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 {how amazing is storm's hair?!}

 
totally badass. something to be very happy and excited about. pow pow!! nerd power, yo! whizz pop!

* all female x-men book with a writer who seems to have a solid handle on being awesome.

happy friday, my mutants.

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 oooooooooo! celebrity drams or whatever!

time to jump on the bandwagon and start a discussion of aaron sorkin's newest vehicle, 'the newsroom'. hoooray and hooorah! i love tv!

i'll say it once more. i love tv. really and truly. and i'm really enjoying 'the newsroom'. i look forward to sunday nights. but that doesn't mean it is a gooood show - i love a lot of bad tv. backstory:

i've never seen 'west wing'. but i have every intention of watching the whole thing basically in one sitting one day. (mono? can i have you again?) everyone smart and funny and great iknow loves west wing. so. i bet it is pretty amazeballs.

i loooooved 'sports night'. which wasn't around nearly long enough if you ask me. heartbreak.

and i was suuuper excited for 'the newsroom'. until this happened...

* aaron sorkin is rude to one of my favourites and internet girls everywhere furrow their brows

so i thought 'shoot. that doesn't seem very cool beans. sorkin seems to be a bit of an asshat... poop.' but, you know. separate the art from the artist *to a point* and go on living.

and after the pilot episode, sarah-roommate and i had a great chat about how haha, the women were actually pretty freaking great and the super-powerful-white-men-with-their-ideals were pretty reliant on the women who were competent and smart and got shit done. blah blah. not bad. okay!

but. as the show has gone on a few more episodes, the female characters are getting weaker... flakier. manipulate-able. really good at one thing or another, but then pretty crappy at, you know, being well-rounded living things. and ooooh how sad i was when jim 'rescued' maggie from her panic attack. damn it! damn! ugh. i was so hopeful for their relationship and then he went and tooook caaare of her.

anyway. what it comes down to is that i like the show. but also, maybe, aaron sorkin's not-so-developped idea of women is showing. and that's a real shame. or...

* the newsroom is incredibly hostile towards women

poop.

but here's a fun thing! i sure do love a meme.

* hey internet girl...

(also. one more thing. quickly. i'm glad that this trend of scrutinizing shows has emerged. you know. like it did with 'girls' and 'bunheads', both of which i love. too. and obviously this sort of conversation could be happening around a TON of shows, and maybe maybe maybe it will start to spread, and, omg, things will improve!!!??? it could happen. so. i'm glad.)

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why do i feel the need to talk and talk and talk about feminism? and yell and shout and scream about things that seem maybe small and unimportant to y'all. because. of stuff like this:

* the kind of violence done to women speaking their minds online

this woman. she says 'hey! let's create some multi-dimentional female characters in gaming!' and she gets bullied and attacked and harrassed. hooooray! and this shouldn't happen ever ever ever. as long as there are whole collections of human-people who think this is an okay response, i'm-a keep talkin'. because there are a million horrible things out there, sure. but we have to start small. or. smallish. and the deep-seeded level of hatred that is bred into our western perspective on women these days is baaaad. and we cannot improve things, truly, without beginning there. shaking and breaking it up. okay! that's all for this week. i hope you'll really think on it.

happy friday!

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