Comments | mariness: Apparently my word "Stop" wasn't heard the first time

mariness

Apparently my word "Stop" wasn't heard the first time

Apr 20, 2011 10:40

To Ginia Bellafonte of the New York Times:

STOP.

Seriously, again, STOP.

I mean, yes, it's great that you took a moment to respond to the overwhelming criticism of your condescending "women don't read fantasy" review. It's not great that your response included this::As I wrote in the review, I realize that there are women who love fantasy, but I ( Read more... )

gender, game of thrones, new york times

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wendigomountain April 20 2011, 15:37:18 UTC

What you said at the end is a very nice comparison to what is happening here. Kids made the girls play Leia back in the day because they couldn't get past the primary characters of the Star Wars movies. There's an entire GALAXY out there, full of males and females, and likely every shade in-between. Why couldn't we just make up a new character? "I'm Lora Yeno, hot-shot smuggler and Jedi."

The reason? Immaturity of thinking. Just like Ms. Bellafonte has. She's still of the mind that just because SHE doesn't do something, no one else does either. What a clown.

wyldemusick April 20 2011, 20:51:07 UTC

Long ago I had a very good friend who cosplayed Han Solo's mother. This was back around the time of Empire...and her cosplaying smuggler's crew in matching Corellian outfits? 18 year old girls.

So.

wendigomountain April 20 2011, 20:57:22 UTC

Brilliant! Sure beats the hell out of an army of Slave Leia's.

mariness April 20 2011, 21:16:41 UTC

:: nods :: And that's a problematic way to view anything, largely because no two people are going to agree 100% on everything. (Demonstrating the point right now, for instance, one of my neighbors believes much more strongly in loud music than I do.)

ravena_kade April 20 2011, 15:38:40 UTC

I find her responce even more insulting than her review.

mariness April 20 2011, 21:21:17 UTC

I found parts rather bewildering. I mean, she was criticized, justly, for attempting to compare Game of Thrones with The Hobbit, Lorrie Moore, and Sex in the City, and she follows this up with....comparisons to House????

I mean, what? This is what we call missing the original message.

Random fact... mdg1 April 20 2011, 15:39:17 UTC

Princess Leia never misses a shot in the entire trilogy. Not that this excuses gender-assigned Star Wars play.

(OTOH, due to my social status, I was always stuck playing R2D2. Probably because, at 8, my peers weren't savvy enough to realize he was the chessmaster behind the entire plot :) )

Re: Random fact... mariness April 20 2011, 21:22:44 UTC

I'm not saying she wasn't cool. Thing is, SHE DIDN'T HAVE A SPACESHIP. I WANTED A SPACESHIP.

I didn't want to be a Jedi, either. I wanted to have a spaceship and be all cool like Han Solo and have robots and a large walking talking teddy bear. Ok, I get that the robots were mostly following Luke around, but Han Solo did work with some other robots so that counted.

Re: Random fact... mdg1 April 20 2011, 23:07:05 UTC

Blue Max! Bollux!

cardinalximinez April 21 2011, 10:58:18 UTC

She had a spaeship. It got impounded by the fuzz.

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bayushi April 20 2011, 19:18:45 UTC

It's making me want to register, SOLELY to comment.

mariness April 20 2011, 21:24:45 UTC

Well, that's only because, if I recall correctly, you're a House fan.

In fact, gasp, I am thinking - aren't you a nearly impossible person who watches House, reads that quietly (not all that quietly) hewn domestic novel Anne of Green Gables AND is obsessed with Spider Robinson? Do you, in fact, exist? Now I wonder.

bayushi April 21 2011, 14:28:18 UTC

I'm starting to wonder if I exist, since I also like Grey's Anatomy AND Supernatural. I may not, in fact, exist.

bogwitch64 April 20 2011, 19:57:56 UTC

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mariness April 20 2011, 21:25:00 UTC

Thanks :)