In response to all those articles about talking to women with headphones…
Someone always says it, whenever it comes up: “I guess I’m just not allowed to talk to anyone any more!”
Well. Yes. It is my duty to inform you that we took a vote all us women and determined that you are not allowed to talk to anyone ever again.
This vote is legally binding.
Yes, of course, all women know each other, the way you always suspected. (Incidentally, so do Canadians. I’m just throwing that out there.) We went into the women’s room at the Applebee’s at the corner of 54 and all the others streamed in through the doors into that endless liminal space, a chain of humans stretching backward heavy skulled Neanderthal women laughing with New York socialites, Lucille Ball hand in hand with the Taung child. We sat around in the couches in the women’s room (I know you’ve always been suspicious of those couches) and chatted with each other in the secret female language that you always knew existed. Somebody set up a console– the Empress Wu is ruthless at Mario Kart and Cleopatra never learned to lose and a woman who ruled an empire that fell when the Sea People came and left no trace can use the blue shell like a surgical instrument.
Eventually we took the vote. You had three defenders: your grandmother and your first-grade teacher and an Albanian nun who believes the best of everybody. Your mom abstained. It was duly recorded in the secret notebooks that have been kept under the couch in the Applebee’s since the beginning of recorded time. And then we went back to playing Mario Kart and Hoelun took off her bra and we didn’t think about you again except that I had to carry this message.
So anyway good luck with that it’s just as you always said it was. Hush now, no talking
"We’re expected to do our jobs as if we don’t have children — and then raise our children as if we don’t have jobs,” she said. “If you think about the model of the ideal mother, it’s the person who sacrifices everything for her child. The ideal worker is someone who can drop everything and go on a business trip at a moment’s notice, and who can stay late — not leave at 5 o'clock to pick up kids. So if you’re trying to be both, then you are faking it."
Actual reasons people are frustrated with JJ’s Star Trek:
It deliberately does away with the philosophy of Star Trek
It’s extremely sexist
It ignores the ‘crew’ feeling of the series in favor of a story that revolves almost entirely around Spock and Kirk
Whitewashes Khan
Riped off whole parts of an old script for ST:ID
Takes a series about exploration and acceptance and makes it about violence and revenge
The obliteration of an entire planet with no apparent long-term effect?
- Completely ignores the original characterization choices in favour of making the characters shallow pop-culture versions of themselves
- Blatantly disregards the military-exploratory nature of Starfleet in favour of doing whatever looks/sounds ‘cool’
- Consistent neither with actual current science nor with the established science of the Star Trek universe
- ignores the actual mission of exploring strange new worlds and seeking out new civilizations in favor of, well, whatever it was they did in those first 2 movies
- promised an alternate timeline where presumably new things would happen, and instead gave us a tired retread of an already established plot because reasons
- zombie tribbles (never forget)
- did away with the need for starships entirely with Khan’s magic planet hopping mini transporter
I can’t believe there are already people complaining about the combat in the new Star Wars movie looking too similar to the Prequel trilogy rather than the original trilogy.
Like, do I need to remind you what the the combat looked like in the originals?
“Careful now Vader, we don’t want to break our lightsabers.”
Why would you not want the combat to look like that of the prequel trilogy though?
The combat was fucking awesome.
I would argue that it’s a good in between. The originals were too tame and the prequels feel too glamorized. The force awakens feels like an actual fight is happening.
I so agree. Prequel lightsaber fights, while amazingly choreographed, feel too ‘put on’. TFA’s lightsaber fight felt like fencing, actual sword fighting, but with an edge. A perfect harmony of the originals and the trilogy.
Original Trilogy: Whacking sticks
Prequel Trilogy: Lightsaber ballet
Sequel Trilogy: Actually looks like professionals fighting
why would you exclude the prime example of prequel showmanship
this gif doesn’t do it justice they spin their lightsabers without hitting each other for a good 5 seconds it’s wonderful
