Entertaining in a Disturbing Way

My brain cannot explain how awesome it thinks this is

No, no, I think a big reason is that it's multi-lingual and that just blows me away (with how awesome it is).

The usage of female sexual power by men in movies to turn them into caricatures (and thus make them safe), a la Jessica Rabbit and Cool World. Seriously. I don't need to be waking from a half-doze and thinking about that (and arguing with the people in my head)

Also, I want to talk about this femslash fic that turned up the other day, and how it reduces women to shallow, vapid people who are only interesting when they're titillating men (and doing it only for the sake of the men, too). But I do not have the time before work. But seriously? Erasing the idea that women can be attracted to each other for the sake of attraction is rather rude. (note to pseudo-femslashers: women kissing women is never wrong, and women having sexualities not defined by men isn't wrong, either)

In the meantime, have some St. Trinian's/Doctor Who ficlet.
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"But we're not gonna throw women under the bus to give them an agreement to keep this government open."

Dear Democratic women senators, you fucking rock.

SG-1 fandom, you are full of stupid. Sam Carter is not a ruined, useless, character because, one time, she had a thing for a male in her vicinity.

Seriously. If you think she spent x number of seasons pining for Jack, shut the fuck up and think about how stupid you sound. (why can't I punch stupid people through the internets?)

In the files of "Fandom needs to stop claiming it doesn't hate women" we have:

1. Supernatural fandom with a tumblr for killing off the last woman standing on the show.

2. ONTD hating on women while trying to sound fashionable and cool. (note, the original article is also a source of stfu, stupid people)

For those wondering, Yes, the Ladython is still going BOTH versions, in fact

eta: I meant to add that Megan has some very awesome icons *copy/pastes her list*

39 x Allison to Lillia (Allison arc)
27 x Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge
45 x Fairies of Liao Zhai/ Liao Zhai Qi Nu Zi (Lian Cheng arc)
19 x Florence Nightingale (biopic)
27 x Foyle's War (series 7)
30 x Ryoko's Case Files
30 x St. Trinian's School For Bad Girls
48 x St. Trinian's: The Search For Fritton's Gold

1. We... tried to watch Whiteout. It starts with the heroine stripping off, waggling her ass at the camera and taking a shower. Not a promising start. Unfortunately, the most interesting thing in the ten minutes that we managed to watch was the opening scene with the plane crash. What a pity that it wasn't about archeologists finding it or something interesting like that. Instead, it seemed to be a mish-mash of people walking in the snow and the heroine, um, being ridiculously bland and silent. Oh, and obtrusive, ridiculous, flashbacks. To be fair, I stopped giving it my full intention when Tom Skerrit walked in on the lead and they had a conversation while she wore a clingy robe. Daria was far more interesting and had women.

2. Castle. I... felt it was horribly contrived and, well, insulting.
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Loosely based on the 89-90 revival series that was intensely awful, but occasionally amusing. A team of agents is gathered to take secret missions to maintain the Status Quo and thwart terrorism in all its guises. Led by a retired agent, the team of youngsters swiftly learns to respect age and experience while carving their own niche in the world of spies.

( And, as always, Jen, should any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions... )

1. Your fandom has four women on the side of the angels, one on the side of the demons and a good half-dozen extra on either side with bit parts. You're challenged to write 'women saving the day'. Do you:
a. write any of the five main women doing just that,
b. write one of the bit parts,
c. write about a female cat clawing the face off the one bad woman,
d. write about the women having to manipulate the men into saving the day,
e. write about Avon's Magic Cock.

Answers on a postcard, please.
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1. I keep meaning to say this and forgetting: one of the things about Sanctuary that I sort of approve of is the whole "older woman mentors younger boy" thing. You don't see it often. In fact, the only other time I remember seeing it is in Animaniacs. Slappy Squirrel and Skippy. Which then leads me to the far happier thought of Helen Magnus mentoring Skippy (and Will getting blown up by Slappy a lot).

It would sort of be like Seven and Ace, but gender-swapped and without the time travel. Probably.

2. I tried to listen to some 4.5 BSG earlier in the week, and my immediate loathing and inability to enjoy it leads me to one conclusion: 4.5 was really shit.

3. Having run out of Nero Wolfe but being lazy and not having bundled and mu'd it, I did the unthinkable and ripped Peacekeeper Wars last night. I may not have a brain after work (I'm taking Self-Inflicted Wounds, too) [That's Farscape, for those O.o ing]

4. There is a trope I loathe, if that's what it can be called. It was sort of obliquely touched upon in f!s last night, where people were talking about why they don't like what the writers on Bones are doing to her character.

It's this: the idea that a woman has to fix herself so she can be with a man. In Bones, Brennan has to get over her issues so she can become Booth's ideal woman (there's never any inference that he is wrong and has to change his worldview for her). In NCIS, Ziva has to become a more docile, womanly-girly-girl to be Tony's kind of woman (she rarely gets to win in joke/argument contests these days). In BSG, Kara has to fix herself so she can be with Lee (or Sam, though canon rarely showed us Sam telling her she was a screw-up, and Collaborators was supposed to be Trucco's last episode). In In Plain Sight Mary has to get over her issues so she can be with Marshall or Raph (as much as I like Raph, he does sort of see her as someone she's not--and she returns the favor, not really knowing him, either).

Those are not the only examples, I'm fairly certain I could go on for pages. Sometimes, it's the fandom that puts this idea out there. But usually, it's the canon. These flawed women aren't good enough to catch a man, so they should fix themselves. Because catching a man is the only goal they should have.

And there should never be a man who has to fix himself for a woman.

Well. Maybe Leverage will screw that trope over, too.