I... don't really understand why people are arguing. Few people seem to be actively denying that networks are motivated by profit and female characters seem to be less popular blah blah. What people seem to be fighting about is the implication that they shouldn't be upset or pissy b/c of it. And while I do think it's rather myopic to place the sole blame on CBS or whoever else is in charge it's equally myopic to be like LULZ WE LIVE IN A SEXIST SOCIETY DEALWITHIT.GIF. The situation goes far deeper than just pointing a finger at one person and calling "sexist!" It's a complex interaction of sexism within the media and within audiences.
This whole musical cast members thing was just fucked-up and required yet another fucked-up move to set things right again. It's like some kind of law of conservation of fuckery or something. Fuckery doesn't cancel out b/c it brought about a desired outcome. You don't have negative fuckery. It's just even more and increasingly complex fuckery.
... I had some kind of point in there somewhere but it got lost in fuckery mathematics
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Date: May. 29th, 2011 12:31 pm (UTC)I... don't really understand why people are arguing. Few people seem to be actively denying that networks are motivated by profit and female characters seem to be less popular blah blah. What people seem to be fighting about is the implication that they shouldn't be upset or pissy b/c of it. And while I do think it's rather myopic to place the sole blame on CBS or whoever else is in charge it's equally myopic to be like LULZ WE LIVE IN A SEXIST SOCIETY DEALWITHIT.GIF. The situation goes far deeper than just pointing a finger at one person and calling "sexist!" It's a complex interaction of sexism within the media and within audiences.
This whole musical cast members thing was just fucked-up and required yet another fucked-up move to set things right again. It's like some kind of law of conservation of fuckery or something. Fuckery doesn't cancel out b/c it brought about a desired outcome. You don't have negative fuckery. It's just even more and increasingly complex fuckery.
... I had some kind of point in there somewhere but it got lost in fuckery mathematics