http://whedonesque.com/comments/13271
I found this and it seems very appropriate to what we were talking about in class. It's shocking and horrific and it's the first time i had heard about this tradgedy, but I think Joss makes a great point.
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Friday, January 23, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Female V.S Female
I thought this chapter was really interesting about the women fighting against themselves for supremacy. The line where douglas says, "These scenes tell us right away she's a no-good little bitch," was hilarious. I grew up with four sisters, all totally different from one another and you can imagine the conflicts that went on in our house with these four girls with extremely different, personalities and conflict styles. I find that there was this truth to what Douglas says, there is this conflict that is aroused in the kind of media showing these archetypes of the female character.
One of my favourite writers is Joss Whedon, who most of you might recognise as the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This is one of my favourite shows, but then I am a huge fan of anything that Joss Whedon Writes. As a quick Tangent, I think that Buffy as a TV show did so much to turn stereotypes on their heads, especially with its portrayal of women. There are so many different views of female characters and they are not your everyday typical stereotypes of what women do and are capable of, and even their reasoning behind their actions in certain situations.
Anyway, Another passion of mine is comics and Joss Whedon wrote two years worth of Astonishing X-Men comics. This run of the popular Marvel characters was fantastic and at the core of the book there were these two female characters. We have Kitty Pryde, a young Innocent mild mannered Jewish girl (Who, coincidentally, Joss Whedon modelled his Buffy character on) and Emma Frost, the ultra rich socialite super bitch. Both of these characters fall into Douglas' Disney example. Kitty is the Disney Princess. The One we are supposed to be rooting for who is brought into be the teams public relations gimmick as she is the pretty girl who can get on with anyone and who can deal with the public as she looks "Normal."
Emma is the "older, vindictive, murderous Stepmother or Queen wearing too much eyeliner and eyeshadow." This is even more amusing as Emma does indid refer to herself sometimes as Auntie Emma and has the Mutant codename of "White Queen." She is often portrayed wearing blueeyeshadow and lipstick, and in the past all Emma has been concerned with is power and possibly having been corrupted by the power she held.
I could go on for ages about this, but needless to say there are these archetypes that Douglas points out that even now are being used. My comfort in Joss Whedons use of these characters is that things are never black and white despite the apparent catfights between Kitty and Emma. Things get complicated and the characters were made multi-faceted. We sometimes are annoyed at Kitty and sometimes sympathetic to Emma.
I hope this wasn't Ridiculously long.
One of my favourite writers is Joss Whedon, who most of you might recognise as the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This is one of my favourite shows, but then I am a huge fan of anything that Joss Whedon Writes. As a quick Tangent, I think that Buffy as a TV show did so much to turn stereotypes on their heads, especially with its portrayal of women. There are so many different views of female characters and they are not your everyday typical stereotypes of what women do and are capable of, and even their reasoning behind their actions in certain situations.
Anyway, Another passion of mine is comics and Joss Whedon wrote two years worth of Astonishing X-Men comics. This run of the popular Marvel characters was fantastic and at the core of the book there were these two female characters. We have Kitty Pryde, a young Innocent mild mannered Jewish girl (Who, coincidentally, Joss Whedon modelled his Buffy character on) and Emma Frost, the ultra rich socialite super bitch. Both of these characters fall into Douglas' Disney example. Kitty is the Disney Princess. The One we are supposed to be rooting for who is brought into be the teams public relations gimmick as she is the pretty girl who can get on with anyone and who can deal with the public as she looks "Normal."
Emma is the "older, vindictive, murderous Stepmother or Queen wearing too much eyeliner and eyeshadow." This is even more amusing as Emma does indid refer to herself sometimes as Auntie Emma and has the Mutant codename of "White Queen." She is often portrayed wearing blueeyeshadow and lipstick, and in the past all Emma has been concerned with is power and possibly having been corrupted by the power she held.
I could go on for ages about this, but needless to say there are these archetypes that Douglas points out that even now are being used. My comfort in Joss Whedons use of these characters is that things are never black and white despite the apparent catfights between Kitty and Emma. Things get complicated and the characters were made multi-faceted. We sometimes are annoyed at Kitty and sometimes sympathetic to Emma.
I hope this wasn't Ridiculously long.
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