Miss Cellaneous

February 20th, 2008

Storytelling, society's & ours

monanotlisa

2/20/08 02:17 pm

thassalia has thoughtful thoughts on female role models, the dearth of 'em, and how some of us react:

"I get a little angry when I put forth my "if there are no women" in the story hypothesis and get the "it's about the story not the gender" argument in return because the truth is that we as a society constantly strip women from the story. We as storytellers strip women from the story, and as viewers and readers, when we accept that, we're complicit. We allow mothers to be absent, lovers to only exist in context with the men in their lives, women to exist at the edges of the story and not at the heart."

life_on_queen then made a good point, and I, uh. Went off on a tangent.

Now, because the

14valentines Life batch didn't have a single one of Dani smiling, I took

grimorie up on her offer of iconising the caps from her and when she smiles picspam post. La la la crush, what crush? I have no idea what you are speaking of. & :-P

Seriously, grimorie's lj is a one-stop shop for a lot of your Life needs; just click here, and you'll see ep reviews and links to comms, commentary, tv scheduling news, and so on and so forth. If you like off-beat crime mysteries with plot arcs and a strong focus on characterisation as well as powerful dynamics between the two protagonists, Life is the show for you. Oh, also if you like Damien Lewis. That seems to happen often. (Ten would be totally envious if he met him, I'm just sayin'.)