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eruthrosImagine that, for a variety of reasons, you are planning to continue to watch a show whose misogyny and isms make you sad and angry.
Now imagine that you can have a palate cleanser after every episode - anything in the world! (Except for Legend of Korra because it still isn't here whyyyyyy.) Old stuff, new stuff, movies, anime, live-action tv, specific episodes of a thing, anything at all. What would you watch to give yourself joy again?
(Sadly women-kicking-ass vids don't work, because when I'm feeling sad and angry at narrative misogyny they often feel like a lie: I watch them thinking not about the characters' moments of awesome, of which there are many, but about the characters' final fates on their shows or their reception in fandom or their creators' dismissal of them or whatever. This is the problem with watching "I'm Your Man" when sad, too.)
Now imagine that you can have a palate cleanser after every episode - anything in the world! (Except for Legend of Korra because it still isn't here whyyyyyy.) Old stuff, new stuff, movies, anime, live-action tv, specific episodes of a thing, anything at all. What would you watch to give yourself joy again?
(Sadly women-kicking-ass vids don't work, because when I'm feeling sad and angry at narrative misogyny they often feel like a lie: I watch them thinking not about the characters' moments of awesome, of which there are many, but about the characters' final fates on their shows or their reception in fandom or their creators' dismissal of them or whatever. This is the problem with watching "I'm Your Man" when sad, too.)
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Date: 2011-09-15 08:51 pm (UTC)Perhaps you want to give The Good Wife a try? I'm not saying it's fail-free; I am however saying that it's the most complex network show I've watched in a long while, full of tackling issues head-on, which includes women in the workplace. It's won me over despite being extremely realistic (?) in the sense of Adults Behaving Responsibly, which tends to bore dreamer-me, and featuring fuckloads of family relationship where the same thing applies, purely on the strength of the dynamics depicted, dynamics written by a husband-wife duo where she is not cosmetic but actually shapes and determines the storyline and the focus on the characters.
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Date: 2011-09-15 11:43 pm (UTC)I haven't tried The Good Wife - I tend towards speculative fiction pretty strongly - but I have heard good things about it; I'll keep it in mind.
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Date: 2011-09-15 08:54 pm (UTC)So, other things: Community? Happy Endings?
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Date: 2011-09-16 02:24 am (UTC)I second the rec for Ouran High School Host Club. Coffee Prince is also a joy, although there's a big spike in angst towards the middle.
One Piece! The manga owns my heart. It's a *long* series, and some people are put off by the artwork.
The Eyeshield 21 manga, despite being about football, is also one of my go-to series for a pick me up.
Skip Beat! is great for female friendship (Kyoko & Moko BFFs 4eva!), and a slowly developing romantic relationship. Kyoko is one of my all time favourite shoujo heroines (alongside Ouran's Harushi, and Perfect Girl Evolution's Sunako. PGE has fun with kinks, but I wouldn't rec it for silly things like *plot* or consistent *character development.*)
Hah. Sorry, I seem to have rambled on a bit.
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Date: 2011-09-20 01:52 am (UTC)I will add these to the list, because more happiness is better.
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Date: 2011-09-15 10:23 pm (UTC)Because it's just so happy to be what it is.
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Date: 2011-09-16 12:06 am (UTC)Also, Ouran High School Host Club. And Mononoke. And Toshokan Sensou. And and and (can totes enable you, if you like!)...
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Date: 2011-09-20 01:40 am (UTC)I put Mononoke on my stick in case of emergency needing-palate-cleansers! Ouran High School Host Club looks like a nice comedy, but I've mostly been into sff-y things lately; I'd love a PM with details about Toshokan Sensou, though, because it sounds great.
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Date: 2011-09-16 12:55 am (UTC)Princess Tutu is shaping up to be pretty awesome so far, I bet it would make a good palate cleanser type show, too.
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Date: 2011-09-20 01:42 am (UTC)I put Princess Tutu on the list - everyone says it's a ton of fun.
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Date: 2011-09-16 01:14 am (UTC)(I have been watching it a lot recently, however, and there's one scene near the end with Russell Brand that I tend to skip. Still. Fun movie.)
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Date: 2011-09-16 01:37 am (UTC)TV
The Middleman
Slings And Arrows
Movies
The Thin Man
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Date: 2011-09-16 02:08 am (UTC)Ranma 1/2. Wtf panda.
Coffee Prince.
Xena works too.
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