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gwydion* "Ricky Smiley Morning Show Transphobia:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/08/ricky-smiley-morning-show-transphobia.html
* Today Squirrel and I went to Greenwick and Djinni's wedding. It was at a park with dogs attending and little kids playing in the sprinklers off to the side. Congratulations you guys!
* I watched the first season of Hannibal this week. I'm not sure if I want to continue. It turned out to be very triggery the last few episodes. It's my fault really. I was fine with the books and movies. It's not the gore that's the problem. See, I didn't think through the implications. Hannibal Lector is a psychiatrist gas lighting Will in order to do him grave harm, break him down. He even frames this to his shrink as "trying to help." Sound familiar? Yeah. It got hard to watch, not reading View from a Cherry Tree bad, but actively unpleasant, which is annoying, because it's beautiful in it's way, aesthetically, character wise, with a fascinating sense of pacing and arc. I kind of love the way prestige television's been freeing itself from earlier structures. This is art, fascinating art, but it's also like running a cheese grater over my skin and I suspect it may be going somewhere I can't follow. I've only seen the first season. I could ask someone who's watching the second where it is going, but how do I frame the question? Sometimes things that ought to be triggers aren't. For media I'm unsure of, I wait to watch free, but even with decades of practice at guessing, it's still a crap shoot for me. How to ask a friend to guess if things will resolve in a way I can handle fast enough for my needs? Oh, I can force myself to watch it. I read "View from a Cherry Tree" twice, once because I didn't know better and once because it was assigned in teacher college. I do desensitizing with borderline things fairly often, but if this is going to be the sort of bad it looks likely to be, is it worth putting myself through that?
* When I was small, "Welcome Back Kotter" was a big deal. Seriously, I actually had the colorforms of them. So I'm starting a rewatch of them, like I did with the Barney Millers. I'm only two episodes in. Biggest surprise so far? Juan Epstein and not the much hyped Vinnie Barbarino (John Travolta) is clearly the cute one. Second biggest surprise? James Woods playing a nerdy debate teacher. O.o I'm not calling this a surprise as it's more of a let down. It is aggressively sexist rather than just being just a period standard sausagefest. Sigh. I suppose it says something fundamental that shows like Barney Miller and Welcome Back Kotter that were trying so hard for racial diversity completely missed that women are more than half the people in America. I know, let's give the eponymous character an understanding wife and occasionally include other female characters, but never really flesh them out or have them be central to the story except for "Very special Episodes." Barney Miller tried harder with it's women at least. So far, I'm seeing a stupid girlfriend stereotype and an understanding wife who exists to bounce jokes off of. Sigh. In retrospect, I can't name a female character besides Mrs. Kotter and it took me a minute to remember her first name is Judy.
And this is why I do the rewatches of classic sitcoms of my childhood. These are shows I absorbed when I was too young to understand some of the humor, let alone think critically about the messages I was absorbing.
* Ebay Auction:
BPAL: HEKAERGĂ 2011 and LURID (Bewitching Brews) 5ML Partials: http://www.ebay.ph/itm/301289911344?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
* Fundraiser to pay insurance and back rent: http://djinni.livejournal.com/507872.html
* Today Squirrel and I went to Greenwick and Djinni's wedding. It was at a park with dogs attending and little kids playing in the sprinklers off to the side. Congratulations you guys!
* I watched the first season of Hannibal this week. I'm not sure if I want to continue. It turned out to be very triggery the last few episodes. It's my fault really. I was fine with the books and movies. It's not the gore that's the problem. See, I didn't think through the implications. Hannibal Lector is a psychiatrist gas lighting Will in order to do him grave harm, break him down. He even frames this to his shrink as "trying to help." Sound familiar? Yeah. It got hard to watch, not reading View from a Cherry Tree bad, but actively unpleasant, which is annoying, because it's beautiful in it's way, aesthetically, character wise, with a fascinating sense of pacing and arc. I kind of love the way prestige television's been freeing itself from earlier structures. This is art, fascinating art, but it's also like running a cheese grater over my skin and I suspect it may be going somewhere I can't follow. I've only seen the first season. I could ask someone who's watching the second where it is going, but how do I frame the question? Sometimes things that ought to be triggers aren't. For media I'm unsure of, I wait to watch free, but even with decades of practice at guessing, it's still a crap shoot for me. How to ask a friend to guess if things will resolve in a way I can handle fast enough for my needs? Oh, I can force myself to watch it. I read "View from a Cherry Tree" twice, once because I didn't know better and once because it was assigned in teacher college. I do desensitizing with borderline things fairly often, but if this is going to be the sort of bad it looks likely to be, is it worth putting myself through that?
* When I was small, "Welcome Back Kotter" was a big deal. Seriously, I actually had the colorforms of them. So I'm starting a rewatch of them, like I did with the Barney Millers. I'm only two episodes in. Biggest surprise so far? Juan Epstein and not the much hyped Vinnie Barbarino (John Travolta) is clearly the cute one. Second biggest surprise? James Woods playing a nerdy debate teacher. O.o I'm not calling this a surprise as it's more of a let down. It is aggressively sexist rather than just being just a period standard sausagefest. Sigh. I suppose it says something fundamental that shows like Barney Miller and Welcome Back Kotter that were trying so hard for racial diversity completely missed that women are more than half the people in America. I know, let's give the eponymous character an understanding wife and occasionally include other female characters, but never really flesh them out or have them be central to the story except for "Very special Episodes." Barney Miller tried harder with it's women at least. So far, I'm seeing a stupid girlfriend stereotype and an understanding wife who exists to bounce jokes off of. Sigh. In retrospect, I can't name a female character besides Mrs. Kotter and it took me a minute to remember her first name is Judy.
And this is why I do the rewatches of classic sitcoms of my childhood. These are shows I absorbed when I was too young to understand some of the humor, let alone think critically about the messages I was absorbing.
* Ebay Auction:
BPAL: HEKAERGĂ 2011 and LURID (Bewitching Brews) 5ML Partials: http://www.ebay.ph/itm/301289911344?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
* Fundraiser to pay insurance and back rent: http://djinni.livejournal.com/507872.html
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Date: 2014-09-01 09:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-09-03 10:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-09-03 10:28 am (UTC)If I remember it right, we end the first season with Graham in prison, and he knows he's been framed by Lecter, so, pretty much immediately, though I think it's a little ways in before something happens that really confirms it for him and makes him utterly sure. I really couldn't say if the show will stop being disturbing to you, though, since, like I said, Will's clearly suffering a lot of damage from what Lecter did, we're just not sure exactly how much of a lot, and in what direction. Plus, he's still engaging with Lecter and putting himself at risk for damage, and getting more damaged in obtuse ways, and you watch Lecter doing it, and if Will isn't getting his strings pulled it sure does seem like it at times. That show is just creepy in a lot of ways. The one that disturbs you being the biggest one for me, too.