Can someone please draw me fan art of Jim Kirk triumphantly wearing a “this is what a feminist looks like” t-shirt while making this face:
“WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT, PUNK?”
Haha, like this?
Personal side note? I don’t think I really understood how much we need feminism until I watched this show. Its a window back into it’s time, and it really demonstrates both the problem (its still totally problematic and there are TONS of signs of the times in there) and how hard people were working to build a better future. Naw.
And yet there’s people that still argue about Jim Kirk being a feminist. smh
My daily objective is less about goal achievement and more about regret management.
Now I know why the knocking on the door bugged me so much.
Did you feel uncomfortable when “Donatello” knocked on the door, before Sam told him to come in? Did something itch under your skin?
That’s because the knock was a call and response, and Asmodeus didn’t finish the response.
Anybody remember Roger Rabbit? There’s a scene in it where the bad guy finds Roger, who’s hiding, by rapping shave and a haircut on the bar, because a Toon is physically incapable of leaving that call unanswered. I guess a more modern example is the Red Robin jingle– REEEEEEEED Robin! (Yum!)
You hear the first part, the call, and your brain supplies the response automatically. When you don’t hear it, or it’s incomplete, as the knock on the door was in this episode, something feels off, even if you don’t know what it is.
That’s exactly what this was– silent storyelling (well, not silent, but yannowutimeen) is letting us know that something isn’t right here.
Dunno if that was scripted or a directing decision or what, but it was BRILLIANT.
I noticed when I rewatched this scene yesterday that Donasmodeus does eventually give the correct “two knocks” response… AFTER he gets the information he’d been fishing for from Sam, he knocks twice on the table. There was your two bits.
Paradoxically, as religious patriarchy has loosened its moral grip on the West, the doctrine of monogamous romance has become ever more entrenched. Marriage was once understood as a practical, domestic arrangement that involved a certain degree of self-denial. Now your life partner is also supposed to answer your every intimate and practical need.
Polyamory is a response to the understanding that, for many of us, this ideal is impractical, if not an active cause of unhappiness. People have all sorts of needs through their lives – love, companionship, care and intimacy, sexual adventure and self-expression – and expecting one person to be able to meet all of them is not only unrealistic, it’s unreasonable. Women in particular, who often end up doing most of the emotional labour in conventional, monogamous, heterosexual relationships, don’t have the energy to be anyone’s everything.
I don’t expect anyone to be everything to me. I want freedom, and I want to be ethical, and I also want affection and pleasure. I guess I’m greedy. I guess I’m a woman who wants to have it all. It’s just that my version of “having it all” is different from the picture of marriage, mortgage and monogamy to which I was raised to aspire.
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