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Post by snacky on Sept 21, 2014 17:26:06 GMT
i don't know if the women had to be any stronger or not back in the day, I still see this wherever in the world I travel even today. In anime there seems to be a running theme about the wrath of a Japanese wife, when the historical culture seems so macho and filled with sword-fighting men and oppressed women! I don't know enough about Japanese culture to really comment, but the women seem more seriously empowered than the usual super-powerful witch "return of the repressed" nightmare. I've seen it argued that in traditional cultures women were empowered by controlling the food supply and medical treatment. Not sure I'm buying that made them equals, but perhaps they weren't the wilting violets that upper class European women became. |
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Post by snacky on Sept 21, 2014 17:39:23 GMT
I think that just confirms it's a sucky way to do things. Alas, with the demise of LiveJournal, a lot of fandom went to Tumblr, which is nowhere as good. From a fandom perspective, it was a real loss. I second the emotion about LJ. I think CBC should maintain its own forum/blog/fan communique area that is indexed by Google. They can continue to interact on FB and other social media and also post stuff there, but that should be the secondary place they post. The central place should be their own domain. |
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Post by Hodge on Sept 21, 2014 18:02:13 GMT
Alas, with the demise of LiveJournal, a lot of fandom went to Tumblr, which is nowhere as good. From a fandom perspective, it was a real loss. I second the emotion about LJ. I think CBC should maintain its own forum/blog/fan communique area that is indexed by Google. They can continue to interact on FB and other social media and also post stuff there, but that should be the secondary place they post. The central place should be their own domain. But they'd have to pay someone to do that and they don't have any money.... |
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Post by snacky on Sept 21, 2014 18:32:33 GMT
Ooh that's an interesting way to look at it - maybe William came to realize more about himself as he played "word association"! What do you mean?
I mean that William didn't realize that he thought Julia was that beautiful until he said it out loud. "Word Association" is a technique that psychologists use to bring subconscious thoughts to the surface. |
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Post by snacky on Sept 21, 2014 18:33:37 GMT
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Post by snacky on Sept 21, 2014 18:41:33 GMT
CBC should tighten up a timeline and stick to it, after all Maureen Jennings works with them and she should be able to give them the essentials. As far as I can see, a lot of the confusion comes from comparisons between the books, the movies, and the TV show I cannot always tell whenyou guys are kidding although I did have a wonderful vision of Murdoch dressed like Clint Eastwood holding the bad guy at gunpoint and lecturing him on the logical inconsistencies present in his criminal activity. I thought it was funny. After 8 years the MM show "Bible" does get unwieldy: they are so meticulous in other details that I'm sure they do keep it up, but they get new writers every season, and there probably isn't much time to get them up to speed on every detail of the history of the show. I hope they aren't being lazy and just relying on the fan wiki. What they should be doing is hosting the wiki, maintaining a lot of the content themselves, and checking for accuracy. The TV show should just assume its own timeline at this point: the TV William Murdoch has almost nothing to do with the book William Murdoch. I love your image of William as gunfighter.  |
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Post by snacky on Sept 21, 2014 18:44:37 GMT
I second the emotion about LJ. I think CBC should maintain its own forum/blog/fan communique area that is indexed by Google. They can continue to interact on FB and other social media and also post stuff there, but that should be the secondary place they post. The central place should be their own domain. But they'd have to pay someone to do that and they don't have any money.... In the US they always manage to rustle up these folks as interns, and make them work for free with the glorious promise that they can work in the TV "glamor industry" one day. Besides, who is posting on FB? |
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Post by Hodge on Sept 21, 2014 18:51:22 GMT
But they'd have to pay someone to do that and they don't have any money.... In the US they always manage to rustle up these folks as interns, and make them work for free with the glorious promise that they can work in the TV "glamor industry" one day. Besides, who is posting on FB? I seem to remember some new law or something here recently about using interns. |
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Post by snacky on Sept 21, 2014 19:23:16 GMT
In the US they always manage to rustle up these folks as interns, and make them work for free with the glorious promise that they can work in the TV "glamor industry" one day. Besides, who is posting on FB? I seem to remember some new law or something here recently about using interns. If you require interns to work for certain hours and under certain management conditions, I believe you do have to pay them minimum wage. Which is sort of interesting since we actually have all sorts of worker categories that escape minimum wage in the U.S. - egregiously the "tipped" positions like restaurant workers, etc. But I think there are still ways to structure it to extract free labor if you don't dictate hours/days of the week. |
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Post by Hodge on Sept 21, 2014 19:32:32 GMT
I seem to remember some new law or something here recently about using interns. If you require interns to work for certain hours and under certain management conditions, I believe you do have to pay them minimum wage. Which is sort of interesting since we actually have all sorts of worker categories that escape minimum wage in the U.S. - egregiously the "tipped" positions like restaurant workers, etc. But I think there are still ways to structure it to extract free labor if you don't dictate hours/days of the week. I'm in Canada, we don't take kindly to people working for nothing. Though I think our tipped positions may have a lower minimum too. |
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Post by snacky on Sept 21, 2014 19:53:26 GMT
I'm in Canada, we don't take kindly to people working for nothing. Though I think our tipped positions may have a lower minimum too. I want to move to Canada.  |
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Post by Hodge on Sept 21, 2014 20:17:39 GMT
I'm in Canada, we don't take kindly to people working for nothing. Though I think our tipped positions may have a lower minimum too. I want to move to Canada. We have our problems too. |
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Post by Fallenbelle on Sept 22, 2014 12:26:09 GMT
i don't know if the women had to be any stronger or not back in the day, I still see this wherever in the world I travel even today. In anime there seems to be a running theme about the wrath of a Japanese wife, when the historical culture seems so macho and filled with sword-fighting men and oppressed women! I don't know enough about Japanese culture to really comment, but the women seem more seriously empowered than the usual super-powerful witch "return of the repressed" nightmare. I've seen it argued that in traditional cultures women were empowered by controlling the food supply and medical treatment. Not sure I'm buying that made them equals, but perhaps they weren't the wilting violets that upper class European women became. Nope. Japanese women do control the house.  Of course, I'm generalizing, but typically, the man makes the money while the wife controls it. I've even heard that some husbands are given an allowance by the wife, but the home is her domain. Again a generalization, but the submissive woman is while they're dating, and the domineering woman is the wife. I think things have become a bit more egalitarian in recent years, so it's not necessarily that way anymore. But that's the traditional stereotype. |
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Post by Fallenbelle on Sept 22, 2014 13:29:13 GMT
Alas, with the demise of LiveJournal, a lot of fandom went to Tumblr, which is nowhere as good. From a fandom perspective, it was a real loss. I second the emotion about LJ. I think CBC should maintain its own forum/blog/fan communique area that is indexed by Google. They can continue to interact on FB and other social media and also post stuff there, but that should be the secondary place they post. The central place should be their own domain. The downside about a forum hosted by CBC or any network is that it can be heavily censored. My first fandom, Red Cap, had a forum on BBC America with great discussions, but after a while we noticed a lot of them disappearing-namely those from British posters telling us about edits made to the show, and what those missing scenes were. We then formed a Yahoo! group, and soon after that, we moved to LJ. I just don't know what happened to LJ-was it when the Russians bought it that everyone decamped? |
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Post by snacky on Sept 22, 2014 16:17:13 GMT
Nope. Japanese women do control the house. Of course, I'm generalizing, but typically, the man makes the money while the wife controls it. I've even heard that some husbands are given an allowance by the wife, but the home is her domain. Again a generalization, but the submissive woman is while they're dating, and the domineering woman is the wife. I think things have become a bit more egalitarian in recent years, so it's not necessarily that way anymore. But that's the traditional stereotype. I've read some Japanese women's diaries, and it seems they are always third or fourth wife, and the husband is always stepping out. It doesn't seem very empowered. Yet somehow they do end up controlling resources and securing their home, food, and resources to raise their children. |
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Of course, I'm generalizing, but typically, the man makes the money while the wife controls it. I've even heard that some husbands are given an allowance by the wife, but the home is her domain. Again a generalization, but the submissive woman is while they're dating, and the domineering woman is the wife.