The Blood is The Life 29-08-2012

[miss_s_b]

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• Janeway Doesn’t Deserve This Shit | Tor.com
  MMost of the comments are depressingly full of Janeway hate, but I liked this one: "At a time when most media and the world was sending me really damaging messages about what a proper woman was, Kathryn Janeway was there. Captain Janeway taught me that I could be nerdy, strong, feminine, and stubborn. I could stand my ground against others, not giving in, and still be a woman. She taught me it it was okay to battle depression and okay to fall in love, even if I lost the guy. When everyone else was telling me I was wrong, I knew Janeway would have stood with me and told them I was right. Voyager was so cool because it had such a wide variety of awesome female characters that had such different personalities, yet they were all strong women. Even when it wasn’t at its best, it was a really empowering show to grow up with."
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  Maybe the paralympics will help with this? I'm still not over the cruel irony of them being sponsored by ATOS...
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• George Galloway under fire again after calling Twitter user a 'window licker' - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
  George does it again
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  Very courageous, noble, and necessary thing.
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• Uh Oh, a liberal Atheist writes about liberal Christians, this can’t end well | Robinince's Blog
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• Everyday Sexism: It isn’t restricted to adults – even young girls in school uniform share their experiences | | Independent Editor's choice Blogs
  The comments to this are just depressing. Full of derailing.
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Comments

[ginasketch]

I have to say I prefer DS9 for female characters. Yay Jadzia!

My problems with Voyager (not Janeway) were I didn't think many of the plotlines were that good. Plus I really like 7 of 9's bluntness but hate the way they reduced her to eye candy in a skintight outfit. And don't get me started on that HORRIBLE victim blaming episode involving 7 of 9. D: D:

Sadly, TNG was the worst for female characters. They never really got to do anything...

But then, neither did Worf sometimes lol

[ginasketch]

I also didn't like the way Voyager tried to make Q so heteronormative.

According to Stewart, de Lancie and several Star Trek writers, it was canon that he was in love with Picard, which implies he doesn't give a stuff about gender. (The Q are meant to be genderless after all.) De Lancie even calls him "bispecial." His going after Janeway is not what I have a problem with given his penchant for Starship Captains- the problem was giving him a jealous, female Q mate. I mean, seriously, what? Like the Q would give a shit about that sort of thing. They're billions of years old. I'm sure they've ...ahem...been around.

/end rant.

[miss_s_b]

I never got on with DS9. I liked the exploration aspect of Trek and DS9 was all in one place.

[ginasketch]

I thought I would find a show where the space station never went anywhere boring as fuck, but I was surprised at how much I liked the character driven stuff.

[steveb_uk]

Dear god Janeway was awful. She was a bad captain in a terrible series.

">>So why doesn’t Janeway get a place on every top 10 list for great female characters?"

Because she was rubbish. I *like* the actress in other things, this is nothing to do with her, it's the personality of the character and the decisions she made. I'd watch Picard do new episodes today despite TNG often being so problematic and bland. I have no need to ever see Janeway on my screen again, I'm bored even thinking about it.

(DS9 all the way).

[miss_s_b]

We may have to agree to respectfully disagree on this. I never liked DS9 at all...

[steveb_uk]

There was a lot that didn't grab me in DS9 too, but at one point the acting and tension in emerged from nowhere and it became amazing (to me). Sisko in particular had some eps where he was emoting and acting everyone else off the screen.

(It also had plenty of genderfail just like all of them)

Oh, we're allowed to disagree :D Nothing more personal and subjective than Star Trek preferences!

Mind you, I'd watch THIS
http://youtu.be/V9Q2X32hZNk

[ginasketch]

I didn't find her character to be rubbish, just the series. :(

[adrian_turtle]

The basis of that Tor article seems to be that feminists should be enthusiastic fans of a female character written without sexism, no matter how badly she and her story may be written. I have a lot of problems with that idea. Sure, I read for character more than for world-building or plot complexity...but I can't see past bad writing. And I don't expect anybody to share my tastes.

[antisoppist]

Thank you for the Bic pen. It has been entertaining me all day.

[drunkwriter]

I couldn't help but add my own review to that BIC thing: If you're interested.

[miss_s_b]

I think I left it too long before looking, I don't see yours...

[drunkwriter]

That probably has more to do with my ineptitude - here's the permalink BIC review

[miss_s_b]

Oh sweetie... You can be a lady if you want to be! Don't let the BICstards grind you down!

[ginasketch]

hee. Bicstards.