I love Ingrid Bergman, so how come I haven’t seen this one? Now I have to- it sounds like a very interesting movie.
Now I can’t comment on the interpretation as I haven’t seen it, but it reminds me of how wildly different one can see things. I remember reading “A Game of You” in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman and crying heaps over Wanda dying, as she was so kind and unselfish and didn’t deserved to die. I read it as a tragedy, and what makes a tragedy tragic is the death of those who least deserved it. But then I read a very angry essay which claimed as Wanda is transexual, it was all about transphobia, and her dying was only because being outside the norm she was also expendable. But I think this said more about the essay writer, than the actual story, because in my eyes Wanda was definitely not expendable, she was the emotional anchor in the story. But I agree that very often the non-normatives in media are the ones who are killed off. Even so it doesn’t mean it is always like this.
It all starts to remind me of fans who decide that a female character has gotten in the way of their slash ship, so she must be a huge raging bitch (and that plant in the corner proves their faves are doing it).
It awalys struck me as deeply misogynic- and so often it's women who says it! Along with the explanation they prefer slash because women are never given interesting characters in media.
I'm also a woman who really appreciates active female protagonists. I also enjoy a good dose of beautiful man occasionally, and if he's a little vulnerable along with his gorgeous broad shoulders and deep brown eyes and delicious ruffle-able hair, all the better.
Me too! Just about the only thing I like about outlander is that it’s the heroine who is older and the one with sexual experience and the hero is the virgin who the black-hearted villain lusts after.
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Date: 2017-05-11 08:38 am (UTC)I love Ingrid Bergman, so how come I haven’t seen this one? Now I have to- it sounds like a very interesting movie.
Now I can’t comment on the interpretation as I haven’t seen it, but it reminds me of how wildly different one can see things. I remember reading “A Game of You” in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman and crying heaps over Wanda dying, as she was so kind and unselfish and didn’t deserved to die. I read it as a tragedy, and what makes a tragedy tragic is the death of those who least deserved it. But then I read a very angry essay which claimed as Wanda is transexual, it was all about transphobia, and her dying was only because being outside the norm she was also expendable. But I think this said more about the essay writer, than the actual story, because in my eyes Wanda was definitely not expendable, she was the emotional anchor in the story. But I agree that very often the non-normatives in media are the ones who are killed off. Even so it doesn’t mean it is always like this.
It all starts to remind me of fans who decide that a female character has gotten in the way of their slash ship, so she must be a huge raging bitch (and that plant in the corner proves their faves are doing it).
It awalys struck me as deeply misogynic- and so often it's women who says it! Along with the explanation they prefer slash because women are never given interesting characters in media.
I'm also a woman who really appreciates active female protagonists. I also enjoy a good dose of beautiful man occasionally, and if he's a little vulnerable along with his gorgeous broad shoulders and deep brown eyes and delicious ruffle-able hair, all the better.
Me too! Just about the only thing I like about outlander is that it’s the heroine who is older and the one with sexual experience and the hero is the virgin who the black-hearted villain lusts after.