rarr.

[lyssie]

I was reminded, a second ago, that I was reading a transcript of an Amanda Tapping interview, and she made some comment about how "Sam is defined by her relationships" and how she thinks that's great and needs to be explored more.

Dear Ms. Tapping, please tell me you were saying that to piss people off. Love, Lyssie, who is NOT defined by her relationships and thinks that saying Sam is basically makes her a stock Romance Novel Heroine and pointless. Unless you really feel that way, in which case, you are now added to the list of actresses who are stupid as fuck.

sigh. No wonder people keep saying Sam is no longer a Strong Woman.

eta: So... Women are defined by their relationships to people and men are defined by their dick length?

Seriously. I've never heard of male characters defined by their relationship to other characters. (and, in the end, at this point, ONLY SAM)

eta2: *eyes LR and Liz* Did you two go to Vegas and get married by Elvis and not tell the rest of us?

eta3: Instead of saying the same thing to, ah, five (six?) different people: I'll accept that men and women are defined by their relationships. I just suspect I've never seen it applied anywhere until now which pushes my hot button. Not the exact wording at least.

Especially fictional men and women, because they are only what we see on the screen/read on the page.

Cable, for instance, can be defined by his relationships to women, to his father, to his mother (and her clone), to his future and--*digresses*. Sam is defined by Cassie, Jack, Daniel, Janet, Teal'c, Hammond, her dad, Mark, her mom... etc.

Comments

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

Shut it! We're feminists ... okay, I AM... and therein this is NOT just cuz we're women!!! ... I kinda agree with you though as I feel very LACKING as I don't have a boy telling me what to do anymore.... and I hate myself for this fact

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I love it when I tease you and it works. But I'll stop now, or else you will retaliate. *sits on hands*

You let boys tell you what to do? I always thought it was supposed to be the other way around. I mean, I *let* them think they're telling me what to do, but then I control them with my insidious eye-batting powerz.

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

*SHAMED*

Yes, I've allowed men to tell me what to do. And then I turn around and tell them what to do as well, but it's never a proper give and take. Obviously by my stupid need for someone to cuddle me at night and tell me what to do so i can get angry withthem and do the opposite thing. *is stupid, often*

YAY! for insidious flirty powers. Mine is my smile. *gleeeee*

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

... *thinks about it*

Actually, I do let boys tell me what to do in the relationship. Just... not so much in my own life. Of course, all decisions are ratified by polling of random strangers and acquaintances, so ultimately it doesn't matter. :)

*cannot make decisions independently omg* Livejournal is a bad, bad indulgence for someone like me that way. ;)

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

The delightful thing there is that I run the relationship, they run my life. Josh basically helped me form my career plan, John did by telling me not to do what I'm doing/going to do, Ryan helped by generally mocking me, etc. Stupid boys. They hae their uses.

Life Decisions are totally depedent on LJ polls which include the "omg! a poll! squee!" option.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

*points up at Lyssie's ETA*

We'll probably have to have an LJ poll before we actually get married then.

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

*reads*

Ah. Not Vegas. No Elvis. I think we can only go to Massachusetts, right?

And yes to the poll. Plus, flists can help make decisions on wedding colors and honeymoon locations, etc. *sniggers*

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

See, it's things like this that make me hesitant to leave the bastion of sin state of Massachusetts. ;)

Yes! Bwah. We can let LJ name our pets, too. We can have sinful goldfish of love! (But must keep them separate from my current evil Russian goldfish, or they will get et.)