Buffy the Vampire Protesterjordan179May 22 2007, 16:56:02 UTC
Long have I remembered that wonderful series, Buffy the Vampire Protester, about that brave Chosen One, her friends, and the letters to the editor and consumer boycotts she organized to deal with the scourge of vampires ...
What, Whedon has a better sense of reality when he's writing urban fantasy than when he's dealing with real life?
It really is an odd experience to see that certain thoughts and words just set people off.Yeah, watching girls get stoned to death for dating outside their religion really "sets me off." How immature I am! Perhaps I need more "boiling hot nuance pumped into my rectum," a la Tycho
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I too have not watched the video (and I won't be watching "Captivity"). However, I was glad to see Whedon comment on it, whatever his phrasing, although I very much agree that 'cool' was not the word I would have chosen; 'cultural approval or commemoration' is, I think, far more accurate
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I am glad that Whedon, with his massive fan base, commented upon an awful crime. I am unhappy that he used a crime in the Middle East to level cheap and inaccurate shots at the West. ("Jingoistic"?! *grrrrr*)
I am sure a significant minority of American males think women are programmatically manipulative. Until they date other men (I am not holding my breath) they will not realize that men suck, just in another way (just as, to the unreflective, marriage seems to be the number one cause of infidelity). Just how many articles have been published this year about male commitment-phobes, cheaters and trophy-wife collectors? Tsk, one might be tempted to say we deserve each other. ;-)
Interestingly, as I read his article, I more and more expected the usual cheap shots at the "American Taliban," i.e., the Bush administration: he came to the neighborhood, but didn't knock on that door. (Of course, even before Sayyid Qutb hit that orgiastic Colorado church social, people like Osama bin Laden have
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After all that hot air I should mention, in the end, that I probably, simply do not trust Joss Whedon. On art, Gore Vidal is nigh infallible; on (non-gay) politics, unreadable. (He was naive about foreign policy before the 60s and a raging dove after.) Steve Earle writes wonderful songs and describes himself as a redneck Maoist (ugh). Harlan Ellison is rushed and incoherent. All wonderful writers. With awful tastes in politics
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To be fair, I believe that "rumored [Firefly] episode with Inara and the Reavers" was not Joss, but Tim Minear's conception. And Minear self-identifies as libertarian (he was the one writing the screenplay for Heinlein's THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS, but it looks like that won't be happening).
I need a BUFFY THE VAMPIRE PROTESTER shirt. So bad.
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What, Whedon has a better sense of reality when he's writing urban fantasy than when he's dealing with real life?
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God, I wish I had thought of that line. :-)
Whedon has a better sense of reality when he's writing urban fantasy than when he's dealing with real life?
Those who can, do. Those who can't, end up on TV: either writing for COPs, or starring in it. ;-)
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"You don't have to be so confrontational about it. Other viewpoints than yours may be valid, you know."
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I am glad that Whedon, with his massive fan base, commented upon an awful crime. I am unhappy that he used a crime in the Middle East to level cheap and inaccurate shots at the West. ("Jingoistic"?! *grrrrr*)
I am sure a significant minority of American males think women are programmatically manipulative. Until they date other men (I am not holding my breath) they will not realize that men suck, just in another way (just as, to the unreflective, marriage seems to be the number one cause of infidelity). Just how many articles have been published this year about male commitment-phobes, cheaters and trophy-wife collectors? Tsk, one might be tempted to say we deserve each other. ;-)
Interestingly, as I read his article, I more and more expected the usual cheap shots at the "American Taliban," i.e., the Bush administration: he came to the neighborhood, but didn't knock on that door. (Of course, even before Sayyid Qutb hit that orgiastic Colorado church social, people like Osama bin Laden have ( ... )
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I need a BUFFY THE VAMPIRE PROTESTER shirt. So bad.
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