(This post mostly triggered by seeing this article linked to again today.)

I've been semi-following articles rehashing the "omg we need more boy books! boys can't read pink books or books with girls on the cover! think of the poor little boys!" thing, or the gender disparity in reviews/awards/acclaims for books, and well, gender issues in general as ( Read more... )

Some not-random but entirely unsubstantiated thoughts on last night's Castle episode. (Spoilers, sort of.)

So that was a meaty episode. Awhile ago I wondered to Geoff if Castle was going to take on the Occupy movement in an episode, being in NYC and all. I thought it should, because Castle's a pretty wonderfully meta show to begin with, and ( Read more... )

This is an entry I have been wanting to write for a long time. I've been holding off because I'm pretty angry about it, and I wanted to be less defensive and able to write with more objectivity. But y'know, not sure that is ever going to happen, so here goes.

This entry is about The Big Bang Theory, specifically Amy Farrah Fowler. To start off with ( Read more... )

I've plateaued -- ew, that looks ugly. I've hit a plateau with writing, and it's frustrating me. Twice now, I have had a dramatic increase in my writing skills, once about six or seven years ago and one about three years ago. Both times, over the course of a few months, something just clicked into place and when I looked back at pieces I wrote even ( Read more... )

This post brought to you by today's flurry of outrage at NYT's article on Game of Thrones, which says that Game of Thrones is "boy fiction" that has had sex added in a desperate bid to appeal to women. (I won't even get started on whether or not I think that would work, because the basic premise is so very flawed. Out of my circle of writing/ ( Read more... )

Jim Hines posted today about media coverage of rape. How it too often sensationalizes and fantasizes rape. How it far too often blames the victims. The latter is what I want to talk about. Please don't read further if you don't want to read about it.

Victim blaming is far too prevalent in our culture. I have met people who work in the system that is ( Read more... )

I have so much to post about, and I've been aching to post a kitty post (yes, we got a kitten!) but the last few days have been extra full. Mostly with the kitten, but also school and life stuff. And this post is not the kitten post. Sorry. I usually have a big fight with lj whenever I try and post pictures (I dunno why, I'm not so tech savvy) and ( Read more... )

I had a lovely weekend. My cousin's wedding was gorgeous; the service was held out on a terrace and the weather was everything they could have wished for. It was a great time. The rest of the weekend was spent catching up with family, which means lots of drinks, lots of stories, and lots of bad jokes. Good times.

What I'd more like to talk about in ( Read more... )

I don't want to be a teacher. Those of you on my f-list who know me in person know that I'm generally a shy, soft-spoken person, and probably suspect that's the reason why. It is, but not the only reason. Sure, speaking to several people at once, and having many pairs of eyes on me usually makes me turn bright red (really, really bright red) but ( Read more... )

Open memo to 2009 ( Read more... )