TV meme, day 7 (also, Women are Awesome)

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Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV showHmm, there are several good contenders for this one. When Farscape succeeds, it succeeds dramatically, but the flip side is that it can also fail pretty spectacularly. This may be an unpopular fannish opinion, but I actually think "Jeremiah Crichton" is probably the best of the terrible eps--

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That is an extremely interesting passage. It really does seem incredible how few female-centric plots there are, doesn't it, and, perhaps more interesting, how little we think about it most of the time?

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I think because we've been so acclimated to this state of affairs, we have to really make ourselves stop and pay attention. And what's particularly sad is that things are not a great deal better now than they were in 1929 when VW was writing that.

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You've never read A Room??????????? Get to it, then! Major feminist classic! (And it's pretty short and very accessible.) I don't agree with every word by a long shot, and it's very much the product of its time and of Woolf's particular class context, but much of it is absolutely splendid.

And they are Lie to Me characters, and I suspect the audience for that fic will be miniscule because a lot of that fandom likes to hate on Zoe, and I have no interest in that because I think she's kind of fabulous. But it's a fic I've been craving, even if I'm the only person who cares!

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The thing about Woolf is that she's so varied. Some Woolf is rather difficult--The Waves can be downright inaccessible even to people who are used to reading dense, experimental fiction, and even Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse (both of which I adore) demand a certain...concentration commitment, perhaps, that a lot of books do not. But there is other Woolf that is very accessible, and A Room of One's Own is among them, I think. It was originally written as a lecture and then revised for book publication, so there's a certain conversational style to it, for instance.

But I am certainly willing to accept that there are certain authors that just don't work for people. I believe that George Eliot, for instance, is probably the best Victorian novelist by a number of different measuring sticks, but that doesn't mean I've ever enjoyed one of her novels (or indeed, been able to finish them in several instances).