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I take back everything I said about Torchwood being a soap opera. Angel is a fucking soap opera. Cordy is evil (which throws us back to just which Powers were up to what when they had her ascend back when, and was that the beginning of the planning for the current narrative apocalypse?); Angel is still Angelus; Wesley just had to chop off his dead ex-girlfriend's head; Gunn is blaming Fred for the kiss she never got around to consenting too; and, OH YEAH, Cordy is pregnant with another fucking demon baby (is this 3? 4?) and this time she says it's Connor's and she's been banging the Beast. WHAT THE FUCK, SHOW? WHAT THE FUCK?
On the other hand, since they put Angel/Angelus in a cage, I gotta say the acting and the directing has really tightened up and is pretty masterful.
Meanwhile, much to Patty's relief, Project Runway starts Thursday.
I think we're going to try to see The Kids are All Right this week.
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Date: 2010-07-27 04:40 pm (UTC)For me the moment of pause is a response to a sort of free-floating idea that women can't play on the broader internet but must remains in a safe space.
Now having safe spaces is really good and I'm a part of safe spaces, including some women-only spaces (despite a certain degree of gender offness I feel about that), and some people have absolutely, positively had experiences that means these are going to be the dominant (or sole) spaces for them because that's what's comfortable and that's all FINE.
But I got online in 1990 (as an embarrassing article in Sassy Magazine will attest) and the idea that women should be scared online is one that really bothers me (and one that was pervasive then -- there are no girls here and they wouldn't want to be and it's bad for them), even as some women do have every reason to be scared online.
Knowing noting about BlogHer, other than its name, my first reaction was that it was about telling women that this space, the BlogHer space, was the only okay space for them. This, apparently, isn't what BlogHer is, although that was my reaction based both upon my own biases and their branding (which I admittedly explored for about five minutes).
But none of that, anywhere is about SAHM.
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Date: 2010-07-27 04:50 pm (UTC)I would say that I don't think BlogHer is designed to restrict women. I admittedly know more about the people who participate than the organization itself, but from my experience with it and having seen a lot of posts about it from the people involved, it's more of a social network to allow women to meet other women with similar interests, and to encourage women to get involved in the blogosphere, and also to support those who are already there.
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Date: 2010-07-27 04:53 pm (UTC)And I admit my biases here aren't all good here, hence my not getting it and including the item in the first place, but how people want to shape their families and raise their kids, totally not my business, concern or source of bias.