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Jun. 8th, 2008 06:26 pmI want these jobs.
I wouldn't mind acting. Like, maybe never, but you gotta admit, it sounds like a lotta fun.
But the SFX and those prosthetics... JESUS yes.
How un-friggin-believably cool would it be to make a manged leg out of a plastic femur, silicone, and panty hose?
I am so in.
Just... not like those art department chicks. God, they're the reason I'm not gonna join a sorority.
Actually confronting that kinda... existance is the reason why I never actually find Dean's apparent misogyny all that offensive. Hell, I don't even consider him to be that misogynistic. Dean just has to deal with a lot of ignorant females, and if he's not screwing them, they're a liability.
I know, I know, thats pretty much the definition of a misogynist, but think about it. He has a job. He does his job. And he really doesn't want someone that he can't trust (read: someone other than Sam) mucking things up, getting themselves, or him, killed. And more times than not, its a chick whos wandering around, getting into trouble. You'd wanna strangle them, too!
And then theres Bela. You either loved that woman, or you hated her. I think that those two camps are kinda divided by fandom, too. If you love the idea of a chick getting a chance to play in such an awesome universe, you liked Bela. If you didn't want estrogen mucking up your slash possibilities, you didn't like her.
So the fact that Dean (and Sam, dream-sequence aside) hated Bela put a lot of women's backs up. How dare he keep all those possibilites to himself?! He'll be suggetsing corsets next! (note: yes, I have read a fic like that.)
I like to think of it as Buffy-syndrome. Buffy was liberating in the sense that there was a woman who could do a lot of things that men couldn't. And when you take a similar concept, but without the empowerment, the Buffys feel threatened. And if you literally add insult to injury, so much the worse! How dare he call that woman a skank?
In my mind, it comes down to the fact that sometimes women get so caught up in their own liberation that the forget that guys get the same rights as women. A man can indeed call a woman a skank, just as much as any girl could. And if you want to call a guy a woman-hating whore, thats okay, too.
Makes for good fic.
I didn't really have a point to alla this, other than to say that I really, really hate women sometimes. They give that empowerment thing a really bad name.
btw, looking up into a wall of water and saying, 'Yeah, I don't remember that being there...'?
Best. reaction. ever.
I wouldn't mind acting. Like, maybe never, but you gotta admit, it sounds like a lotta fun.
But the SFX and those prosthetics... JESUS yes.
How un-friggin-believably cool would it be to make a manged leg out of a plastic femur, silicone, and panty hose?
I am so in.
Just... not like those art department chicks. God, they're the reason I'm not gonna join a sorority.
Actually confronting that kinda... existance is the reason why I never actually find Dean's apparent misogyny all that offensive. Hell, I don't even consider him to be that misogynistic. Dean just has to deal with a lot of ignorant females, and if he's not screwing them, they're a liability.
I know, I know, thats pretty much the definition of a misogynist, but think about it. He has a job. He does his job. And he really doesn't want someone that he can't trust (read: someone other than Sam) mucking things up, getting themselves, or him, killed. And more times than not, its a chick whos wandering around, getting into trouble. You'd wanna strangle them, too!
And then theres Bela. You either loved that woman, or you hated her. I think that those two camps are kinda divided by fandom, too. If you love the idea of a chick getting a chance to play in such an awesome universe, you liked Bela. If you didn't want estrogen mucking up your slash possibilities, you didn't like her.
So the fact that Dean (and Sam, dream-sequence aside) hated Bela put a lot of women's backs up. How dare he keep all those possibilites to himself?! He'll be suggetsing corsets next! (note: yes, I have read a fic like that.)
I like to think of it as Buffy-syndrome. Buffy was liberating in the sense that there was a woman who could do a lot of things that men couldn't. And when you take a similar concept, but without the empowerment, the Buffys feel threatened. And if you literally add insult to injury, so much the worse! How dare he call that woman a skank?
In my mind, it comes down to the fact that sometimes women get so caught up in their own liberation that the forget that guys get the same rights as women. A man can indeed call a woman a skank, just as much as any girl could. And if you want to call a guy a woman-hating whore, thats okay, too.
Makes for good fic.
I didn't really have a point to alla this, other than to say that I really, really hate women sometimes. They give that empowerment thing a really bad name.
btw, looking up into a wall of water and saying, 'Yeah, I don't remember that being there...'?
Best. reaction. ever.
