"Now, if you don't mind, I have to go lay on my bed and stare up at the ceiling in a maudlin manner whilst listening to some Escape The Fate, then go write down some bad poetry to express the feelings I feel deep in my wretched soul :D"
Dude, let me join you. Sounds like the perfect stress relief for this stupid book. XD
And yes, the Cast ladies think black hair = emo. What, did you think they have any idea how the world works?
"And you make some good points about feminism, too. Why is it still treated as a novelty that a society would be matriarchal in a story? I live in a country with one of those lady prime ministers! :D It was made a big deal of at first because Australia had never had a female prime minister, but we got over that pretty quickly. Just as long as you do your job, I don't care who's governing the country, male or female."
Thank you! I don't think the matriarchal society bit would be so bad, except that it's a blatant soapboxing and a sign of how times aren't changing, what with all of the ties to the Amazons (seriously, two of the four teachers seen thus far have taken names from Amazon queens).
"But that would have to mean conflict and require effort on the Casts' part for this story to improve."
That would also require the Casts to know what "sociology" means. XD
"Another thing I found ironic: So it's okay for Zoey to mouth off about how slutty Aphrodite is for blowing Erik in the hall, but she only passes judgement about him for a second about his behaviour in the situation and dismisses it quickly because, hey, he's HAWT, so he's forgiven? (I HATE it when people write HAWT, you have no idea!)"
To be fair, Erik didn't want to be blown and kept pushing Aphrodite away. So if that were all and Aphrodite weren't such a ridiculous Scary Sue, I could understand being pissed at her but giving Erik a free pass. Heck, if the Casts had played their cards right, they could have delivered a moral about how guys can be sexually harassed just like girls.
Don't worry though, there will be plenty of hypocrisy regarding Aphrodite and the treatment of Erik. :D We've just started it in Chapter 14!
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Date: 2011-02-19 02:08 am (UTC)Dude, let me join you. Sounds like the perfect stress relief for this stupid book. XD
And yes, the Cast ladies think black hair = emo. What, did you think they have any idea how the world works?
"And you make some good points about feminism, too. Why is it still treated as a novelty that a society would be matriarchal in a story? I live in a country with one of those lady prime ministers! :D It was made a big deal of at first because Australia had never had a female prime minister, but we got over that pretty quickly. Just as long as you do your job, I don't care who's governing the country, male or female."
Thank you! I don't think the matriarchal society bit would be so bad, except that it's a blatant soapboxing and a sign of how times aren't changing, what with all of the ties to the Amazons (seriously, two of the four teachers seen thus far have taken names from Amazon queens).
"But that would have to mean conflict and require effort on the Casts' part for this story to improve."
That would also require the Casts to know what "sociology" means. XD
"Another thing I found ironic: So it's okay for Zoey to mouth off about how slutty Aphrodite is for blowing Erik in the hall, but she only passes judgement about him for a second about his behaviour in the situation and dismisses it quickly because, hey, he's HAWT, so he's forgiven? (I HATE it when people write HAWT, you have no idea!)"
To be fair, Erik didn't want to be blown and kept pushing Aphrodite away. So if that were all and Aphrodite weren't such a ridiculous Scary Sue, I could understand being pissed at her but giving Erik a free pass. Heck, if the Casts had played their cards right, they could have delivered a moral about how guys can be sexually harassed just like girls.
Don't worry though, there will be plenty of hypocrisy regarding Aphrodite and the treatment of Erik. :D We've just started it in Chapter 14!