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Ballad - (You’re) Having My Baby

yougottaletitout:

What a lovely way of saying how much you love me.

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So I was just watching Prom Queen and Finn’s 8 shirt was the same one he wore then too…

SO KORRA~

The Legend of Korra: Best show with the best characters and the best backgrounds and the best research and the best animation and the BEST EVERYTHING.

Basically.

Annnnnnnd the ninetails’ name is kurama. I’m pretty sure Yu Yu Hakusho just cried.

Just. stop.

STOP.

STOOOOOOOPPPPPPPP.

I SWEAR TO THE HEAVENS THAT IF THERE IS ANOTHER FREAKIN’ BROFIST IN NARUTO I AM GOING TO THROW SOMETHING ACROSS THE ROOM. BROFISTS DO NOT SOLVE ANYTHING, THEY JUST MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE A FOOL.

Aaaaaaaaaad yet another holiday special that makes me really uncomfortable. Whelp.

Maybe one day I’ll be able to sit through one and not cringe.

WHY DID EVERYTHING ON MY D.A. JUST WIGGLE AT ME?

CAUSE IT’S HALLOWEEN, SILLY.

ALSO. TURN ON YOUR ASK BOX SO I CAN TALK TO YOUUUUUUU.

PWEEEESE?

(Source: thisismyangrypolitcalblog)

Words which have an etymology that I will never understand: bosom.

There are no phonological indicators that it should be pronounced the way it is. It just makes no sense!

Children’s TV and Representation.

notaiden:

humanitarianhedgehog:

Not Another Aiden: humanitarianhedgehog replied to your post: I don’t watch TV often. At…

notaiden:

humanitarianhedgehog replied to your post: I don’t watch TV often. At least, not…

My entire young childhood was based on Wishbone, Bill Nye, Magic School Bus and Lambchop. Sort of reverse order chronologically. Kids TV was so very lovely back then. And I grew up without cable too! Parents…

A lot of the ‘educational shows’ nowadays are cartoons, or so I’ve seen from watching Nicktoons before 4pm or so. I’ve not found PBS’s new kids shows. I think the last one I remember is Cyberchase, which came out just as I pretty much grew out of those shows. Those are pretty balanced, but anything sort of past the target age of ~7/8 ish is really split. I remember WB having a good balance with their saturday morning cartoon lineup, but since the advent of all cartoons all the time channels (or easier access to cable)becoming the norm, these ‘power blocks’ have dropped drastically.

And I’ve actually had to look at it for a club, but nearly all of the shows on the cartoon network major line up are male. Powerpuff Girls is literally the only show on their site with a female character as their header.

And the only major shows I’ve heard about for girls are My Little Pony, Barbie shows and Winx Club. (And that last one is a mess.)

I babysit for girls at whom the barbie movies are targeted and even they are sitting and critiquing them. (One of them called it ‘racist and sizeist’ and I actually almost died of joy because she’s not even a teen yet and is aware of these things.) Their parents are totally on the ball at countering the messages. But most parents aren’t going to do that or even know where to start.

(However, I’ve seen some of My Little Pony and what I’ve seen is really good, and I’m just sad that the best show for young girls features horses and not actual girls.)

I have so many feelings on sex/gender representation in the media. It’s almost unhealthy.

Haha, I have quite a few feelings myself.  They’ve only gotten worse as my honourary nieces/nephews and god kids have hit ages where they’re more aware of “girl things” and “boy things”.

Is Cartoon Network really that bad?  The little kids I know are all about Disney and Nickelodeon so I haven’t seen what CN’s about.  Disney is pretty bad with their lineup of shows that are split almost entirely along gender lines (focusing mainly on stereotypical tween girls).  Nick is about as bad, but they have more sitcom-style shows with male leads so there’s more crossover appeal.  Which is saying something pretty important as a show with a boy lead is generally considered “neutral” while a show with a girl lead is automatically written as a “girl show” for no apparent reason.  I don’t remember it being that way when I was a kid, everyone loved Alex Mac because it was a show about a girl who did cool stuff, not a girl who spent every episode worrying about clothes and boys.

MLP is pretty cute.  I can’t get as into it as some people on Tumblr, but it’s not something I worry about the kids watching.  Barbie though…I have banned all things Barbie when I’m babysitting the same way I’ve banned all violent games.  None of the parents really encourage her line themselves, but for some reason people will insist on getting little girls Barbie even if they don’t ask for it.  I don’t mind the dolls on their own (though I do insist on buying the atypical dolls like Chandra or Ken when asked for them), but the stories make me want to scoop the kids up and take them to a gender neutral island where they can figure out their interests without societal interference.  People say that girls just like princesses, but it’s impossible to actually test that out when everything they look at says they should like ponies and dresses instead of cars or sports.

Cartoon Network is terrible nowadays. It started mainly when they stopped showing only cartoons… There used to be far more ensemble shows rather than the two guys and a girl format.

I don’t really pay much attention to disney outside of the major movies, but I’m not fond of their live-action shows that i’ve seen. I don’t actually watch much Live-action TV in general. But Nick isn’t that entertaining to me, either. I watch TV more for the older demographic action shows, but a lot of what I’ve seen makes me sad about representation.

The whole “boy=default” thing is such a subtle thing that creates such major issues. I can’t even with it. There’s been a study that 70%  (or 80% I can’t remember) of characters in crowd scenes are male. Like what is that? Females are about 50% of the population and they are so very, very underrepresented… But aside from in television it also happens in children’s literature (Like all of those morality stories when the main character is an animal, they nearly always happen to be referred to with male pronouns.)

(Also happens in manga. Shounen (Boy’s stuff) has a lot more variety of story than  Shoujo (Girl’s stuff). Makes me sad, because I always want to read a more female oriented story except it’s 90% romance…)

I missed out on the barbie craze by making my Mulan doll default leader of my doll collection. And still having dolls before the shows/movies really came into existence.  But it actually drives me nuts how they take all of the ‘classic’ literature and bastardize (Needs a better word but i can’t think of one…) it it be feminine, and only one kind of feminine, too. I mean “Yay for exposing people to classical stor-WHAT DID YOU DO TO THE STORY?!! AND WHY IS EVERYTHING PINK?” is sort of my reaction.

But then, I’ve always been one of those girls who can’t stand pink and refused to miss a single episode of Batman: The animated series. I’ve sort of ensconced myself into ‘feminist literature’ and action shows with strong female characters. And now looking at it just makes me sad.

Somewhere along the line, I think I lost the entire point of my Post…

(Source: ndelphinus)