noelia_g

I just need to rant briefly, excuse me. It's not going to last long. Here goes.

I have two jobs, and yes, they both are afternoon and evening jobs, which means I can get up late. But I have to be hyper-aware at six pm, which is when I teach the kids groups, and so it can't be late in my day, it needs to be the middle of the day for me, so I can dance and jump and sing and enthuse about present perfect.

I study two different subjects (technically, three), have an MA in-progress and a bunch of projects I'm working on, including trying to figure out new software for editing dubbing and voice-over and subtitles and generally working with strange new things.

I am reading seven books at the moment, and all of them are for school or the MA. I am watching 32 tv series currently, and I'd like to point out that YES, tv shows were how I taught myself English, so it's not a weste of time. I am writing NaNoWriMo and averaging 2500 words a day or so. I had one free day this month, and my next free day will fall on the freakin' Christmas Eve. I have social life and I actually meet with people other than online, which had been my mother's pet complain for years now.

And I swear, if my mother calls me lazy one more time, and tells me that I basically do nothing for days, I'm going to scream.

I don't get angry often, but FUCK IT.

No, show, seriously. I love you, but you keep pissing me off, and you are offending me time and again. It might be the time to break up soon, if you don't improve.

On some level, this is a show written for me. Myths, urban legends, forgotten gods, tricksters, fairy tales... Add eye-candy, road trip, epic journey, stir well.

But then, more often than not, I feel wrong for watching. Because it keeps on getting more and more mysogynist with every episode.

Strong women are evil. Sexually active women are evil (or punished for it, or both). Good women are cast exclusively in typical female roles (mothers, waitresses, nurses, secretaries).

( with spoilers to 3x12 )

I'm still lamenting the treatment Jo and Ellen got. Jo particulary, her great character development, her coming of age, was reduced to accepting that her role in life was to be set aside, to be dismissed.

And then comes the reveal in ( 3x12 )

This is the show that draws most of its audience from intelligent women. You think that watching it should not make me feel wrong, and ashamed.

If you read till here, just let me link you to Luminosity and Sisabet's 'Women's work' vid that says everything that I'm trying to say here, much better.