happy Easter 2 me Jesus has risen and I truly feel His presence God bless
Deanna Troi was a poorly written character and Marina Sirtis was an even worse actress.
I admit that the writers could have done more w/ Deanna b/c the TNG writers were notoriously sexist but Deanna Troi is a great character and I adore Marina Sirtis and also why are you trying to ruin my fun I mean damn
I don’t think that the TNG writers were notoriously sexist. Look at Dr. Crusher. She had a strong presence aboard the Enterprise whenever she stepped on the scene. She confidently clashed with Cpt Picard many times and never worried about anything besides the good work that she did. However,
Mz. Sirtas’s acting style was extremely bland. She was half human and half betazoid but she showed less personality than her betazoid mother and any human (besides Denise Crosby playing the super half-assed Tasha-Yar).
You do know that Gates McFadden was literally fired because she spoke out against sexism pertaining to her character, right?
Denise Crosby left the show because they gave her hardly anything to say
Marina Sirtis was constantly objectified and told she was too fat to wear the normal uniform and was only allowed to wear it when she lost weight
And I’m not denying that Star Trek has had great female characters but they were certainly not treated as well as the male characters nor were they given enough to do
Were NOT sexiest?!?! You are joking me.
Marina talked about how she was on a constant diet to fit into those insane outfits, which had spandex in them anyway.
Those scenes where she eats chocolate, they would give her a bucket to spit the chocolate out. On top, they would give her milk chocolate because she doesn’t like that and so she wouldn’t want to eat it without feeling sick, so just spit it out into a bucket. All so she could fit into her outfits.
Also the amount of times I have watched and worked on a TNG episode and note how the men are eating, but not the women is shocking.
One of her favourite episodes is a Fistful of Data’s because she didn’t have to wear one of those outfits.
Gates stood up for her character. She played a single mother yet she NEVER got credit for raising a child as smart as Wesley. It was always the men. She stood up for herself, her character and single women who don’t get credit everywhere. And her payment was to be fired. You can see her talk about this at many comic cons with Marina.
She was lucky that EVERYONE just rebelled against that and she was brought back. But too this day she hasn’t watched series 2 of TNG. And can you blame her? She asks for more depth and she just gets fired. Well you know, good on her for doing it! She deserved to be heard.
Denise. Well. Let’s be honest, I see where Denise was coming from. She did deserve more. Tasha was barley given the chance to grow, barely any words. She deserved more than to be remembered as the lady who shagged Data. She was head of security and she saved the men more than once in the few episodes she was in. She stood up, and she left. Have you seen code of honor?! Johnathon Frakes has called out what shit that is at Comic Cons defending Denise.
The fact that ALL the women of Star Trek (yes, ALL OF THEM. In EVERY series has dealt with this shit) managed to act and slay in outfits where they couldnt breath (some have literally passed out from these outfits or been left crying because they hurt them so bad) is nothing short of amazing.
I mean heck. Marina has had to deal with Deanna being sexually assaulted TWICE for plot development (which she has spoken about and how it was the hardest thing she had to do in Star Trek).
You can not say that TNG did not suffer with sexiest writers. In fact, you can’t say Star Trek on the whole hasn’t suffered with them. It is well noted how bad it has been. All the Star Trek actors spoke about it.
You can not like their acting, that’s fine and completely fine everyone enjoys different things, but you will damn respect them as women in this industry who have stood up for themselves and note the complete shit they have had to deal with.
Also while I am bloody at it. The amount of women SHITTED on in acting for having bland characters or whatever is stupid.
Have you ever thought that maybe, if they were given decent story lines this wouldn’t happen?! Perhaps if the writers actually cared about these women beyond their breast and hips size, we would of gotten better story arcs?
Note how Marina said when she was given a proper Starfleet uniform suddenly she could solve problems which Data and Geordi couldn’t even do?!
Maybe if Denise was given a chance she could have worked like the champ she is (she has worked on Gates theater stage) that perhaps she could of given more?
Actors are as good as the material they are given.
I will never not reblog a stirring defense and acclamation of Star Trek women, particularly Marina Sirtis.
Fun fact: in the Robin Hood episode Troi and Crusher were the only characters that did not sword fight (they had vases to smash over people’s heads instead) DESPITE the fact that Marina Sirtis and Gates McFadden were the only cast members who could fucking fence.
At this point, when I see a “-justice” blog (or more-or-less “REAL JUSTICE” sort of blog) I know it’s going to have shitty opinions.
Marina Sirtis did the best she could with what she was given. They all did. Bland? My Deanna? Have these people seen her trying to deal with her mother?
Seriously though: Denise Cosby deserved better. Her character deserved better: a better backstory (RAPE GANGS are you fucking SERIOUS???), a better chance, BETTER WRITERS. I mentioned this somewhere, but she was pretty amazing in one of the early “alternate Enterprise” storylines (coincidentally one of the best-written of the early storylines according to several of the actors IIRC).
What I’m really saying is THANK YOU for standing up for the women of ST:TNG, lovely bloggers that did so.
Lol…the fact that people are getting seriously upset and offended by Banksy’s Dismaland makes me feel like I must live in an art “bubble”… like people think this a real amusement park? What. Its not an ~*edgy*~ version of Disneyland, its an installation meant to provoke an audience.. Its supposed to be creepy and confusing. Also he’s always made over the top, in your face art…almost always focused on politics and consumerism.
Tl;dr Seeing non-artists react to art makes me laugh sometimes
I’ve seen people commenting on and critiquing it from an art perspective, so we run in different circles maybe?
like, I can give you the five hundred words about why every time i see something of Banksy’s i want to bang my head on something hard.
I feel like it’s very hard to describe anything Banksy has ever done without using the word sheeple sincerely, which is why he irritates me as an artist. He’s the guy in your freshmen college art class who does a - shit, I don’t know, a painting of a mcdonald’s as a church with ronald mcdonald hanging out little cups of pepsi for communion for his first project, y’know?
and then the professor says hm i think this is a solid idea but have you considered expanding it maybe? because they’re too polite to say oh gooooooooooooood
and the freshman art dude says no no, you don’t get it, see, the mcdonald’s is a church. because today, in america, people idolize fast food and convenience over god or morality, not that i believe in any sky fairies myself, let me tell you about the flying spaghetti monster
and everyone in the entire class is silently screaming shut UP JOSH
and the next project he does is a painting of the statue of liberty, but fat, or wearing low rise jeans instead of robes? and the psychic energy of twenty-eight full grown adults thinking shut up shut up shut up can’t even touch him, he’s going to spend all semester doing this and oh god what if you ever get assigned to give feedback on his work, what are you going to say? if you express any criticism whatsoever he will assume you don’t “get it” and explain it to you for about a hundred days and you will have to stab yourself with a paintbrush to escape
fuck. where was I? anyways. banksy is the spirit of That Art Dude, and dismaland is the spirit ofThe Semester You Got Stuck in that Art Class with the Art Dude.
EDITED TO ADD:
i wrote all that, and then I googled images of banksy’s art just to reassure myself that I wasn’t being too harsh, and immediately found his piece on the Mona Lisa holding a rocket launcher.
like. the problem is not that BANKSY is too INTELLECTUAL and his pieces are too COMPLICATED for pleb minds, okay? it’s the mona fucking lisa with a gun, EVERYONE GETS IT.
i’m doing all this research on when “like” is used as a filler vs. “um” or “uh” or whatever & i’m really loving this
basically my fav pattern so far is how these teen girls use “like” pretty exclusively when they’re sharing these concepts that are unknown to them or just guess work, ya know?
they’ll say “here’s the, um, living room” but then they’ll say “in this picture my brother is, like, howling or something”
& i love it i mean i love the way they use “like” to express uncertainty and idk pensiveness? “um” expresses a break in a sentence, some disfluency. but “like” holds actual semantic meaning and is an indicator that expresses what follows isn’t gonna be totally accurate but just to the speaker’s best estimation.
i mean, he’s, like, howling or something, right?
girl talk is cool talk
I actually just wrote a 45 page thesis on this so here’s some more info on that if you wanna know more.
1. Like used in this way can be considered either a discourse particle or an approximative adverb. A discourse particle is a focusing agent which shows that hte information directlyt foloowing it is the main point of the utterance. It’s a language-efficiency tool and makes it more direct. IT is also used in moments of high excitement for this reason–you want people to know the point and you want it to hit them in the fucking face. An approximative adverb like is used to show that the information it’s modifying is imprecise and therefore, approximate.
2. This isn’t girl talk! Like’s usage is barely different among genders of the same age group, but is heavily stratified by age. THe reason it’s commonly thought of as “girl talk” is because it illustrates uncertainty and impreciseness–this is an example of sexism in language, because it intones that women don’t actually know what they’re talking about (FUCK THAT). It was once true that like was used primarily by women, but with shifting power paradigms, its usage is becoming more equal by gender.
3. You mentioned before that you uncovered this information concerning like while researching its relation to uh or um: this usage of like is known as a hesitation marker and has no semantic content, and is therefore unrelated to the type of like you’re describing. Hesitation marker like is often thought of as all the unconventional uses of like which is why people think that it’s a garbage filler word (though I don’t think there’s any such thing as a garbage word tbh), but it has so many unique uses which aren’t represented in English in other forms.
4. FUNFACT: A related use of like is as a quotative complementizer. I won’t delve into the syntax portion of what a complementizer is, but the quotative part obviously refers to quoted information. Here, like can be used to show either that the quoted information is estimated to the best of the speaker’s ability or that there is a storytelling aspect, typically with exaggeration or acting. YOU CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE AND YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW IT. When the quoted information preserves the tenses in the original utterance, it is intended to be a direct quote. When the verb tenses are adapted to the present conversation, it is the second category, and is either an exaggerated quote or the speaker is just trying to convey the gist of the original utterance.
5. Language fucking rules.
I love you, Marie. I was even going to text you after work about this…I wanted to know your sources!
marvel studios is going through a moment where they could literally pick any character and make a successful movie if they wanted to. for fucks sake they made one about a team that not even most marvel comics fans really cared about, when no one was asking for a movie about them, a team that features a talking tree and a talking raccoon, and it had the fucking biggest box office of the year so far. stop giving me those weak ass excuses for the lack of female led movies
Can you imagine trying two make a late night cup of cocoa or mug cake or something, and it’s 3 a.m., and you try so hard to stop the microwave before it goes off but No. You missed it by one second. And for the next 30 seconds, one by one every single person in the house filters into the kitchen to give baleful looks to both you and the microwave.
OTP: who buys this microwave for a laugh, and who wakes up earlier and uses it every single morning JUST to demonstrate EXACTLY how bad of a decision that purchase was
A few fun facts! All of this I learned after being near death and spending a week in critical care in a hospital that didn’t offer any sort of charity assistance and I was uninsured.
(Some do, so if you think you’re f’d, check to see if they offer anything first.)
First of all: while dealing with a terrible kidney infection, a 104 fever that had been going for a week, and who knows what else, a nice lady from their finance department came to me with some paperwork to sign. Luckily I was so out of it (I had even spelled my name wrong when I first checked in because I was so out of it) that I said I couldn’t (which was true).
I later learned what she was asking me to sign was some sort of a “lien” which would have given them all the rights to come after me and re-posses any property I had later to make up for the debt.
So, whatever you do when you’re sick, if you don’t understand something do NOT sign it.
Since then I got calls for a few years from a debt collector, I never talked to them, said I wasn’t available, whatever. Eventually they stopped calling.
I owe a hospital about $700,000 for having the audacity to have a kidney infection and an autoimmune disease which were trying to kill me simultaneously.
That was probably 5 years ago. From what everyone has told me, it can’t effect my credit. Medical debt can not effect your credit. Also, now that I’m no longer being harassed by those debt collectors, I never hear from anyone.
To me in the end, I learned to simply walk away from it, and I won, as far as I can tell.
I know the OP was making a joke, but I thought I’d put out some info in case anyone out there has the unfortunate luck to get critically sick in the US without insurance, because seriously it’s really fucking expensive.
Important info because my snarky butt is uneducated
DJ: “It’s a tragic day for all men today—Leonard Nimoy died. Most boys had a Star Trek phase growing up. You girls probably have trouble telling the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek, but trust me, it’s a big deal that he’s gone.”
Me: …
Me: Seriously? What year is this?
Leonard Nimoy is rolling in his fucking grave
Fake geek boys don’t even know that women are why Star Trek got on air to begin with (Lucille Ball of Desilu productions!), women are why it stayed on air (fangirls writing letters to Paramount & NBC keep it from getting dropped!), women ran the first conventions (Joan Winston!) and women wrote the first guidebooks (Bjo Trimble!).
Fake geek boys don’t know that Leonard Nimoy was an outspoken feminist who campaigned to get equal pay for the female actors on the show, and who after his Star Trek days continued to advance feminist goals like fat body acceptance.
Star Trek is women’s territory. Get the fuck outta my sci-fi, fake geek boys, and take your ignorant sexism with you.
You cannot possess me for I belong to myself But while we both wish it, I give you that which is mine to give You cannot command me, for I am a free person But I shall serve you in those ways you require and the honeycomb will taste sweeter coming from my hand.
do you really think it’s a good idea to take military advice from the French
REBLOGGING BECAUSE OF EVERYTHING OMFG
Historically the “style” died in 1914 because the French would wear bright blue and red uniforms and the British said “that’s a bad idea” and the French said “we look great” then they got sniped.
