Yo, taking a break from Tumblr to actually try to write and get stuff done. I’ve been trying to work on these articles for ages and all the shiny pictures keep distracting me. I’ll still be getting messages in my ask, though, so feel free to send me “GET THE FUCK OFF YOUR LAZY ASS AND WRITE SOMETHING” messages; I find those very effective. :)
TARDIS
Time and Relative Dimension in Space
Doctor Who (1963) - S01xE01 - An unearthly child
#the entire story of doctor who started because of the relationship between susan and barbara you guys #I don’t think you understand #it didn’t start with the Doctor #it didn’t start with Susan and the Doctor #it all started because Barbara was worried about Susan #without that no human may have ever set foot in the tardis
Entitled "anglophilia and northward tendancies": Reblog if you want The Doctor to have a companion who's a wheelchair user →
I’d prefer the Doctor’s companion to have some other type of disability. (No offense, wheelchair users, I’d just like a little variety and representation.)
A companion with ANY disability would be awesome!
It would also be really fucking cool…
This is probably going to get quoted in every publication just because I said it. And I’m not even saying anything. I’m not talking about my films, I’m not talking about my life, and I’m not talking about the world. And yet, the media will print it simply because I said it. And at this moment in time, I bet there is an artist around the corner of this hotel, on the street, with a mind far beyond ours, but we will never listen to him simply because he has not appeared in a movie. And that is what is fucked up about our culture.
Specifically to address those assholes who think Natasha is only around to:
- Make things less gay
- Show her tits
- Be a love interest
- Romp around in a tight-fitting suit and catch the eye of the male audience
Yeah, your sexism isn’t appreciated.
THIS SO MUCH. Some kid in one of my classes said she was a pointless character and was only in there for some of the reasons listed above. Though my lecture about the awesomeness of BW to him in The Avengers may have shut him up.
I think some of this may, interestingly, speak to how bad movies (and possibly crude criticism) have conditioned us to see women. Because we are so used to seeing women being presented as sex objects that this is now how we see them automatically – and we see that in a critical way, but when a woman on a team of men, especially an attractive one, is automatically perceived as being placed there as token eye candy, that is a PROBLEM. And I say “crude criticism”, because I think the line is not adequately cut between criticizing the use of a woman and the woman herself.
I’ll admit, I did watch the scene in which she is chased by the Hulk with a very critical eye – the phrase which popped into my head was, “Is this Natasha being a damsel in distress, or is it a strong, capable hero up against a threat more powerful than they are, and happens to be female,” and I think in the end it was the latter. Scarlett Johansen (sp?) is sort of automatically seen as a bit of a sex symbol, but you can’t pull the kind of gravity-and-anatomy defying crap with a real person that you can on the page. With her fight scenes, she landed and took blows as much as the guys (something I’ve noticed, sometimes in action movies, even if a woman gets a hand-to-hand scene, the noise of the blows/impact/etc. is sometimes muted – and it wasn’t here), and she had a character arc which was solid, and hinged mostly on a platonic relationship. Has she been marketed in a sexist way? I think that is a distinct possibility. But not so in-text.
oh my god.
guys.
all of this.
Of course, I really think she was handled super well in the movie—Whedon is usually pretty good about not being a sexist pig (and the presence of cleavage is anything but sexist, if it’s not viewed in a weird sort of male gaze-y way).
The problem is, fanboys can be douchebags.
#the greatest #i’ve got red in my ledger. i’d like to wipe it clean. #she manipulates people’s gendered expectations of her to extract information#she conducts interrogations by letting people think they’ve bested her #by letting men think they’ve bested her #because she’s small and fragile and female and she is emotional and easy to snap in half #and then she tears them apart #and it’s the greatest thing and you’re the greatest thing and i love you #get your own movie
#and Agent Coulson over there #he’s probably humming the jeopardy theme to himself
- Girl: But if I have a boyfriend, and I kiss a girl, does that really count as cheating?
- Me: If I punch you in the face with my left fist, but I'm right-handed, does that really count as me punching you in the face
