CommanderRidley wrote:I know that that's how their articles are designed and I know I'm being an idiot for falling for their fucking tabloid headlines, so why do I still click?
Bert wrote:The best part of my job is fistfighting an 8 year old every day.
EstebanColberto wrote:I've been thinking about it a bit and I did want to add something to the discussion rather than just a few jokes. One of the things Tess mentioned that really upset her and upset me as well is the fact that they couldn't just let a woman protagonist just be without attaching some kind of agenda to it. Ripley from the Alien franchise is the quintessential woman badass, and while the character can certainly be analyzed from a feminist angle or be regarded as a feminist hero, as far as the story itself is concerned, Ripley's gender is mostly irrelevant. You could've made her a man with only a few lines of dialogue changed.
It reminded me of something I liked from the tv show Friends. In the last season, Ross was briefly dating a black woman, who's apparently the only black woman in New York City in that universe. I'm used to seeing interracial couples on television referring to the fact that they're an interracial couple, especially in comedy shows. It's hard to resist. Culture clash is such an easy comic foil to fall back on. I'm not saying that it's bad to do that. Scrubs did that kind of thing a lot and I loved Scrubs, but I think it's really awesome when an interracial couple is on screen and there is absolutely no mention of them being interracial whatsoever and that's what Friends did. I've watched all of those episodes and there is absolutely no mention of her being black. No jokes about it, no comments about it, no explanation to Ross's conservative Jewish parents ham-fisted preachy BS about it. It was just accepted like it's a normal thing not even worth commenting on until I just commented on it. Right now, The Flash tv series is doing the same thing with Barry's love interest being black, as well as his adopted father who's his love interest's father, and she is currently involved in another interracial relationship and the interracial aspect is simply not commented on in the show. I think we won't be in a post-racist society until people like me no longer feel the need to comment that no one is commenting about this.
Another example of this was a recent episode of Gotham. (Yeah, there's a running theme with the types of shows I watch.) I can't remember which exact episode, but someone at Gotham PD made an offhand comment about his boyfriend. No elaboration, no preachy soapbox BS, no reaction from everyone else. He lives with another dude. Who gives a shit? Ok, apparently, I do, but who else? Certainly not any of the characters on the show. They're just treating it like it's normal.
[That's the end of my point, but I wanted to add something as a side, I realize the first thing I posted in this thread was essentially a rape joke. I, personally, don't have a zero tolerance policy for such things, and I see that some of the likes I got were from women, but I do realize it can be offensive and I'm not sure how this community as a whole feels about it. I haven't been reprimanded by anyone, so I'm assuming this isn't a zero tolerance type of place, but I've read the rules and you're not supposed to target members with these and that one was kinda-sorta-roundaboutish directed at Tess herself even if it wasn't meant maliciously and I was agreeing with her while pretending that I didn't. I was implying that I raped her. If anyone was offended by that, I'm sorry.]
Gendry wrote:Great, now my subconscious has issued a challenge to my brain to work the phrase "starchy subjugation" into everyday conversation
Bert wrote:The best part of my job is fistfighting an 8 year old every day.
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Ericthebearjew wrote:This article sort of begs the question, what do tumblrites expect out of video games? What would be their ideal video game? Do they even want video games to be a thing?
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