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lifeonqueen: (HA - Elizabeth by Cleolinda)
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 01:43 am
As of today, I'm going to be moderating a panel at Polaris this year about Gina Bellafante's infamous review of Game of Thrones and the perception of SF&F as boy's town. This will be all kinds of hilarious for a number of reasons not limited to - I don't like Game of Thrones; I kind of agree with Bellafante's assessment of the books as "boy fiction"*; I think the reason SF&F is perceived as a boy's club is because that is largely what it is, particularly in media where the male gaze is so prevalent that attempting to point in out can be a transgressive act.

Slightly diagonal to the subject but still relevant - a site called "Film Drunk" compiled a group of clips of "Hot Woman Pandering to Nerds" (read the Toronto Star's post about it) because no attractive woman ever read a comic book or something. Then again, visit a site called "Film Drunk" and, really, you've brought the insecure fanboy rage on yourself. "Fandom" often prides itself on being a space where people are accepted on character as opposed to superficial qualities like appearance and money. Yet there are few places misogyny flows as freely as a comic book message board.

N.B. Rosario Dawson is a comic book creator and writer. So is Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes). Guess which one is accused of pandering.

Noted to be read later: "Gosh, sweetie, that's a big gun," from the New York Times on women in action films and the response "Women As Violent Characters": What The F**** Is The Controversy?"



*I personally find A Song of Ice and Fire a decidedly masculine narrative, however, the reason I never suggested The Hobbit to my bookclub (although if I'd known what Clara Callan was going to be like, I so would have) is that I'd read the book in grade six. I assumed everyone else had, too.
lifeonqueen: (Wolves - Selene by grumpybear 1031)
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 01:17 am
Just finished rewatching Ultraviolet on DVD. If fandom were a just universe (if TV were a just universe) there would be lots of hawt, angsty fic about Vaughan Rice (young Mr. Idris Elba) and his stoic, faithful and doomed to be unrequited love for the utterly emotionally unavailable because vampires ate her family Angie March (Susannah Harker).

Instead I found some slash involving the POV prat played by Jack Davenport. Bleargh.

Yes, Jack Davenport is very handsome in that floppy-haired, ineffectually masculine, chinless English way (see Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2 and 3) but IDRIS ELBA - Stringer Bell in the house fighting vampires, y'all - and people get all slashy with the pouty chinless wonder?

So. Wrong.