Zooey Deschanel's new show: worse than being in a bathtub full of scorpions

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Thu, 05/19/2011 - 22:17

#51

matthew.odonnell

The Fist Typist

From: Down Undaaaaaah!

Joined: 07/07/2009

Yeah, it would definitely be in my top five. So good. I just wish I could read the book that Karen Eiffel wrote. Someone needs to write that book.

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Thu, 05/19/2011 - 22:30

#52

ketamineman

Joined: 05/17/2004

_kit wrote:

This makes her sisters' awful show seem eminently watchable.

you ragging on bones?

coz you don't want to be ragging on bones

Thu, 05/19/2011 - 22:31

#53

ketamineman

Joined: 05/17/2004

lofivinyl wrote:

what is this shit?

she's a witch!

Fri, 05/20/2011 - 08:03

#54

dbdurden

Joined: 08/31/2010

lofivinyl wrote:

Matthew- I would like to address what you said vis jealousy. That makes twice now that you have accused critique of this show and the "manic pixie dream girl" trope as just being thinly-veiled jealousy.

I wonder if you realize how completely ignorant that stance is? "Female doesn't like it when the media reduces another female to a stereotype. OBVIOUSLY the critiquing female must be JEALOUS." Really Matthew? That's the best you've got?

Yeah, no. That really isn't how it works. (And quite frankly, I'm not responsible for whatever "vibe" you get off me. I am who and what I am. I am complicated and multi-faceted and a human being, just as you are. And I'm not aspiring to fashion myself in the likeness of some kind of limited trope. It's insulting that you would imply as much, but I am giving you a free pass this time, because I get the impression that you've never thought about this stuff much.)

Here's a fairly decent breakdown of what I'm trying to articulate here.

http://www.feministfrequency.com/2011/03/tropes-vs-women-1-the-manic-pix...

I encourage you to read it.

Deja vu--this sounds exactly like the "magical negro" Tyler Knight talked about in his posts (just switch out "black man" with "pixie dream girl"--and, again, white males are the oppressors).

Fri, 05/20/2011 - 08:27

#55

_kit

DILLIGAF

From: NYC

Joined: 05/10/2010

ketamineman wrote:

_kit wrote:

This makes her sisters' awful show seem eminently watchable.

you ragging on bones?

coz you don't want to be ragging on bones

what are you gonna do about it?

Sun, 05/22/2011 - 13:06

#56

ketamineman

Joined: 05/17/2004

_kit wrote:

ketamineman wrote:

_kit wrote:

This makes her sisters' awful show seem eminently watchable.

you ragging on bones?

coz you don't want to be ragging on bones

what are you gonna do about it?

i am scowling

i know you can't see me

but just know i am like so scowling right now

Sun, 05/22/2011 - 17:23

#57

_kit

DILLIGAF

From: NYC

Joined: 05/10/2010

ketamineman wrote:

_kit wrote:

ketamineman wrote:

_kit wrote:

This makes her sisters' awful show seem eminently watchable.

you ragging on bones?

coz you don't want to be ragging on bones

what are you gonna do about it?

i am scowling

i know you can't see me

but just know i am like so scowling right now

Fri, 04/06/2012 - 20:27

#58

pachyderm

Joined: 03/24/2012

meh. not that bad. i've seen much worse.

Fri, 04/06/2012 - 22:42

#59

nathaniel parker

Sprung

From: Outer spiral arm of Milky Way

Joined: 06/24/2005

I've never seen it. Does she ever do a number with a little plastic banjo/mandolin?