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[green_queen]

Not a real post, I desperately want to get to bed, but my favourite icon maker made icons, and then there's this:

The Incredibly Condescending, Sexist Girls' Guide to Comic-Con (first sentence: "Comic-Con. It's not just for nerdy guys anymore.")
The Jezebel rebuttal ("Headdesk Powers Activate".)
The io9 rebuttal.

Most insulting moment of the original article for me: The 'Where the Wild Things Are' segment's main draw? Mark Ruffalo. Not the incredible movie this is shaping up to be, with its beautiful trailer and interesting director and beloved childrens' book. The guy who will probably appear for a very small part of the movie as the kid's father. Uh. Yeah.

If you stick around long enough in the original article, it does get to plot somewhere after the halfway plot, with 'women who kick butt' as the VERY LAST segment (Chuck and Dollhouse, fyi.)

Clearly the LA times writers have never visited LiveJournal. ontd_startrek has, I believe, 10 male members to 600 female ones. Fandom is one of the only spaces where men and women can enjoy some level of equality. Fuck them for trying to take that away from us.

Also, in response to the Pixar-for-girls article from a while back, cool ladies' movie titles. WIN.

Green Queen

Comments

[subtle--sarcasm.livejournal.com]

Women will be rushing the stage, offering to do star Jake Gyllenhaal's laundry on those washboard abs that he acquired for the film, since he spends much of it fighting, shirtless or both.

Wow. I .... .... wow.

[trishpip.livejournal.com]

The laundry comment was ridiculous, like something from the 1950s when a woman's place was in the kitchen. Have to pass this on to my sister, who writes for sequentialtart.com

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Okay, having now read that line about a million times, I'm starting to think that they actually wanted to work in the fact that he has 'washboard abs' and were not thinking about the whole 'a woman's place is in the kitchen' trope. I think that part is just lazy, stupid writing instead of as overtly sexist as it appears to be. I find the article in general more insidiously sexist.

[grrliz.livejournal.com]

Clearly the LA times writers have never visited LiveJournal.

I wonder if sometimes we dig our own graves by functioning solely within the LiveJournal sphere because, and I don't think I'm terribly off base here, no one takes LiveJournal seriously outside of LiveJournal.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering what they would discover if they started paying attention to the massive online presence of geeky girls.

[hobbitofkobol.livejournal.com]

wow this is so condescending and insulting

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, I'm glad that LA Times article is getting some public mockery.

[divatreasure.livejournal.com]

I decided to whack them a bit myself ;-) Thought you'd like.

http://geekgirldiva.entertainmentearth.com/2009/06/open-letter-to-la-times-from-geek-girl.html

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to that! I'm going to link it in my post tonight, I liked it.

[divatreasure.livejournal.com]

Heck, thank you ;-)

I'm just glad to know that other people found it just as off target.

[tuatha-de.livejournal.com]

Wow that's really, really, sexist. I made it to slide 9 before I decided it was just too inane.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Like I said, they get to substance somewhere around the 12-page mark...

[sargraf.livejournal.com]

Thanks to you, I am now a member of ontd_startrek. Yay! I didn't know it existed. (I have been hovering around ontd_ai far too long, destroying my mind and sharpening my claws but not actively. Just in my head. I have yet to post. Comms can scare me, what with the bee hive mentality and insistence on harmony. Anyhow!)

Hope you're doing well! Man, it's been forever.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I was going to say, I haven't seen you online in forever! I usually don't like ontd communities (and I hate the original with a passion) but ontd_startrek is one of my favourite LJ things ever. It's SO much fun.

[sargraf.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely going to enjoy lurking there. I love Star Trek with a passion (albeit a relatively quiet one, not the kind that prompts a lot of over-serious analysis). The ai comm is crazy and all in good fun, which makes it addictive.

It has been forever, hasn't it? I just fell out of online stuff. AI is what brought me back, unexpectedly.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I love the new Star Trek with a passion, still not so keen on the old one (I enjoy it, just not in a mad fannish way.)

Who did you like on Idol?

[sargraf.livejournal.com]

I have not seen the movie yet. (It's out now, correct?) The original series was very much a love/hate thing for me. Some of it just pushed all the wrong buttons, while other parts of it were like chicken soup. I particularly loved DS9, for reasons I can't quite articulate... although it had its own share of offensive characterizations to make my brain go *pop*.

I've never been an Idol follower before now (watched it casually now and then but never seriously and never ventured online into fandom), so it still feels very much like an alien world I don't know all the rules to. It was Adam that got me to tune into Idol. I love Allison, too, though not nearly as much. Adam, though. I love his personality and what he did on Idol and how he dared to do it. He put it all out there, more often than not. I admire that. And I love what I'm hearing about his debut album.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's out, and it's AWESOME. AWESOME! It's so pretty and exciting and I've seen it FIVE TIMES. BECAUSE IT'S AWESOME.

I love Adam too! I don't even watch American Idol, but I saw some videos of him and Kris being cute and then I saw some videos of him in Wicked and I just thought he was FIERCE.

[sargraf.livejournal.com]

FIVE times?? Damn! I MUST SEE IT. Will certainly make plans this weekend. The pictures and previews certainly kick very much ass.

Adam's own brother calls him a glittery alien from planet fierce. Ha! It is all in love. Did you see the US interview of him and Kris, the whole joke about the "top"? If not, YOU MUST WATCH. I will post it. Heck, I might post it, anyway, in case someone else on my flist missed it or simply to relive the unbearable cuteness once more, this time with everyone. Adam's Rolling Stone interview is pretty damn fierce, too. <3 I might have to type it up and repost it in its entirety, complete with outtakes, because it was remarkably candid.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

THE MOVIE KICKS MORE ASS THAN IS POSSIBLE. OR LEGAL.

LOL I have seen that interview, actually. They're very cute.

[sargraf.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE MAKING ME ENVIOUS AND IMPATIENT! (sigh)

Yes. I'm definitely an Adam fan whereas I like Kris mostly courtesy of his friendship with Adam and Allison, but it can't be said enough how cute they are.