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I Know It's Your Fault
Jun. 28th, 2006 09:37 amIt's hot here. Which means things are blooming. Which must explain the headache that Just. Won't. Go. Away. Ever.
On the plus side, I am going to learn to play the tabla. Fear me upstairs neighbors of clunky shoes and routine sexual escapades. You will rue the day, really! My tabla and I will make you think fondly of M. and his electric guitar and amp he bought from Target and stubs his toe on several times a week becuase he leaves the amp in the middle of the floor. Hah. Hah, I say.
I've discovered that the caffeine/Advil combination tends to make me a little loopy once the pain recedes. Something I discovered recently, and have evidenced to other people (yes, shut up, I'm a writer, I can make that word a verb) by explaining the chest drop as playing the xylophone with your boobs theory.
I am training my replacement and she is... very competent. But annoying. Teenagers in musical theater annoying. Pray the advil/coffee combo kicks all the way in before she gets here.
We had a very... lively discussion about female characters and violence via e-mail a few days ago and I'd like to open that up to LJ at large, particularly the idea of violence empowering female characters and the continuum along which we see that. Pretty much, the theory is that for characters like Buffy and Faith, the violence is a way of giving them a type of power that represents their "response", their solution to the vulnerability of being a teenage girl.
As the ever brilliant![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rubberneck said, Faith's violence is something the mayor appreciates in her, feeds in her and loves her both because of and in spite of that rage and violence. We also agreed that for Aeryn, the violence is inherent, but it's a tool. It's not about rage, it's about what she knows how to do, and when she learns that she has other tools, she also learns that her responses come with choices. She doesn't continue to use violence with John because it doesn't prove to be effective long-term. He sets his own limits and boundaries on his behavior in response to her choice. And that gives her other choices. But she doesn't use it out of rage and I find that sort of beautiful and interesting, and would love to open up the discussion about other characters.
crankygrrl thinks that Veronica Mars should be part of the discussion because violence isn't a tool offered to her by her creators, despite the violence of the world she lives in. I don't agree, because her lack of active violence seems to disqualify her from the conversation, but if we equate rage with violence, we have a comparison. Certainly to Veronica and Faith, which wow, that'd be quite an essay. Young women and rage in the media. So, I'm totally open to the discussion.
Hell, feel free to even share your favorite ass-kicking scene. I'd like to write this essay, post T&L Ficathon, and looooove examples.
On the plus side, I am going to learn to play the tabla. Fear me upstairs neighbors of clunky shoes and routine sexual escapades. You will rue the day, really! My tabla and I will make you think fondly of M. and his electric guitar and amp he bought from Target and stubs his toe on several times a week becuase he leaves the amp in the middle of the floor. Hah. Hah, I say.
I've discovered that the caffeine/Advil combination tends to make me a little loopy once the pain recedes. Something I discovered recently, and have evidenced to other people (yes, shut up, I'm a writer, I can make that word a verb) by explaining the chest drop as playing the xylophone with your boobs theory.
I am training my replacement and she is... very competent. But annoying. Teenagers in musical theater annoying. Pray the advil/coffee combo kicks all the way in before she gets here.
We had a very... lively discussion about female characters and violence via e-mail a few days ago and I'd like to open that up to LJ at large, particularly the idea of violence empowering female characters and the continuum along which we see that. Pretty much, the theory is that for characters like Buffy and Faith, the violence is a way of giving them a type of power that represents their "response", their solution to the vulnerability of being a teenage girl.
As the ever brilliant
rubberneck said, Faith's violence is something the mayor appreciates in her, feeds in her and loves her both because of and in spite of that rage and violence. We also agreed that for Aeryn, the violence is inherent, but it's a tool. It's not about rage, it's about what she knows how to do, and when she learns that she has other tools, she also learns that her responses come with choices. She doesn't continue to use violence with John because it doesn't prove to be effective long-term. He sets his own limits and boundaries on his behavior in response to her choice. And that gives her other choices. But she doesn't use it out of rage and I find that sort of beautiful and interesting, and would love to open up the discussion about other characters.crankygrrl thinks that Veronica Mars should be part of the discussion because violence isn't a tool offered to her by her creators, despite the violence of the world she lives in. I don't agree, because her lack of active violence seems to disqualify her from the conversation, but if we equate rage with violence, we have a comparison. Certainly to Veronica and Faith, which wow, that'd be quite an essay. Young women and rage in the media. So, I'm totally open to the discussion.Hell, feel free to even share your favorite ass-kicking scene. I'd like to write this essay, post T&L Ficathon, and looooove examples.
