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Oh my god, it's like familypalooza around these parts. I'm attempting to do some catch up with my coffee this morning, but dear lord. My eldest brother arrived with his three kids shortly after my mother left, and will be here for another week. My kid got here a few days ago for an extended visit. And my father and his wife are also here up at the main house for their regular summer visit. I love them all. I'm also just about ready to chuck them all in the ocean and move to an even more secluded cabin higher in the mountains without leaving a forwarding address. :)
Fannishly, the kiddo and I are watching both the original series Star Trek (because it turns out I am a horrible parent and he's never seen it, I don't even know how that happened), and Vampire Diaries (which neither of us have seen, and which I will have Many Thoughts about coming soon).
Was also trying to make heads or tails of the recent Mark Watches wank I saw mentioned on my f'list (back when I was doing my last BtVS rewatch someone pointed me there, but I found his reviews kinda boring and didn't go back until now). And really, mostly my reaction to the whole thing after wading through a large chunk of it...other than wondering if I've been transported by time machine to 2001. Well, can someone tell my why I should give a single bag of dicks what a man thinks I should think, feel, or how I should process rape culture and feminist readings of text? Or why my reaction to him shutting down, dismissing, shaming, and yelling at women attempting to relate their own experiences with same as MRA rape apologists because he somehow understands feminist theory as it relates to their lives better than they do with anything other than disgusted scorn and a heaping help of 'shut the fuck up'? Because I can't think of a single one. I never got into his site because he bored me. Now I never will because he's an asshole. There, that's sorted.
And now I hear a horde of tiny children outside my door so I need to go be Auntly for awhile. <3 to you all.
Fannishly, the kiddo and I are watching both the original series Star Trek (because it turns out I am a horrible parent and he's never seen it, I don't even know how that happened), and Vampire Diaries (which neither of us have seen, and which I will have Many Thoughts about coming soon).
Was also trying to make heads or tails of the recent Mark Watches wank I saw mentioned on my f'list (back when I was doing my last BtVS rewatch someone pointed me there, but I found his reviews kinda boring and didn't go back until now). And really, mostly my reaction to the whole thing after wading through a large chunk of it...other than wondering if I've been transported by time machine to 2001. Well, can someone tell my why I should give a single bag of dicks what a man thinks I should think, feel, or how I should process rape culture and feminist readings of text? Or why my reaction to him shutting down, dismissing, shaming, and yelling at women attempting to relate their own experiences with same as MRA rape apologists because he somehow understands feminist theory as it relates to their lives better than they do with anything other than disgusted scorn and a heaping help of 'shut the fuck up'? Because I can't think of a single one. I never got into his site because he bored me. Now I never will because he's an asshole. There, that's sorted.
And now I hear a horde of tiny children outside my door so I need to go be Auntly for awhile. <3 to you all.
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I somehow hadn't heard about the Mark douchebag, but I pretty much never give a single bag of dicks what any dude thinks about anything to do with feminism or rape culture. They can all STFU as far as I'm concerned.
Enjoy familypalooza!
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Also, I loooooove The Vampire Diaries,so I'll definitely be looking forward to your thoughts. Especially since all I can seem to manage are incoherent noises of glee and love for the characters.
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\o/ Vampire Diaries. I suspect my thoughts will be shallow and involve a lot of capslock.
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My favourite characters are Damon and Caroline (unexpectedly). She's my new Cordy.
I need icons.
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The moment at which I ragequit and closed the tab with extreme prejudice lest I put my fist through the monitor was when a woman tried to explain why it was important to her to interpret the alley scene as Buffy having both agency and acknowledged superior physical strength (and remember this is in a discussion about Smashed NOT Seeing Red). And Mark was mansplaining away about rape culture and consent in between his vicious and intimidating invective towards anyone who wasn't toeing his party line. Because he knows the first goddamn thing about what it feels like to be a woman alone in an aggressive situation with a man. Because his experiences as a man in an abusive relationship means he understands these things much better than those ladyfolk who are just rape apologists (remember, Smashed NOT Seeing Red) and MRAs who don't understand his paaaaain, and really, shouldn't discussions about feminist readings of female characters in situations he will NEVER EXPERIENCE be all about him?
*pantpantpant* Yup, I'm still goddamn angry. I mean, I am doomed to be ever frustrated that it's impossible to have any kind of nuanced conversation about Spike/Spuffy circa season 6 without a) having to 'choose a side' when b) both 'sides' have a tendency to act like utter vile assholes. I have resigned myself to this fact, and would have shrugged and whatever...but OMG I discovered I have new wellsprings of RAGE when a dude decides to weigh in with his superior dudley knowledge about life as a woman in rape culture and how we should follow his lead on how to respond to it because it's all about him. Fuck him.