tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post115862007695683949..comments2023-10-11T10:40:48.712-04:00Comments on The Miserable Annals of the Earth: Back to Suffragette CityDoc Nebulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052810933464744998noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-1158854569453424542006-09-21T12:02:00.000-04:002006-09-21T12:02:00.000-04:00I don't know about Hollywoodland... but if her big...I don't know about <I>Hollywoodland</I>... but if her biggest complaint about <I>The Black Dahlia</I> was the trailers, she got off lucky.<BR/>If you take Tammy to see it like she wants I know you'll dig the footage/reference to <I>The Man Who Laughs</I>, which legend has it was the inspiration for the Joker.<BR/>Be sure to give Tammy a good birthday today for all of us, 'kay?Tony Colletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08822811221860063707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-1158697585878401972006-09-19T16:26:00.000-04:002006-09-19T16:26:00.000-04:00if all my few commenters agreed slavishly with eve...<I>if all my few commenters agreed slavishly with everything I said, I'd get awfully bored awfully quickly</I><BR/><BR/>Heh...I don't think you'll have a problem there...;)<BR/><BR/>One note, Dear, "women on the internet"? C'mon! I'm pretty sure I've been to some sites with significant traffic run by the penis-enhanced members of our tribe that have a similar sycophantic structure to the one you note. <BR/><BR/>As we discussed, I don't think one has to be a woman to identify with a female character. Conversely, I have, if a movie is well-made, found myself identifying with all manner of being, regardless of sex, age, race, and sometimes, species.SuperWifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02856384425069616224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-1158682194812236012006-09-19T12:09:00.000-04:002006-09-19T12:09:00.000-04:00She certainly gives a bad name to every special in...She certainly gives a bad name to every special interest group she identifies herself with -- fangirls, Wiccans, feminists -- whatever. But her blog is an invaluable resource for me. Any time I want to write about something and can't find inspiration elsewhere, I just go by there, and BOOM!!! -- there's a trainwreck, just waiting for me. She's very reliable that way.<BR/><BR/>Women on the Internet tend to find it fairly easy to attract a coterie of slavish followers, if they're either (a) at least passably attractive and post pictures of themselves to prove it, or (b) don't post any pictures of themselves, or provide any physical descriptors of themselves on their sites, to disabuse anyone of the delusion that they might be. This increases by probably at least a factor of 10 within the more narrow confines of geek fandom. So it doesn't surprise me she has a following; Lonely Guys will flock to her, and once a crowd gets established anywhere, no matter what its makeup may be, others will gravitate towards it.<BR/><BR/>A lively community populated with intelligent commenters is one thing; I have invariably discovered, though, that whenever you come across such on the Internet, there is a person around which it all orbits who has always been the center of attention, and who therefore feels that remaining the center of attention is an entitlement. Generally, these people become extremely accustomed to constant validation via their comment threads, and most of them eventually get to a point where anything less is simply unacceptable to them. <BR/><BR/>It's sad, because, again, nearly all these communities I've come across do have a lot of interesting conversations going on on them. But while the central bloggers themselves are always highly opinionated, they rarely welcome anyone who is as opinionated as they are, and, in my experience, they become very easily threatened by anyone who writes even as well as they do, much less better.<BR/><BR/>Obviously, this isn't a formula for Darren's Insane Social Success. <BR/><BR/>Personally, I'm of the opinion that anyone who has any character at all is made uncomfortable by sycophancy; if all my few commenters agreed slavishly with everything I said, I'd get awfully bored awfully quickly. I expect people here to maintain some basic standards of civility (at least, whatever basic standards I adhere to myself) but I certainly don't insist on thrall-like worship of all my viewpoints, and in fact, I'd be appalled if I got it.Doc Nebulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052810933464744998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-1158669906874124132006-09-19T08:45:00.000-04:002006-09-19T08:45:00.000-04:00It does leave me continuing to wonder why people w...It does leave me continuing to wonder why people would subject themselves to that blog. She has a following, so they must enjoy it, but there's such a desperate sense of clique there. I wonder if she realizes how high-handed she seems to be? Some people take on a blog persona, and perhaps that's what's heppened there, with her playing the goddess surrounded by apostles - would-be goddesses and placid eunichs - who are collecting her every word as the new scripture.<BR/><BR/> I hope she at least got out to see <B>The Descent</B> (I'm not going to search her blog for it), though maybe that one bothered her because the two main characters were ultimately on the outs (and that's an understatement) because the one woman's husband had been fooling around with the other woman. Plainly, we men are the root of all evil.<BR/><BR/> Still, it's a large universe, and there's some comfort in knowing that she and hers would likely be as bored in my world as I would be in theirs.Mike Nortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13025995292338904959noreply@blogger.com