a pile of good and bad things.

[be_themoon]

First off, I would like to take a moment to pimp the Narnia Fic Exchange. (OMG YAY.)



Go! Sign up! Enjoy! Sign-ups are open until June 19th. *claps hands excitedly* I am looking forward to this SO MUCH, you have no idea.

Doctor Who last Saturday! Guys, SO GOOD. 

- no magical mental diseases that get cured with one thing! delicate, sensitive, thoughtful treatment of mental diseases! Doctor Who, how do you get awesomer every. single. week this season? 
- RORY COME BACK. WE MISS YOUUUUUU. Eleven misses you! Amy misses you even though she doesn't remember you! We all want you back. D:
- AMY. AMY AND VINCENT. AMY AND ELEVEN AND VINCENT. WATCHING THE STARS. I cannot eveeeeen, capslock is not sufficient! So adorable!
- how gorgeous is Karen Gillian? so gorgeous. her in the sunflowers was such gorgeous photography. 
- "Is this how time normally passes? Reaaaaallly slowly, and in the right order?" ILU, ELEVEN.
- How awesome is Amy the Van Gogh and art fangirl? I love that about her, that she loves art, and painting, and that she stands there entranced as it gets dark, watching Van Gogh paint. That she pushes the Doctor away when he bothers Van Gogh. that she tries so hard to help him. OH AMY.
- Vincent in the gallery! You know what I mean. 
- Amy, so hopeful that they'd changed things! oh, man. 
- the Doctor's speech. best. thing. ever. I needed that speech this week, too. I've got this episode tucked away in my heart, and am keeping it there for times that get bad. HEY ELEVEN YOU'RE AWESOME.
- SUNFLOWERS FOR AMY. (She's not the marrying type. D: Do you know how much she must have loved Rory to even consider marrying him? SO MUCH.)
- RORY COME BAACK.

It looks like next week might be the Doctor-companion-lite episode of the season? :( I am, however, greatly looking forward to the antics of the Doctor attempting to pass himself off as a normal human. (AHAHAHAHAHA, brb dead of laughing.)

HEY DW FANDOM, while I'm on Doctor Who. Stop it with the slut-shaming and other absurdity! Feminism: you're getting it wrong. If you dislike Amy, try to dislike her in a rational manner. I know it can be done! I know people who are doing it in a rational manner! You can do it too. (Well, I'd prefer you just convert to thinking she is the awesomest, but I'll settle for disliking her for rational reasons that don't involve saying she dresses like a slut, which is especially insulting to me because - well, does that mean you think I'm a slut for having legs like hers and wanting to wear her clothes?) I encourage you to engage in reasonable discussions, thoughtfulness, and a deep deep look at internalized misogyny. Thanks!

no love until you stop the hypocrisy and vileness, 
Betsy.

Comments

[ineptshieldmaid]

Well, I'd prefer you just convert to thinking she is the awesomest, but I'll settle for disliking her for rational reasons that don't involve saying she dresses like a slut

This is reminding me of the Hair Debacle in STXI fandom last year, in which one side railed about Uhura's straight hair and how it was an insult to black women everywhere (and by extension, Uhura and/or Zoe were sellouts, etc), and the others railed about Uhura having the right to do whatever she damn well pleased with her hair, Zoe's hair being actually straight, and their personal straight hair. And what the former party failed to specify - or perhaps grasp - and the latter party either didn't understand or didn't care about, was that the problem isn't *one girl*'s appearance but ongoing tropes.

I don't have a problem with Amy - she's not my favourite companion yet (that would be Martha or Donna), but she's pretty awesome. As far as short-skirted TV women go, her costumes cool and I haven't had any reason to thing that the camera/directing's *exploiting* her skirt choices (we're not getting shots which focus primarily on her legs or hemline, for example).

But it would be a valid objection to the current series of Dr Who, as part of wider sci-fi culture (and maybe other TV as well?) to say that there's a problem when awesome female characters are usually only awesome when it comes with being attractive, sexually available, and dressed in ways which we know are going to appeal to a male audience's perve reflex (nevermind the lesbian audience, TV producers aren't usually thinking of them). I like *Amy* as a person, but I don't like the plot arc, the one that's forcing her to choose between two men in order to affirm one or other of them in their masculinity. That bugs me; the fact that she's clever and sexually confident and all of that is *cool*, but much of the plot purpose for establishing that about her seems to be (i'm only up to ep 8) to establish her as a better prize in the little game of Don't You Wish Your Boyfriend Was Hot Like Me that the Doctors' playing. And costuming choices are all a part of that.

Amy's not a person, not at the canon level. I think maybe the slut-shamers have forgotten that part, as well as many of Amy's defenders. She's a Stephen Moffat *creation*, one more piece in the big matrix of pop culture.

In other news, I signed up to beta for narnia_exchange!

[eudaimon.livejournal.com]

THAT I signed up for :b

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

OMG YAY. *claps hands*

[metonomia.livejournal.com]

<33333 this. Amen, huzzah, w0rd, and all that.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

...slut shaming because she has great legs and is therefore perfectly entitled to wear miniskirts to show them off? This may be why I like to stay away from a lot of fandom discussion. Fortunately, very few of this type ever attend the conventions. Someone calls me a slut, I feel perfectly entitled to punch them out.