mokie | Sunday, 24 January 2010

Sunday, 24 January 2010

Posted at Twitter, because it's really too short to post here...

Even when they get along, #ANTM girls always split along race when they pick a friend to share a prize.
Russian strays ride the subway (bit.ly/62Cv0e via @Patricialicious) and take in human kids (bit.ly/HEtiW). Evolution's weird.
Is it #tweetlikeazombie day again?

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An example of wiki that does not work: the Bechdel Rule page at TVTropes.

The Bechdel Rule is a three-pronged standard for picking movies. As it was originally put forward: "I only go to a movie if it satisfies three basic requirements. One, it has to have at least two women in it, who, two, talk to each other about, three, something besides a man."

And the fans have tripped over themselves trying to apply this to their favorite works.

"Bleach" is invoked, even though the two female regulars don't speak to each other and one is a walking set of boobs. "Cowboy Bebop" is named, even though the second female is the androgynous kid who chitters to the dog, herself, inanimate objects, etc. Did Ed and Faye ever talk? Did Ed actually make sense? I have my doubts.

"Legally Blonde," a movie about a woman stalking her ex across the country and obsessing about how to get his attention and win him back, is mentioned because, "The protagonist's character arc is all about finding a purpose beyond a love interest, in fact." Is there a conversation in there that's not directly or indirectly about the ex? Maybe. Is it disqualified by the whole goddamn rest of the movie being one long, pink-hued conversation about a man? I would say so, yes.

"Friends" is named. The person who offered it gave no justification, because there isn't one. Allow me to sum up the entire female half of the series for you: chick who obsesses over the guy who obsesses over her and the lesbian who left him and a couple of other walk on chicks who leave him (all of which the rest of the cast talks about incessantly), chick who obsesses over the Tom Selleck, chick who is professionally weird.

But worst abuse of the wiki has to be the mention of Pride and Prejudice:

"Yes, all the lead heroines like Jane and Elizabeth have to talk about is marriage and men... but they also show that life for women shouldn't be like that [...] Since society did not quite agree that it was acceptable for women to have anything besides pleasing men on their minds, however, Austen's feminism comes not from using this trope but from demonstrating the need for it in Real Life." *

Or, "This is where I'm supposed to explain how this work fits the trope, but instead I'm going to admit that it does not and try to justify even bringing it up as relevant, because I'm a fangirl and can't accept that there are times when it's not appropriate to bring my favorite author into it. I will it to fit!"

It's hard to defend the value and validity of wikis when this sort of thing pops up.

* The capitalized terms are tropes, linked to within the original quote. The ellipse in brackets is where I omitted a line to shorten things up. The ellipse outside of the brackets is where someone failed high school English.

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