The popular girls are already popular. I don't resent them getting a bit of ass-kicking, I resent being expected to laud it as groundbreaking.
As for amazons, I think Aeryn Sun is a good example of someone not Hollywood standard of beauty kicking ass, but I'm hard pressed to come up with a ton of those.Aeryn Sun is beautiful - but then, I never said they weren't allowed to be pretty. Taller and more muscular, maybe ( ... )
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/rant on why I can't, occasionally, wear uncomfortable shoes.
I've been watching a lot of Vampire Diaries, and I've really been impressed wtih how the female characters there are given strengths. The mane female had such potential to be Bella Swan, except when the vampire told her he was leaving for her own good, she replied with something to the effect of "You keep telling yourself that, buddy. Meanwhile, I know the risks, I know what I want, and if you leave, you are completely doing it for YOU."
Even the token ditsy blonde, who was a total tool for the men in early episodes, is growing and gaining strength on a personal level.
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But I like my female environment. *pouts*
That's cool about the Vampire Diaries; I've never seen them.
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Which it is close to being, except the women in this series are AWESOME and the Vampires are awesome, and there is a fuzzy line between food and bad that you can't distinguish with red contacts.
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It is a duty for women to be fresh and sexy and well-dressed, because that's having a personality! Dustbunnies have no personality. Duh.
In a nutshell.
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I shamefully admit that I thought, "Oh yeah? Well, I'm twenty years younger than you and not yet desperate enough to rely on clothes to make me interesting."
I did enjoy other posts by that blogger, though.
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Because high heels make so much sense when you're working a job where you're standing a lot, walking a lot, and have to be able to reach the highest and lowest shelves, often by using one of these little plastic footstool thingies. And of course, every work performance of any woman is defined by her level of sexiness. After all, the first requirement I have of a librarian is being able to stare at her. Not knowledge about books or the library, or anything pointless like that.
(Also, why the hostility against dustbunnies? Cats love them! Geez.)
He goes beyond what anyone else ever has in so many ways (for one thing, he has a lesbian couple without it being a gay show)Wow, ER will be astonished to hear that. Or NYPD Blue. Or The Wire. Or Babylon 5. Or even bloody Northern Exposure.(She does nowhere say that it is about doing it the earliest, ( ... )
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At one of my jobs, I have to wear indoor shoes, which happens to be wooden slippers because that's what I had at hand. They're good for reaching shelves but SCARY when I have to walk down the cellar stairs. I can't imagine having high heels.
Of course, I'm one of the people who thinks that Joss is good, but also seriously overrated, so I guess I'm just not seeing how his lesbian couple(s) is/are just specialer?
Everything Joss does is specialer always. That's #1 on the list.
Rose: did you by any chance have any exposure to rabid Rose/Doctor shippers during Season 2?Yeah, he was called Russell T. Davies. *g* Mainly, it was just the way Rose became more and more this Special Person to the Doctor (which was carried on in season 3). In season 1, I had the feeling that as much as he liked her, she could have ( ... )
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O.O Being a legendary klutz - and not in the adorable Mary Sue sense, more in the Whoops, was that a Ming vase? sense - I feel and fear for you.
Everything Joss does is specialer always. That's #1 on the list.
Speaking of #1, one part that made me raise my eyebrows in somewhat amused resignation - when he writes about rabid Whedonites, there is that passage about crazy shippers, who are described as "shawl-wearing, cat-owning knitting enthusiasts." Of course, I don't wear shawls, but should I ever meet the man, I have to enlighten him on my thoughts on shipping. Preferably with the help of a cat and/or knitting needle.
Yeah, he was called Russell T. Davies. *g*You know, I so managed to ignore that. My default thinking was simply: Oh, well, she's a companion, she'll leave at some point like all the others. It seems I even managed to overhear text passages? In Season 3, I was annoyed that Martha was hung up on Ten, mostly because I felt that such ( ... )
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Yeah, that bit did have me rolling my eyes.
But I never clued in that the text was trying to tell me Ten didn't notice her because he was hung up on dear Rosita.
Wow, really? I felt there was a "Rose!" every other episode... or maybe I was just put off by "The Shakespeare Code" with its Rose-would-have and Rose-as-the-magic-word.
And I agree, Nine needed Rose and possibly Jack, and Ten needed Martha, but most of all he needed Donna.
Ten needed Donna like whoah.
It's kind of interesting, that, which companions work well in a transfer to the next Doctors and which don't.
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I remember being at a ball once and getting blisters all over, to which the guy I was currently dancing with said, "That's silly. You knew you were going to dance, you should have worn comfortable shoes!" To which I laughed and explained that ball shoes for women are NEVER comfortable. Which is why I don't tend to wear them to work.
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