I mean – *hangs head in shame* - we gave the world Benny Hill after all.
As I kid I was really weirded out that I was meant to laugh as a man chased a half-naked unwilling woman about the place. I mean WTF?
Not just at the views expressed, but that fact that he actually SAID THEM OUT LOUD!
I am with the people that think he's saying what other male writers think but are smart enough to never actually say. Victim of his own stupidty.
but what is she if not the manifestation of what I’ve referred to before as Moffat’s ultimate fantasy – a feisty, sexy, clever woman who is most definitely NOT needy or hunting for a husband? She doesn’t want to tie the hero down because she’s not interested in domesticity herself.
Bingo! I've always thought Moff's Women are less self-inserts and more sexual fantasies. (That being why the cries of "MARY-SUE!" tend to confuse me somewhat. The only obvious Nu Who Sue-Companion is Rose and Rusty admitted as much so it's not really a secret there.)
I just don't think his writing is sexist. TBH I was more "OMGWTF" about certain things in Rusty's time on the show (women never leaving of their own volition, women defined by their relationships with men, women having their worth based on whether a man wants to shag them) and, well, fandom itself ain't as feminist as it likes to think.
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Date: 2011-03-21 02:30 am (UTC)I mean – *hangs head in shame* - we gave the world Benny Hill after all.
As I kid I was really weirded out that I was meant to laugh as a man chased a half-naked unwilling woman about the place. I mean WTF?
Not just at the views expressed, but that fact that he actually SAID THEM OUT LOUD!
I am with the people that think he's saying what other male writers think but are smart enough to never actually say. Victim of his own stupidty.
but what is she if not the manifestation of what I’ve referred to before as Moffat’s ultimate fantasy – a feisty, sexy, clever woman who is most definitely NOT needy or hunting for a husband? She doesn’t want to tie the hero down because she’s not interested in domesticity herself.
Bingo! I've always thought Moff's Women are less self-inserts and more sexual fantasies. (That being why the cries of "MARY-SUE!" tend to confuse me somewhat. The only obvious Nu Who Sue-Companion is Rose and Rusty admitted as much so it's not really a secret there.)
I just don't think his writing is sexist. TBH I was more "OMGWTF" about certain things in Rusty's time on the show (women never leaving of their own volition, women defined by their relationships with men, women having their worth based on whether a man wants to shag them) and, well, fandom itself ain't as feminist as it likes to think.