I think I'll start saying males instead of men. If the males here don't mind? *NM*
Aeryn Send a noteboard - 09/04/2012 12:58:54 PM
The Hunger Games gets a ... different kind of review.
- 03/04/2012 03:37:39 PM
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"Written by a female with femalist themes"
- 03/04/2012 04:38:54 PM
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I grant that I haven't read the Hunger Games yet
- 03/04/2012 05:10:38 PM
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It's not. That's what shallow idiots say about things where women have power or physical skills *NM*
- 04/04/2012 03:45:22 PM
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I can only speak for the film, which was not feminist.
- 03/04/2012 06:01:18 PM
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Where do I start?
- 03/04/2012 07:43:18 PM
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But that is exactly what feminist means "it could have been a boy just as well"
- 04/04/2012 01:42:43 PM
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Makes me almost wish I knew the source material so I could judge what he is saying
- 03/04/2012 10:50:48 PM
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Why don't you think the Hunger Games are feminist?
- 03/04/2012 11:17:53 PM
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Why would I consider it to be femenist?
- 04/04/2012 01:51:24 AM
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I just don't consider feminism as something that has to be radical.
- 04/04/2012 05:42:59 AM
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Completely agree with your first paragraph
- 04/04/2012 08:22:35 AM
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To you "feminist" is a dirty word? To me, it means acceptable. Differences in definitions I think
- 04/04/2012 01:50:32 PM
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Unfortunately truly ordinary female characters are so rare that the exceptions stand out
- 04/04/2012 01:49:16 PM
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Fair enough
- 04/04/2012 02:33:22 PM
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Stop using female as a noun!
- 04/04/2012 03:51:13 PM
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It's stuff like that that makes you lose cred
- 04/04/2012 05:26:24 PM
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It's fairly derogatory as a noun, though, have to agree with Vivien on that one.
- 04/04/2012 07:30:18 PM
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I don't think Jens was really using it that way, though
- 04/04/2012 07:34:28 PM
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Of course he didn't intend it that way, but that's how it sounds.
- 04/04/2012 08:06:03 PM
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I understand that, but it's still such a ridiculous thing to get fussed over
- 04/04/2012 09:20:01 PM
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You are rather exaggerating just how "fussed" anyone did get, you do realize.
- 04/04/2012 09:51:22 PM
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Her tone was not just "informative". It was accusatory
- 04/04/2012 10:17:57 PM
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Female is perfectly acceptable to use in a medical/clinical setting. *NM*
- 04/04/2012 10:36:57 PM
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so if your problem is people using it disparagingly...
- 04/04/2012 10:45:10 PM
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That's not what I said.
- 04/04/2012 10:51:41 PM
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Which flies in the face of it's ordinary usage, which smacks of needless revisionism.
- 06/04/2012 09:42:15 AM
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Accusatory of what.i think you meant annoyed. So youre annoyed she was annoyed? Let's out this to re *NM*
- 09/04/2012 12:44:17 PM
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Are you a native English speaker, Legolas? (Clarified to preempt possible internet tears)
- 06/04/2012 09:29:28 AM
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Nope. (edit)
- 06/04/2012 07:23:54 PM
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Re: Nope. (edit)
- 07/04/2012 04:51:30 AM
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"Female that"? That's even worse.
- 07/04/2012 11:42:00 AM
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Ok.
- 07/04/2012 03:27:16 PM
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Let's try and whittle this down some so as to help you with the quotes. 
- 07/04/2012 05:42:32 PM
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- 07/04/2012 05:42:32 PM
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However he meant it, it was unpleasant to read. Just use "woman" instead. *NM*
- 05/04/2012 08:13:13 PM
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Re: It's fairly derogatory as a noun, though, have to agree with Vivien on that one.
- 05/04/2012 02:21:21 AM
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English is not French, and it's not German. Particularly the connotations of American English words
- 06/04/2012 09:39:00 AM
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The prospect of "losing cred" is not going to stop me from speaking my mind.
- 04/04/2012 10:30:03 PM
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That's the first time I have ever heard/seen anyone say that.
- 04/04/2012 08:19:02 PM
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Re: That's the first time I have ever heard/seen anyone say that.
- 04/04/2012 10:48:07 PM
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wait, so now you're claiming it's a grammatical thing? 
*NM*
- 04/04/2012 10:58:31 PM
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*NM*
- 04/04/2012 10:58:31 PM
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Re: That's the first time I have ever heard/seen anyone say that.
- 05/04/2012 02:08:26 AM
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Re: Stop using female as a noun!
- 05/04/2012 02:18:47 PM
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If dislike of the use of female as a noun makes me crazy town, I'm not the only crazy in here.
- 05/04/2012 05:59:16 PM
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Oh, so now we're using 'dislike' instead of 'should'. It's funny how you fell back on that.
- 06/04/2012 10:01:59 AM
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Fascinating.
- 06/04/2012 09:54:47 PM
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Re: Fascinating.
- 07/04/2012 03:54:26 AM
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Just in case (however slim that chance may be) you are genuinely interested in citations/references.
- 07/04/2012 05:34:37 AM
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What a joke. Do you even know what grammar is?
- 07/04/2012 05:57:40 AM
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Oh, come off it. This should be the point where you admit to being wrong.
- 07/04/2012 12:11:07 PM
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Sorry, no. Read better.
- 07/04/2012 02:23:10 PM
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Re: If dislike of the use of female as a noun makes me crazy town, I'm not the only crazy in here.
- 09/04/2012 03:09:06 AM
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Nothing wrong with your use of female. You should ignore those crazy foreigners saying otherwise. *NM*
- 06/04/2012 02:49:41 PM
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I think I'll start saying males instead of men. If the males here don't mind? *NM*
- 09/04/2012 12:58:54 PM
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You didn't see thmovie? She is far from passive
- 04/04/2012 01:46:16 PM
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Re: You didn't see thmovie? She is far from passive
- 04/04/2012 02:23:33 PM
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Interesting. I really need to read these books soon, evidently. *NM*
- 03/04/2012 10:52:43 PM
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And it appears the writer of the article completely missed a central point of the story *spoilers*
- 04/04/2012 05:44:40 AM
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The reviewer is kind of full of it, but makes a good point about the character
- 04/04/2012 04:22:30 PM
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