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So do we have an opinion on the Lynne Ramsay situation?
Calum Marsh has an essay on it here that I mostly agree with, so of course I'm going to nitpick something:
Would you say the word "drama" is gendered in the way he says it is? My exposure to people using it is mostly fandom_wank and similar places, so maybe it's like that in other venues, but my impression is it's mostly neutral.(Certainly moreso than "hysteria" which he compares it to.)
No, I'd say he's way off base. I've heard "drama" used in that sense about shenanigans by men at least as much as those by women. Hysterical is definitely a gendered term, and I think "oversensitive" is historically applied to just about everyone but straight white Christian men as a way of dismissing their reactions.
I'm inclined to say it is gendered in that way, but don't have any data to put my hands on.
I have said it about men, but I'm not sure the culture does.
I'm now on a Joseph Gordon-Levitt kick, and so rented The Lookout. For some reason I was afraid of watching that movie. I can't recall if I was afraid of the abuse of memory-loss as a plot point ("we're making him our point man because he'll never remember that he helped us rob a bank!") or because I was afraid of a sad ending (seriously, the trailer is the last half-hour of the movie). I want to rewatch Brick, but am sure that I bought that already, and am hesitant to buy it again because it's no longer on this current iteration of laptop.
But, Lookout was good. I'm not sure it was consistent with the cognitive stuff, and the chicks dropped off the radar fast (but they made that easy to bear by making sure Luvlee got dumber and dumber the more screentime she got).
We're watching The Hobbit for the second time in 24 hours, and I am quite glad we didn't take the kids to see it at the theater, because of the length. The only thing that really scared Dillo (6) was the ringwraith bit (not the wargs, which surprised me - those are scary!).
I think Martin Freeman is very, very good. I keep saying, "I love Bilbo." He has such excellent timing.
I hope the franchise propels him on to a prominent career.
Went to Olympus Has Fallen last night and it pretty much SUCKED.
We went to see the Hobbit again yesterday, too. Bilbo has always been my favorite Hobbit, too, and Martin Freeman just makes him better. The Bilbo-Gollumn scenes are just wonderful, especially when Bilbo decides not to kill him.