Fanvid RecSo, I found this a while back, forget now who or what community linked me to this video originally, but I wanted to promote it to all of you
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When I first saw this post, I assumed you were talking about "Glorious," which you should also check out. This vid was really cool; thanks for linking!
Ooh, that is a good one! I always like a good, well-edited fanvid. And multi-fandom vids just seem to be exponentially more awesome, simply for the scope of what they're doing, you know?
A friend and I went to see Taken two weeks ago and were so angry at the potrail of women in it. When afterwards we tried to name positive role models we had a really hard time, and were a bit depressed by that. We were trying to limit ourselves to non sci-fi/ fantasy since it would be nice if girls/ women had roll models that were strong and cool in this world, now, instead of something that will just happen in the future.
Hmm, you’re talking about modern-day females without special abilities who aren’t dealing with unrealistic experiences like magic or monsters or men from outer space?
Wow, that IS tough.
Who'd you come up with?
Are we talking TV or movies or both?
Let me see what I can do:
In addition to Dani Reese (Life); Abby and Ziva (NCIS); Tami Taylor (FNL); Garcia, JJ, and Prentiss (Criminal Minds); ...
~ Gillian Foster, (Lie To Me) Okay, the show has only had four episodes, and there’s foreshadowing that she might be the unsuspecting doting wife of a philandering husband, so we’ll have to see where that goes. But she’s a full partner to the series lead (which is kinda like being qualified enough to run a medical consulting firm with House), so she clearly knows her stuff. And, unlike him, she doesn’t allow her ability to see through people’s lies and manipulations to make her cynical and bitter. In fact, she has a delightfully cheery and upbeat attitude, *without* being a saccharine Pollyanna. Although she wears feminine clothing, she
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I have watched it quite a few times in the last week.
Speaking of awesome women characters, omoo just inspired me! I think I want to do some sort of a post challenging people to think of and recognize positive fictional female role models who are in a realistic world like our own (i.e. no special powers, no future or historical, no magic, monsters, or men from Mars).
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(I've never done something like this before - so please go help me get it started!)
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A friend and I went to see Taken two weeks ago and were so angry at the potrail of women in it. When afterwards we tried to name positive role models we had a really hard time, and were a bit depressed by that. We were trying to limit ourselves to non sci-fi/ fantasy since it would be nice if girls/ women had roll models that were strong and cool in this world, now, instead of something that will just happen in the future.
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Wow, that IS tough.
Who'd you come up with?
Are we talking TV or movies or both?
Let me see what I can do:
In addition to Dani Reese (Life); Abby and Ziva (NCIS); Tami Taylor (FNL); Garcia, JJ, and Prentiss (Criminal Minds); ...
~ Gillian Foster, (Lie To Me) Okay, the show has only had four episodes, and there’s foreshadowing that she might be the unsuspecting doting wife of a philandering husband, so we’ll have to see where that goes. But she’s a full partner to the series lead (which is kinda like being qualified enough to run a medical consulting firm with House), so she clearly knows her stuff. And, unlike him, she doesn’t allow her ability to see through people’s lies and manipulations to make her cynical and bitter. In fact, she has a delightfully cheery and upbeat attitude, *without* being a saccharine Pollyanna. Although she wears feminine clothing, she ( ... )
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Speaking of awesome women characters, omoo just inspired me! I think I want to do some sort of a post challenging people to think of and recognize positive fictional female role models who are in a realistic world like our own (i.e. no special powers, no future or historical, no magic, monsters, or men from Mars).
What do you think?
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