Comments | twirlandswirl: Feminist Supremacist

twirlandswirl

Feminist Supremacist

Mar 27, 2008 05:22

I'll be honest, I was at a loss of what to write. I had several ideas- and likely good ones- but I just didn't have the motivation to write them. I'd said it all before, really. I was afraid to branch and and try something new because stepping so far outside my "comfort zone" and getting shot down would be too painful. Plus, I wasn't sure I ( Read more... )

ethics, lj idol entries- season 4

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magnus50000 March 27 2008, 16:36:58 UTC

As noted above, does the writer of this garbage you linked to not notice how in Zoe and Wash's marriage, she's the one wearing the pants? Or as you noted, how River basically kicks everyone's ass, including Jayne, or how she thoroughly outsmarts Early?

puppetmaker40 March 27 2008, 17:20:23 UTC

Considering that Whedon's best known character is still Buffy, I find this strange at best.

Fans will twist anything to make a point. Hella, Peter just got accused for being a racist because of something that he won a GLAAD award for showing gay people realistically.

People like this have an agenda and no amount of logic is gonna shake it.

But you wrote a kicking essay.

chazari March 27 2008, 19:30:07 UTC

Reading that article was painful. The writer seems unable to see context and relationships. Mal's comments about Kaylee ("Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.") is so different when watching the show and seeing the affection he has for her. You see the teasing. The author misses that and misses it with other arguments.

And her definition of rape is disgusting at best. The whole article was disturbing, but your rebuttal was well done.

kathrynrose March 29 2008, 13:19:13 UTC

I couldn't read the whole thing. It's like she never saw the show, she just read the scripts and took the words completely at face value.

It reveals her biggest flaw. She is black and white. She sees no shades of grey, no complexities, no shadowing.

woo. kate is analytical this morning.

anonymous March 27 2008, 19:59:03 UTC

No rational person can plausibly argue with this. Bravo.

The only danger in discussing comments such as "all heterosexual sex is rape" is that it may dignify absurdity with logic when, in fact, it is almost impossible to know where to begin to underscore the stupidity, the misogny and the misandry of such a comment.

But you pull it off beautifully.

leora March 27 2008, 23:01:35 UTC

I was pointed to that post from somewhere else, and I had to stop reading as soon as she talked about Inara being raped, when Inara has consensual sex that she was fully in control of ( ... )