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[probablecylon]

Day 16: Your guilty pleasure show --

LAW & ORDER: SVU - It's a cactus wholly bristling with fraud & manipulation, pretending to be something it's not -- I know what it is, and I go to it all the same

Day 17: Favorite mini series -

JOHN ADAMS - Laura Linney is Abigail Adams, and with Paul Giamatti, she brought the viewer entirely into that marriage

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[probablecylon]

[. After that, the women were stuffed into objectifying minskirts. A mistake that the recent film criminally repeated

[probablecylon]

[I've heard this argument before. It is a product of society's sexism that it was viewed as liberating for women to wear revealing clothing

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20. I'm not sure what I like better--the kiss, or the idea that the entire material for Cordelia/Wesley's budding feelings for each other was simply setup for one moment of delirious anticlimax. (Also, perhaps I shouldn't share this, but my girlfriend has described our very first kiss as being like Cordelia and Wesley's, with the second and third being very, very big improvements; but at the time I was mostly just proud and happy that she had internalized my favourite show, which she watched on my recommendation, so much

[probablecylon]

[do you mean "held her back" in the sense that if you were Willow's friend you would advise her that Oz was not helping her, and wish that they would break up so she can find fulfillment as a person; or "held her back" in that Willow's character arc in the show--which eventually leads both to World Destroyer and White Goddess, and so is both ascent and descent as a person but all progress as a story, was impeded?]

Willow was the most likely candidate to be able to develop personally without being in a romantic relationship in high school -- people do, tho' it's un-american or maybe wholly un-contemporary to do it.

[probablecylon]

[Big misogyny moment. That whole angel storyline was a cheat and a smack in the face to everything Katee did so well on the show years. What a way to treat their best character, as if they were trying to balance out the good they did by having such a character]

Kara says that she's "completed her journey", so she's still her -- she knows who she is, just doesn't know what she is until that moment. Kara is in no way erased, reduced, or traduced by this -- in fact, labelling it 'misogynist', when there is no sexual mistreatment or violence, when there is no attack on her identity at all, looks a lot like a parody of feminist discourse.

[probablecylon]

In fact, if Kara was still alive & going to settle down and homestead with Lee, that would've been a truly misogynist ending -- instead, she's reached finality, and the finality is not settling down & reproducing with the Man Of Her Dreams.