Sexism makes my head hurt

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I’m not really pleased about Steven Moffat taking over Doctor Who, mainly because I don’t think better writing is worth giving up the awesome three-dimensional female characters. (And whatever your complaints are about RTD, he’s presided over the creation of a wonderful variety of diverse and interesting female characters–Mrs. Moore, Harriet Jones, Blon Slitheen, Queen Victoria, Ida, Jackie, Rose, Donna…)

From Moffat:

“There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married - we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands.”

Before I read this, I loved his work. Now… I still think his writing is awesome, but Reinette seems accidentally cool, and Sally Sparrow’s “Sally Shipton” slip goes from cute to offensive.

And don’t forget:

“Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male.”

*sigh*

Whatever. I’ll be good and give him the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully the women on the staff will reign in his sexist tendencies, and we’ll get lots of good time travel stories. And if it sucks, I’ll stop watching. Life’s too short to put up with something that makes me want to bang my head against the wall.

Current Mood: sad

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Take the Writercon ‘09 Survey

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We’ve started planning for Writercon 2009. If you’re thinking about attending, please fill out our survey so that we can take your input into account. :)

If you’re unfamiliar with Writercon, it’s a convention for fanfic writers and readers. You can see the schedule and panel descriptions from 2006 via archive.org. (We’re going to have a new website up asap.) The con is moving into more of a multi-fandom direction this time around (it started out focused on the Whedonverse) so even if you hadn’t considered Writercon before, you may want to think about it now.

Current Mood: hopeful

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