| Can't I make you understand / you're having delusions of grandeur |
[Nov. 14th, 2009|01:40 am] |
Katie, Emmy and I had a very brief chat, and have collectively decided that Glee stopped being even irritatingly fun two episodes ago and we're not going to watch it anymore. I mean, Emmy, who regularly watches the episode saying "potato potato potato" over Finn's lines, couldn't even get herself to do it, because she was watching the whole episode with a look of horror. Katie wisely decided not to watch it at all.
There was a stage where Glee was just irritating but with some awesome. I still love Mercedes and Kurt, and there have been a few songs that I've really enjoyed their version of. (I really liked the boys' mash-up in "Vitamin D", for example.)
But, I think there are two things that sum up what I think it really wrong with Glee.
First, and I don't think this is a spoiler:
Defying Gravity is a duet.
( Spoiler )
This is the show that's supposed to make people with disabilities feel empowered.
You know what really makes me feel empowered? Having a really vibrant community of people with disabilities that I've met through the internet and off-line. Having people who love and trust me enough to call me out on shit when I say something ignorant or thoughtless about disability. Having people who respect my work enough to read it and give constructive feedback. Having women with disabilities being willing to share their varied sexual experiences and expressions on a public blog that I'm a part of. Having a lot of people I've known over the past few years tell me how much they appreciate my posts about disability and how they've really thought about the stuff I've done. Having ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sabotabby write a rant about how inaccessible the museums are in Toronto, and have that rant not only be discussed by their board of directors, but be reported in the local newspaper as something important. Having a whole lot of people, even people I don't know, who don't know me, contribute to that list of YA books about people with disabilities.
Those things, those things that are actually about us, about our lives, about our experiences, are really amazing and actually empowering to be a part of. They've given me the self-confidence to write more, to question more, to ask for more, and to admit when I'm wrong.
Glee just makes me feel very very sad, and very very tired.
If you want to talk about the episode with me, don't hesitate to drop comments.
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[Nov. 13th, 2009|12:19 pm] |
Oh hey, I forgot another post is up.
Power & Responsibility, which is about the care-giving dynamics in my relationship with Don. It's appeared here before, but I've edited it a bit. (But, overall, same message: Bad things happen when you put spouse in role as caregiver.)
There's a post going up later this afternoon about Sex & Scoliosis that I think people will enjoy. I can't remember what time it'll go up, though. But watch for it. It's good reading. (Also, tell me if the descriptions I did of the pictures are okay. It's picture heavy post.)
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| Calendar Time! |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|11:07 am] |
It's the time of year to start thinking about the calendar you want on your wall for next year. Now available is a calendar filled with twelve super witty and whimsical dinosaur photos sure to bring you a smile through the entire year. Printed on high quality paper, each month can be converted into a print later, which is very economical.
As a bonus, all money made from calendar sales go into the "Help Buy Lis a Working Camera Fund" to ensure that next year will be filled with many fabulous photos!
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[Nov. 11th, 2009|02:15 am] |
Okay, all I want to do right now is go around and leave incredibly condescending comments telling people how they are wrong wrong wrong and bad for not seeing how wrong wrong wrong they are, which is a long way of saying "I need a break."
(But they're wrong. You understand this, right? They're wrong. And bad. Arg, I hate it when I'm like this.)
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| Someone was paid to write these two paragraphs |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|09:31 pm] |
The glee club members twirl their wheelchairs to the tune of "Proud Mary" and in joyful solidarity with Artie, the fellow performer who must use his chair even when the music stops.
The scene in Wednesday's episode of the hit Fox series "Glee," which regularly celebrates diversity and the underdog, is yet another uplifting moment - except to those in the entertainment industry with disabilities and their advocates.
The rest of the article isn't actually about Glee, except the standard of "We couldn't find anyone with an actual disability to play Artie!" But otherwise it's about people with disabilities still not getting roles in t.v.
But really. Those two paragraphs. *sigh*
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| I'm an historian living in the future and it is the BEST THING EVER |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|06:13 pm] |
Vanished Persian army said found in desert
"We have found the first archaeological evidence of a story reported by the Greek historian Herodotus," Dario Del Bufalo, a member of the expedition from the University of Lecce, told Discovery News.
According to Herodotus (484-425 B.C.), Cambyses, the son of Cyrus the Great, sent 50,000 soldiers from Thebes to attack the Oasis of Siwa and destroy the oracle at the Temple of Amun after the priests there refused to legitimize his claim to Egypt.
Awesome. (I mean, not the dying in the desert. The discovery.)
A few years back they figured out how to read papyrus that had been found preserved in Pompeii or something similar and all I want to do is dance. We keep finding out new stuff about the past, and it is the BEST.
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| Just a friendly reminder |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|09:20 am] |
Expanding a bit, social penalties such as criticism, disapproving looks and even outright ostracism do not infringe upon one’s rights to freedom of expression/speech. They are not legal penalties, they are other people exercising their own rights to freedom of expression and freedom of association. There is no right to freedom from other people deciding that one’s actions appear to be those of a self-entitled insensitive jerk and telling others that this is their opinion of one’s character.
From: Once Again, for the Clue-Challenged
{Nothing's going on in my life that brought this to mind.)
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