I think Joss Whedon is amazing. Not just for Firefly, either, but because he's one of the few guys who Gets It.
Seriously, one thing I love about Firefly is that none of the female characters are your typical sci-fi women. They're not superfluous eyecandy, they're not weak little things who don't do much, they exist more than to be sexual and to provide relationship drama to the show. They're intelligent and well-defined and different from one another and they're comfortable with who they are. They aren't afraid of men.
And even moreso-- Mal- who is a heartthrob and gorgeous and smart and awesome- isn't attracted to women who he has power over. He goes for strong independant women who don't just submit to him. Yet he doesn't take advantage of women who have been screwed over and who have the whole submission thing going on. And he has female friends who aren't token (ie. Zoe). In short, he sees women as human beings, and as his equals.
Heart of Gold is one of my favourite episodes for a whole heap of reasons, but the standout one
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are saintly or anything Exactly. No one who Gets It is some kind of super-human saint, understanding the poor and put upon downtrodden unfortunates but is a normal functional adult human being.
Down in the billion or so comments someone mentions that sexism is just another in the long line of crap behaviour coming from intolerance towards the Different, or those who choose to be different. Transexuals, bi people, gay people, religious people, non religious people, women who don't shave their legs because it's not important to them, little boys who like dying their hair. All of them have the right to choose their own path. Honour killings/suicides, football hooliganism, fanatics who use violence for the sake of it will attack them all for the same reasons.
If a sci-fi TV show or a book has crap female characters it tends to loose me fairly quickly just on the fact it's filled with crap characters. Joss could just as easily make some crappy genderised exploitative shows where women are just T&A That's what FOX wanted when he made
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Me too. The 'entertainment' level of her murder just leaves me speechless and horrified homicidal.
I would have thought that at some point in the comments that it might have come across as religious or racial stereotyping but it came across that the posters are aware that it is a world wide and cross cultural problem that exists everywhere. I can think of at least two times I have heard on the news of violence against girls being filmed in Melbourne.
Joss is love. My brain is going phut not knowing what to say. But it's wrong that such a thing should be allowed to continue, or even exist at all. To be called an "Honor Killing"
Joss is a remarkable being, for all the things that come out of that brain of his. A man who can write something like that is just ..gives me hope. I'm stunned by the fact there's a person like him.
We need to have a biiig Melbourne flocking to the Can't Stop the Serenity screening. It's a screening of Serenity in a cinema here where all proceeds go to 'Equality Now' Joss's favourite charity. They work for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women.
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Seriously, one thing I love about Firefly is that none of the female characters are your typical sci-fi women. They're not superfluous eyecandy, they're not weak little things who don't do much, they exist more than to be sexual and to provide relationship drama to the show. They're intelligent and well-defined and different from one another and they're comfortable with who they are. They aren't afraid of men.
And even moreso-- Mal- who is a heartthrob and gorgeous and smart and awesome- isn't attracted to women who he has power over. He goes for strong independant women who don't just submit to him. Yet he doesn't take advantage of women who have been screwed over and who have the whole submission thing going on. And he has female friends who aren't token (ie. Zoe). In short, he sees women as human beings, and as his equals.
Heart of Gold is one of my favourite episodes for a whole heap of reasons, but the standout one ( ... )
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Exactly. No one who Gets It is some kind of super-human saint, understanding the poor and put upon downtrodden unfortunates but is a normal functional adult human being.
Down in the billion or so comments someone mentions that sexism is just another in the long line of crap behaviour coming from intolerance towards the Different, or those who choose to be different. Transexuals, bi people, gay people, religious people, non religious people, women who don't shave their legs because it's not important to them, little boys who like dying their hair. All of them have the right to choose their own path. Honour killings/suicides, football hooliganism, fanatics who use violence for the sake of it will attack them all for the same reasons.
If a sci-fi TV show or a book has crap female characters it tends to loose me fairly quickly just on the fact it's filled with crap characters. Joss could just as easily make some crappy genderised exploitative shows where women are just T&A That's what FOX wanted when he made ( ... )
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I would have thought that at some point in the comments that it might have come across as religious or racial stereotyping but it came across that the posters are aware that it is a world wide and cross cultural problem that exists everywhere.
I can think of at least two times I have heard on the news of violence against girls being filmed in Melbourne.
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Joss is a remarkable being, for all the things that come out of that brain of his. A man who can write something like that is just ..gives me hope. I'm stunned by the fact there's a person like him.
We need to have a biiig Melbourne flocking to the Can't Stop the Serenity screening. It's a screening of Serenity in a cinema here where all proceeds go to 'Equality Now' Joss's favourite charity. They work for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women.
http://www.serenitymelbourne.blogspot.com/
http://www.equalitynow.com
http://cantstoptheserenity.com/
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Thank you for the links.
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