Language Liberalism Freethought Birds
Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
Is it wrong that I, when watching the opening scenes of Jackie Chan's The Myth, I kept hoping that Princess Ok Soo would just take off that long robe, climb out of the burning wagon on the edge of the cliff, unhitch the horses, and gallop away?
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I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 5:16 PM, October 25, 2009
C. L. Hanson had this to say...
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At 5:56 PM, October 25, 2009
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->I haven't seen that particular film, but I hate that sort of thing. Having a woman die to set up the plot has become such a standard trope that it often doesn't even occur to filmmakers that a woman (in such circumstances) might have had a thought for her own survival.
I wrote about this here with respect to the film Ice Age.
Well, actually (I'm still watching the movie as I write this) she didn't die, she was rescued. But she's still the mcguffin.
I looked at that post you mention. An amazing number of people made an important point without even realizing it. As one said, "the genders were irrelevant." That being so - why were they all male?
It's because male is the default. The huge number of shows and movies that have 1 female character in them is doing the same thing: making women into some specialized sub-category (the girlfriend, the wife, the pregnant victim*, the dead victim), while men are the people.
* One of the things I liked best about "Fargo" was that the cop was still pregnant at the end - she didn't go into labor at some ridiculous moment. It's gotten so I cringe whenever I see a pregnant woman in a cop/action movie.
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