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... with altogether too many things.
Work... well.
Tweet: 1123 | 373 | 660. My surprised face is in the shop.
My lifting for the last week and a half has sucked. Rest hasn't helped. Wind sprints haven't helped. Walking hasn't helped. (Eating like a normal person at the lovely belated wedding reception for friends last night didn't help, but, you know what, having a goddamned sandwich isn't the end of the world).
Tweet: "Recalcitrant Meat" is not, but should be, the title of my upcoming personal training memoir.
The meaningful shit with which I am frustrated thus enumerated, I now feel justified in going off on Stephen goddamned Moffat for sucking as a feminist, writer, and human being. I don't have the accumulated inertial nerd-rage of longtime fandom behind me, as many Whovians do, but I do have a functioning social conscience, and... dude, step away from the keyboard, and the show, before you fuck up any more.
Tweet: JESUS CHRIST IT'S A MOFFAT GET IN THE REFRIGERATOR
There are many and varied and valid criticisms of Moffat as a handwavium generator and misogynist dipshit, and it doesn't take much searching to find both academic and vitriolic criticism of his failings on both fronts, from his repeated stripping of agency to his weird fixation on The Doctor meeting companions as little girls to his dimunition of women to mere partners and birthing engines... dude, seriously, just shut the fuck up. You're not as bad as Joss Whedon, but you're approaching that same orbital zone.
In the most recent episode, "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" (s7e10 / s7.2e5 / 236, depending on how one reckons these things), there's an opportunity for an easy dismissal of a line that, upon its utterance, is misogynist on its face.
"You wouldn't understand," The Doctor says.
"It's because I'm a woman, isn't it?" Clara asks.
"Oh, no," he says.... and then gives both Clara and the viewers a look that very obviously means, "Yes, of course it is" ... when any sentient, sensitive, and mildly-informed viewer would practically be falling over themselves for the expected follow-on, "It's because you're human. Your little monkey brains... let's just file this under 'wibbly-wobbly,' eh?"
Making The Doctor a species-ist, a slightly condescending misanthrope towards our entire race, is an established part of the characterization, and is *less* offensive than actively crafting a No Doubt flavored "Just A Girl" dismissal. Though Moffat didn't write or direct the episode (Stephen Thompson and Mat King, respectively), he was the executive producer, and his input and oversight lay the blame for this at least partially on his doorstep.
Work... well.
Tweet: 1123 | 373 | 660. My surprised face is in the shop.
My lifting for the last week and a half has sucked. Rest hasn't helped. Wind sprints haven't helped. Walking hasn't helped. (Eating like a normal person at the lovely belated wedding reception for friends last night didn't help, but, you know what, having a goddamned sandwich isn't the end of the world).
Tweet: "Recalcitrant Meat" is not, but should be, the title of my upcoming personal training memoir.
The meaningful shit with which I am frustrated thus enumerated, I now feel justified in going off on Stephen goddamned Moffat for sucking as a feminist, writer, and human being. I don't have the accumulated inertial nerd-rage of longtime fandom behind me, as many Whovians do, but I do have a functioning social conscience, and... dude, step away from the keyboard, and the show, before you fuck up any more.
Tweet: JESUS CHRIST IT'S A MOFFAT GET IN THE REFRIGERATOR
There are many and varied and valid criticisms of Moffat as a handwavium generator and misogynist dipshit, and it doesn't take much searching to find both academic and vitriolic criticism of his failings on both fronts, from his repeated stripping of agency to his weird fixation on The Doctor meeting companions as little girls to his dimunition of women to mere partners and birthing engines... dude, seriously, just shut the fuck up. You're not as bad as Joss Whedon, but you're approaching that same orbital zone.
In the most recent episode, "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" (s7e10 / s7.2e5 / 236, depending on how one reckons these things), there's an opportunity for an easy dismissal of a line that, upon its utterance, is misogynist on its face.
"You wouldn't understand," The Doctor says.
"It's because I'm a woman, isn't it?" Clara asks.
"Oh, no," he says.... and then gives both Clara and the viewers a look that very obviously means, "Yes, of course it is" ... when any sentient, sensitive, and mildly-informed viewer would practically be falling over themselves for the expected follow-on, "It's because you're human. Your little monkey brains... let's just file this under 'wibbly-wobbly,' eh?"
Making The Doctor a species-ist, a slightly condescending misanthrope towards our entire race, is an established part of the characterization, and is *less* offensive than actively crafting a No Doubt flavored "Just A Girl" dismissal. Though Moffat didn't write or direct the episode (Stephen Thompson and Mat King, respectively), he was the executive producer, and his input and oversight lay the blame for this at least partially on his doorstep.
