May 2013
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lettersfromthemargins:
Dear Steven Moffat,
Mr. Moffat, I would like to know, has any one ever called you boring? Having seen your Doctor Who and Sherlock episodes, I would doubt that. You don’t seem to like boring very much Mr. Moffat. You do everything in your power to make sure that your shows aren’t “boring” You fill them with explosions, action, and even dinosaurs. And you make sure that none...
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targaryenviserys:
i really, really dislike the trope in fiction that only the assholes, the bullies, and the “villains” can be homophobic. (this goes for any hateful -ism, really, but given that it was prompted by homophobia i’m going to run with that.)
homophobia would be much easier to dismiss if it only came from the douchebags of the population; if everyone ~good~ looked down on it,...
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A Valediction Forbidding Moffat
uncleoakenshield:
In response and elaboration to this post which critiqued Moffat and his handling of Doctor Who - for all of you who disagree with it, and continue to idolise Moffat, here is a much more general overview of why you really shouldn’t, with illustrative evidence from Doctor Who and Sherlock.
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lauraxtennant:
grrr what really pisses me off is that people think that just because we criticise Moffat’s writing, we must idolise RTD. No. NO. There was lots wrong with RTD! I found certain things he has said/written repulsive. But he is not the showrunner any more. Yes, we have to still be aware of the things he did that were problematic, but it makes far more sense to put effort into...
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Warning: maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaajor geekery ahead!! A...
kilodalton:
OK so I like math. Although I’m not a statistician, I am pretty good with math (which is lucky for anyone in the USA haha bc in a few short months I will be using said math to prepare intravenous drug compounds for hospitalized patients… tl;dr if I sucked at this, it would suck WAAAY worse to be you bwahahah XD)
ANYWAY! It should not have escaped anyone’s attention that Doctor Who...
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Why the word “stupid” is considered ableist →
queeroctopus:
neoptolemos:
Will someone explain to me why the word “stupid” is considered ableist? Because this seriously baffles me.
“Stupid” has been used by the medical community and the community at large to describe people with developmental disorders. My boyfriend was mocked by teachers and called “stupid” because he’s dyslexic. My doctor told my mother I was “stupid” because of...
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New rule: You don't get to say hateful,...
ineffable-hufflepuff:
Your opinions do not exist within a vacuum.
If you say something stupid, misinformed, hurtful, bigoted, problematic, or offensive, you don’t get to cry victim when people take issue with it.
You get to have an opinion.
I get to tell you when your opinion sucks.
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“Under Moffat’s watch the Doctor has morphed from an alien who loves humans and...”
– x (via draculemihawks)
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hardlyalec:
finalowen:
With the return of Madame Vastra this week, we really should praise the author who had the brilliant idea to create a lesbian Silurian who’s friendly with the Doctor.
… No, no, I don’t mean Steven Moffat, I mean Paul Cornell, who did the idea 14 years before Moffat. http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Sanki
#I still like Vastra as a character #But it really is funny how...
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Why Resetting Time is Annoying and Bad Writing
brilliantfantasticgeronimo:
everyonehatesstrudel:
In last night’s episode of Doctor Who, The Doctor managed to save the day by resetting time and making sure the episode never happened. Hooray! Or, not really. Because resetting time isn’t just a way to make sure everybody lives and everything becomes okay; its a way to make sure there was no point watching the episode at all.
In this...
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“It is important you don’t turn it into a fanfest. We can’t make this all about...”
– Moffat on not having any Classic Who Doctors on the 50th anniversary special. (X)
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What are "systems of oppression"?
takingslutback:
First of all, we are all born into different cultures with different personal traits that contribute to our identity. We can control some of these, others not so much. The wheel below shows dimensions of diversity. The inner circle shows race, age, physical ability, mental ability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and ethnicity. We are born with different variations...
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“3 percent of the decision-making in media comes from women. That means 97...”
– Independent Lens, PBS “Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines” (via ihopeyoucontinue4ever)
It also means that 97 percent of how men are portrayed in media are decided on by men. Something to remind MRAs and their ilk of when they complain about the stereotype of men as inept...
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For all the women I have loved who were dragged...
aiffe:
I’ve read a lot of great essays about how fandom is female-majority and creates a female gaze and a safe space for women and etc. But spend five minutes in fandom and you’ll have an unsettling question.
Why does a female-majority, feminist culture hate female characters so much?
It’s not a question of if it happens. You know it does. You can go into any fandom and see it. Some fandoms are...
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noonturnsmidnight:
No, I don’t think The Doctor’s name will be revealed at the end of this season. But the idea is complete bullshit anyway.
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“Moffat’s “feisty” female characters all seem to speak in the same quickfire,...”
– Matt Hills (reviewing Asylum of the Daleks)
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yuriadventure:
One of the most ridiculous concepts that society promotes is that we should always consider “the other side”, that we should always compromise, that the truth is always “in the middle. The problem with this is that it ignores how many stances and opinions are completely not compatible with each other.
Feminism, anti-racism, and other similar issues are not a friendly debate....
April 2013
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The Problem of Bromance
flarechaser:
WARNING: Since I’m tagging this as ‘bromance’ and I don’t myself like tagging hate (though I don’t really see this as hate?) most of this is going under the cut, and the good/neutral things I have to say about the issue are above it.
Bromance is a portmanteau of the colloquial term ‘bro’ and ‘romance’ and is commonly used to denote a particularly strong friendship between two...
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Because of the Times
makingfists:
It’s like this…
You’re fourteen and you’re reading Larry Niven’s “The Protector” because it’s your father’s favorite book and you like your father and you think he has good taste and the creature on the cover of the book looks interesting and you want to know what it’s about. And in it the female character does something better than the male character - because she’s been doing it...
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Quoting myself because it's relevant to an...
moniquill:
Where is it that your piece is set that there just aren’t any POC there? I mean, I’m sure there are places like that. Wherever it is that white people fly to when they take white flight comes to mind. Maybe you’re writing a story set in a gated community in the suburbs of Portland (Ranked Whitest city in the US based on census data!) Maybe you’re writing a story with a very limited...
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'The Baseline Is, You Suck': Junot Diaz on Men Who...
The Atlantic: It sounds like you're saying that literary "talent" doesn't inoculate a write—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You'd think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand people who are unlike you—whether we're talking about gender or another category. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Junot Diaz: I think that unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Without fail. The only way not to do them is to admit to yourself [that] you're fucked up, admit to yourself that you're not good at this shit, and to be conscious in the way that you create these characters. It's so funny what people call inspiration. I have so many young writers who're like, "Well I was inspired. This was my story." And I'm like, "OK. Sir, your inspiration for your stories is like every other male's inspiration for their stories: that the female is only in there to provide sexual service." There comes a time when this mythical inspiration is exposed for doing exactly what it's truthfully doing: to underscore and reinforce cultural structures, or I'd say, cultural asymmetry.
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“It’s not uncommon for people to come out as gay after being in heterosexual...”
– Eradicating biphobia within gay communities and gay media (via cbrachyrhynchos)
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Steven Moffat
yourfaveisproblematic:
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Stereotypes women using sweeping generalizations such as “Women are needy” and believes that “There’s a huge, unfortunate, lack of respect for anything male”
Thinks asexuality is boring and the Irene Adler in the original story was un-feminist
“You have to hand it to the Doctor for dumping a slightly needy girlfriend by...
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ancientavian:
hidden-agender:
sauntering-vaguely-downwards:
221cbakerstreet:
tridnet:
[AGGRESSIVELY DOESN’T WANT TO KNOW THE DOCTOR’S NAME]
It’s not even that I don’t want to know it
It’s that I don’t think Steven Moffat has the right to name him
oh my god yes
that’s it
that statement is why I’m so angry
Why can’t he just be named The Doctor? That’s as much a name as anything...
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byebyebananas:
I don’t know why people keep saying Moffat kills characters when he has never killed one properly.
Joss Whedon? Now, when he kills characters - that’s genuine. They die, you cry, it’s all honest to god.
Moffat ‘killed’ River but then again, not really. Sherlock died - eeeeeeeeh nope. Irene Adler….still alive! Rory died like a hundred time and then lived to be 80something. Amy...
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The Border House →
socialismartnature:
The Border House is a blog for gamers. It’s a blog for those who are feminist, queer, disabled, people of color, transgender, poor, gay, lesbian, and others who belong to marginalized groups, as well as allies. Our goal is to bring thoughtful analysis to gaming with a feminist viewpoint and up-to-date news on games, virtual worlds, and social media.
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Self-identified QPoC in online fandom - CALL FOR...
quequieresmrmorden:
If you ID as a queer person of color, and identify as being a part of at least one online fandom (any, on any website), would you be willing to IM/chat for an hour or less sometime soon for an interview? (You must be 18+.)
My project: Fan Studies and Media Studies often focus on white, cis, straight people, which is bullshit, so my Master’s thesis project is exploring the...
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thepanicmoon:
I want queer people to be able to turn on the tv and see themselves.
i want them to be able to watch a shitty romantic comedy with an obvious plot and see themselves, to watch a serious tv show about vampire killing FBI agents and see themselves, to watch a fairytale kid’s movie and see themselves-
i want queer people to count as people outside of shitty, offensive dramas that...
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“[TW: domestic violence]
The other question everybody asks is, why doesn’t she...”
– “Why domestic violence victims don’t leave” - Leslie Morgan Steiner (via childofweakness)
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“19% of prime time television characters are non-human while only 17% are women”
– A Profile of Americans’ Media Use and Political Socialization Effects: television and the Internet’s relationship to social connectedness in the USA ― Daniel German & Caitlin Lally
There are more “non-humans” on TV than women. Talk about unequal gender representation in the media.
(via...
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“Negative stereotypes about men, for example, can make them uncomfortable and...”
– Allan G. Johnson, The Gender Knot (via wretchedoftheearth)
This is the kind of point I was making about Moffat and Coupling earlier.
(via ktempest)
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durendals:
on a textual level, a female character can dress however she wants and shouldn’t be slut-shamed and hated for what she prefers to wear.
on a metatextual level, she might still have been designed with an intention to provide fanservice.
this means that criticising a design, as opposed to a character, is neither misogyny nor slut-shaming. being displeased about the way a character has...
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[TW: rape culture, ableism, racism]
sushiandpie:
zawehzaweh:
sushiandpie:
people do realize
that the reason a lot of people have issues with a lot of stuff that is automatically categorized under “social justice” and ignored/ridiculed/mocked or told to “get over it” for the sake of “fandom togetherness”
is because they actually experience these things on a daily basis or have been...
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enterprisingly:
here is when liking something problematic (tv show, movie, book, real person, ship, etc) is a problem:
when the person who likes said thing is unaware it is problematic
when the person who likes said thing is aware it is problematic, and:
makes excuses for its shitty views/problematic things
completely disregards what is wrong with it
dismisses legitimate criticism from...
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“If you look at the percentage of ethnicities and the percentage of women on...”
– Lucy Liu puts a new spin on Sherlock Holmes’s sidekick Watson (via elementarystan)
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myfavoriteredhead submitted to stfu-moffat:
I know you don’t usually get into the science behind Doctor Who, but I want to vent my frustration about the Rings of Akhaten and the logical/scientific flaws. First of all, if all that was needed to destroy the sun was an object that had belonged to someone who died/died young and had unfulfilled infinite potential futures, then the sun should...
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rocklobsters asked stfu-moffat:
Did you watch The Rings of Akhaten? Any thoughts on it?
Yes, I did watch it in fact! It was a pretty good episode considering. It flowed well, had a feel-good story, and Clara had actual development. It was the best episode I’ve seen in a VERY long time
That isn’t to say there weren’t problematic things in it though. The entire beginning was...
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“Yeah… I don’t know. I kind of hate-recap it. I don’t hate it that much, but I...”
– Franchesca Ramsey on Girls (via andthenwesetheartsaside)
YES, Chesca!
Tell them!
(via str8nochaser)
I DON’T KNOW IF I’VE PUSHED THIS INTERVIEW ENOUGH BUT EVERYONE PLS GO READ IT SHE IS AMAZING
(via faganchelsea)
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