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DiscourseMagnus
3d ago
There are so many layers of doublethink about it, but like many other bits of feminist media criticism, "men writing women" complaints are fundamentally horror at the thought that a man might ever have sexual thoughts about a woman without permission (both her permission and the permission of You, The Female Observer). Any realism concerns are a fig leaf. All of this is trivially revealed, say, when women make a "men writing women" complaint and are then embarrassed to discover that the writer was a woman writing for women about her real nigh-universal woman experiences which they already knew they shared when making the complaint.
Closely related: women policing "unrealistically" attractive female characters as a crude disguise for envy that they're prettier than them.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
3d ago
It's kino. Best show in years. Never mind best starwars show.
Take it from an old expanded universe grognard.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
You’re overestimating the effect weight has on a woman’s desirability. The most unattractive aspects of the median secular modern woman are tattoos and piercings, which are things she had to actively do to herself.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
3d ago
No, there is a female version of the hero's journey. It is not quite the same, notably the struggle tends to be more internal, but it exists.
Women have recurring mythic structures based on their own experiences too.
The recent feminist attempts to associate a queer style rejection of all structure and in particular of the causality structure of storytelling is not a woman thing, it is a feminist thing. And it's not even really that popular in its own circles.
Labyrinth starring David Bowie.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman starring Jane Seymour.
Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth.
There are plenty of high quality stories exploring the feminine side of the human condition. They're just a bit hard to find because you have to dig past the propaganda lists of explicitly ideologically feminist works. Not that those are necessarily bad, but they do hog the spotlight to a pretty insane degree.
Templexious
3d ago
Not sure, I don't browse space battles much, people were just talking about pokemom fics and most evil crops up as one of the must-reads.
These grants have strings attached, including but not limited to: national security requirements, clawback provisions, profit sharing clauses, etc.
Intel can't use this money to go build a bunch of factories in China, which would kind of defeat the point of the CHIPS act.
This is just restructuring the deal over that money that the US desperately wants to give companies like Intel, but only insofar as it unwinds it's dependence on Taiwan and China.
TitaniumButterfly
3d ago
He called the local game commission who told him that it didn't exist and that shooting it would be against the law.
I've received similar admonitions from government on other matters.
Hieronymus
3d ago
Aspects of Encanto are great, but central plot elements are treated in a very unsatisfying way.
The magic of the setting appears in several different guises: Roman Catholic folk miracles, brujería, Disney princess magic; but it doesn't behave consistently with any of them, doing instead whatever the writers thought was dramatically appropriate at the moment. The movie collapses the object and meta levels of its major symbol in an unprincipled way that feels like a cop out. And even once it's established that the symbolism of magic = family love is all that matters, the backstory revelations undermine it: Was it grandpa's death that brought about family love?
Great animation, good songs, exasperating writing.
AnonymousActuary
3d ago
Encanto was...2/3rds of an interesting story with some great music that suffered from the same problem as a lot of recent Disney - no actual antagonist.
TitaniumButterfly
3d ago
That's the second strong recommendation I've had for Blue Prince. The first told me to go in as blind as possible so I know almost nothing else about it except that it should indulge my predilection for keeping a hard copy journal as I play.
Guess I will!
DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
3d ago
In case anyone was wondering, here's the Tidus laugh scene in Japanese https://youtube.com/watch?v=ik4JI4D7rZQ
philosoraptor
3d ago
Principal photography on The Last Jedi was done in July 2016. Fisher was done all her scenes and finished an entire book tour in the remainder of the year, before dying from an out-of-the-blue heart attack around Christmas. She did not die "mid-filming".
deluxev2
3d ago
The only major webfictions I've read are hpmor, worm, Homestuck and origins of the species. Hpmor is good but you have to like/tolerate the main character. I enjoyed the first third of worm a lot but it kinda takes too long to wrap up the main mysteries (the resolution is satisfying though, once you get there). Homestuck is not really the same vibe.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
3d ago
It's especially remarkable because she was telling them all to trust the plan.
But she had no plan. We are informed in episode 9 that the 'Holdo Maneuver' of FTL ramming was 1 in a million, it can't be reliably repeated. So she was really just trying to flee, only to get spectacularly lucky.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
I have never found a source for this, but I am absolutely convinced that Admiral Holdo was just a way to recycle Princess Leia’s plot and lines after Carrie Fisher died mid-filming.
TitaniumButterfly
3d ago
Yeah, idk when the realization hit exactly, but the day was odd when it occurred to me that we would no longer be allowing Disney anything in our home. At least nothing made after the year 2000, with the occasional ad hoc exception.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
3d ago
Ah, yeah that is true.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
3d ago
The bit with the Chinese-inspired expansion, the one with the pandas? From the perspective of someone who will never play WoW, I felt that one was either a good joke or simply taking the piss.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
3d ago
Hmm.. I have played several, though the names elude me. I didn't particularly like Risk of Rain (2?), I did like Hades, but once again, a few hours of fun, then I got distracted and never picked it up again.
I need to start including links to clips from Asura's Wrath when explaining Xianxia to people.
Case in point:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gyfy2mtMeYo
Yes, when you have a human-sized character fighting against the fist of a god the size of a large moon, you're in proper Cultivation territory.
(I have never played the game. It's just so entertaining to watch that I've seen several hours of footage)
Dean
Flairless
3d ago
Well, uh... awkward. And a bit embarrassing. But glad it resonated, and thank you for answering.
Cheers!
The writers are a husband-wife pair (I think they said the wife is mostly responsible for the story, the husband mostly responsible for the art), the title literally has "Girl" in the name, and the main character is a woman.
That said, it does have the old-style male adventure feel. Sometimes as parody, sometimes seriously.
I think we can say it has broad-spectrum appeal. I went to their Facebook page and looked at the names of the people who liked the latest comic page, it seemed about 50/50 male-female split.
I guess it all depends on what a "girl" story is. If girl story is only defined as a story that men avoid then of course we won't find any "examples of "girl" stories that aren't cringe pandering softcore-relationship-porn wish fulfillment only (lame) women find appealing"
Next morning edit:
I almost didn't suggest Girl Genius out of fear that it was one of the cringe pandering stories. It has a love triangle where the main character is pursued by a heir-to-the-empire and a boy with a past that haunts him. And the boys are terrible simps, totally head over heels for the main character. And also surprisingly chaste/respectful, averting their eyes and blushing if they see Agatha in her (Victorian-style) underwear.
It has a lost society of Amazon women warriors. It's kind of a Princess Diaries plot, "ordinary women finds out she's secretly a lost princess and must learn how to fit in with her new society" type thing.
I would argue that it's very much a female story, even if the females reading it are the ones making up the "39% of physical science degrees awarded in the US."
philosoraptor
3d ago
receive an equity stake in Intel in exchange for cash grants
How does this differ from just buying shares?
The show bible for My Little Pony is on archive.org, and it has some interesting things to say about how they positioned the world. It's also from 2009 so it predates the woke spillover:
This sounds right to me, though the contrast between the corpospeak and the graphic design is certainly pretty jarring. I never watched it (not even when it was big), but there's a richness to the detail of the world and characters. Contrary to modern female character design, every character page has a "bad points" section as long as her "good points" section, and this is probably one of the reasons it had such a strong following in its heyday. Characters' bad points cause conflicts or avoidable problems, creating room for the ponies' good points to shine and resolve them.
The target audience was very carefully designed, and they knew they were targeting boys too (given the bronies of the 2010s, perhaps it worked a little too well). Some cut-down quotes from p65, if you want to read it in detail:
While MLP was a breakout exception, it's an existence proof that the suits used to know how to make girl shows that that boys could watch. But all we have now are the corpses of old franchises going to resyk to be turned into slop. Why haven't we seen other major media cater to girls-but-also-boys in this way, instead of the torrent of flawless mean-spirited girlbosses that we did get?
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