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youneedtolookatthis:

thehappyfangirl:

makingfists:

It’s like this…

You’re fourteen and you’re reading Larry Niven’s “The Protector” because it’s your father’s favorite book and you like your father and you think he has good taste and the creature on the cover of the book looks interesting and you want to know what it’s about. And in it the female character does something better than the male character - because she’s been doing it her whole life and he’s only just learned - and he gets mad that she’s better at it than him. And you don’t understand why he would be mad about that, because, logically, she’d be better at it than him. She’s done it more. And he’s got a picture of a woman painted on the inside of his spacesuit, like a pinup girl, and it bothers you.

But you’re fourteen and you don’t know how to put this into words.

And then you’re fifteen and you’re reading “Orphans of the Sky” because it’s by a famous sci-fi author and it’s about a lost generation ship and how cool is that?!? but the women on the ship aren’t given a name until they’re married and you spend more time wondering what people call those women up until their marriage than you do focusing on the rest of the story. Even though this tidbit of information has nothing to do with the plot line of the story and is only brought up once in passing.

But it’s a random thing to get worked up about in an otherwise all right book.

Then you’re sixteen and you read “Dune” because your brother gave it to you for Christmas and it’s one of those books you have to read to earn your geek card. You spend an entire afternoon arguing over who is the main character - Paul or Jessica. And the more you contend Jessica, the more he says Paul, and you can’t make him see how the real hero is her. And you love Chani cause she’s tough and good with a knife, but at the end of the day, her killing Paul’s challengers is just a way to degrade them because those weenies lost to a girl.

Then you’re seventeen and you don’t want to read “Stranger in a Strange Land” after the first seventy pages because something about it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth. All of this talk of water-brothers. You can’t even pin it down.

And then you’re eighteen and you’ve given up on classic sci-fi, but that doesn’t stop your brother or your father from trying to get you to read more.

Even when you bring them the books and bring them the passages and show them how the authors didn’t treat women like people.

Your brother says, “Well, that was because of the time it was written in.”

You get all worked up because these men couldn’t imagine a world in which women were equal, in which women were empowered and intelligent and literate and capable. 

You tell him - this, this is science fiction. This is all about imagining the world that could be and they couldn’t stand back long enough and dare to imagine how, not only technology would grow in time, but society would grow. 

But he blows you off because he can’t understand how it feels to be fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and desperately wanting to like the books your father likes, because your father has good taste, and being unable to, because most of those books tell you that you’re not a full person in ways that are too subtle to put into words. It’s all cognitive dissonance: a little like a song played a bit out of tempo - enough that you recognize it’s off, but not enough to pin down what exactly is wrong.

And then one day you’re twenty-two and studying sociology and some kind teacher finally gives you the words to explain all those little feelings that built and penned around inside of you for years.

It’s like the world clicking into place. 

And that’s something your brother never had to struggle with.

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Oh yes, so much this.  SO MUCH this.

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Aww, thank you. That is really sweet.

stfu-moffat:

kittypython asked stfu-moffat:

Hi! I suppose you’ll receive tons of messages like this one but I sincerely don’t care. So my question is: have you seen DW’s “The Bells of St John: A Prequel” already?. When I watched I was all like “OK, the Doctor on a swing - nice, a little girl, AGAIN, omgpleasemofffatseriouslychangetherecordinyourheadalready, well, at least she’s just a sweet random girl…” And then there was the ending *facepalm* I mean, this is not even funny anymore!

*sigh* I just watched it. If you haven’t seen it, you can view it here.

This marks the fourth time Moffat has used this trope where the Doctor meets a young girl and then meets her again when she’s older. First with Reinette in The Girl in the Fireplace (which is also the beginning of ‘The Girl…’ titles), then with Amy, River (though in reverse order), and now Clara. It’s getting overused and tiresome now.

It also shows how stagnant Moffat is as a writer, since he not only reuses the same character model for his female characters, but also the same storyline. Centuries old time traveller meets a young girl, and then meets up with her again the future and snogs her. It’s actually very creepy when you think about the implications of a older man meeting the young girl who is now older and sexualised. She waits a long time to be with a man who she met briefly as a girl and now that she’s older and a sexual being, she can finally be with him. It’s disconcerting.

This trope started with Reinette who waited her whole life for the Doctor, then with Amy who had the official ‘girl who waited’ title, then River who had to wait for their timelines to cross over again and again while she was in prison half of the time for a crime she didn’t commit, to now Clara who repeatedly dies and waits for the Doctor to seek her out. All of the women are in passive roles in this and their identities are based solely on the Doctor and how he works in their lives. Their independence is stripped from them and it’s really problematic. This is simply weak writing and weak characterisation and Moffat really needs to branch out as a writer.

- SH

yet it never appears in Sherlock so, whatcha got?

RTD made EVERYONE fall in with The Doctor. That was a bit much don’t you think? Like Everywhere The Doctor went SOMEONE would fall for him. Like *drool* here’s my number…why yes come on do what you want…

 Each writer has their own quirks. Moffat included.

toygeisha:

“All I wanna do is fall in love while there’s still time.”

First up, on my new film related project is a unheard of but top shelf movie called Elektra Luxx!! It’s quirky and funny absolutely amazing and even has uncle Andy from Weeds in it.

Have you ever had a really bad day? Like just…

I’m not sure if I’ve posted this, but considering I’m restarting the project its worth a reblog