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Two and a Half Men co-creator Lee Aronsohn’s tells THR he doesn’t much care for lady-centric sitcoms. (via newsweek)
He applauded women like Whitney Cummings, Chelsea Handler and Tina Fey securing a voice to discuss formerly taboo subjects on TV.
“But we’re approaching peak vagina on television, the point of labia saturation,” he added.
The current female TV boom contrasts with Two and a Half Men mostly portraying women as bimbos, something Aronsohn isn’t about to apologize for.
“Screw it… We’re centering the show on two very damaged men. What makes men damaged? Sorry, it’s women. I never got my heart broken by a man,” Aronsohn earlier told the Toronto conference during a keynote address.
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#ENOUGH DUDES. WE GET IT. YOU MASTURBATE. #ENOUGH DUDES. WE GET IT. YOU LIKE GETTING YOUR DICK SUCKED. #ENOUGH DUDES. WE GET IT. YOUR WIFE WITHHOLDS SEX. #ENOUGH DUDES. WE GET IT. #NO REALLY. #ENOUGH DUDES. #DONE. #WITH. #THEM.
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Feministfilm call to action: HAVE YOUR PERIOD ALL OVER THIS GUY’S FACE.
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FUCKING MEN. FUCKK OFFFF
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Find me an episode ofSVUin which
a) there is a rape victim
b) who is an adult woman
c) who isn’t lying
or d) who isn’t dead
The problem with Tom and Ann
The problem with the Tom and Ann subplot in this season of Parks & Recreation is that it’s forcing viewers to confront the unpleasant fact that if they actually knew Tom Haverford in real life, they would hate him so, so, so much.
I actually couldn’t disagree with this more. (Surprise!) Tom’s into hip-hop, being silly, giving away iPads, looking out for friends, being sweet, being sweetly naive about how things work, #menswear, and not getting a lot done at work. That actually sounds, in the aggregate, a lot like me and most of the people I call my friends.
The ‘negative’ parts of his personality are: That he’s clingy? That he’s little? Not good at hunting? I mean, the message not-so-secretly coded into Tom’s character is that he’s… wait for it: kind of like a girl. Oh, sort of like another character on TV… wait for it: Barney Stinson! A man who also, via caricature, tries to supersede traditionally masculine/feminine roles. What I’m saying is that gay men and people of color tend to get either super-feminized or super-masculinized. Tom and Barney do a decent job, I think, of walking the line.
The whole ‘Ezra Klein doesn’t like people like that thing’ is an Ezra Klein-problem. It’s not a Tom-problem. I feel like, to be charitable, a nagging dislike of the character probably says more about sedimented notions of personhood than it does about the characters themselves. But I would, I hazard to say, have no problem hanging out with Tom all day.
TWO VERY ENTHUSIASTIC THUMBS UP.
So torn about this. If Tom was real I would find him funny and quirky, yeah I get that, I have friends that are like that; if I was Donna I could hang out with Tom. But the way Tom has always talked to Ann, in a really inappropriate and not really straight-forward or adult way, making it obvious that he views her as a playful object of his desire and that really he only wants to gain her trust to get in her pants (recently this has turned more in the direction of a serious romance though). In the show this works better than it would in real life, in real life when a dude won’t leave you alone because he fancies you, it’s truly threatening and intimidating. It’s not nice to be worn down until you say yes, it’s better when your ‘no’ actually gets taken as a ‘no’. So! I think in real life, Tom would be in danger of being a ‘nice guy tm’ rather than a nice guy.
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i cannot believe this episode of the new girl just had the line “there is nothing less sexy than a man asking if he can kiss you”
I know… that was so out of line. They actually told the guy to force himself on her because ‘women like that’.
For those of you who don’t watch New Girl, the ‘douchebag’ character Schmidt was asking for advice from another character because he didn’t know whether she was interested and was getting mixed signals. To that I would say ‘umm… so ask her?’ every. fucking. time. But no, he forces himself on her, as per their advice, she loves it but then he gets falsely detained for rape…. ahahaha light comedy television everyone!
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also I absolutely despised the Rita Leeds arc on Arrested Development - it started out fine but then went about as downhill as I’ve seen television go in recent memory. I haven’t actually been able to watch past the last episode she’s in (the one in which it went to shit)… I almost wrote something explaining the problem but I’m really bad at media criticism, I just get this visceral “NO!” feeling with vague ideas of what the writer(s) did wrong. idk.
I think the writers were pissing their pants in excitement at getting to write for Charlize Theron. The whole bad English accent thing and the ‘she’s retarded in a totally cute way and so I didn’t notice’ - ness of it all. Cringe. Definitely a low point.
oh so I’ve been watching Arrested Development the whole way through lately. also started United States of Tara today (I swear, I am not super into TV. when I was a kid, I went months to years not watching television as some sort of statement. idk, I was weird).
anyway, Marshall is an idiot (as I was around that age), any scene with him and that guy he has a crush on requires me to yell to block out the sound, but I love the way he dresses and also baking rules.
Yaaay, love both those programs.
Buy Ben Wyatt’s Letters to Cleo Shirt
benwyattinletterstocleoshirts:
here.
After reading this, I’m seriously considering it.
E4 are stopping Gilmore Girls re-runs?!
My initial reactions:
Shock:
Anger:
Devistation:
and finally depression:
My mum, dad, sister and I just watched the last episode (again) this afternoon (weeping obviously) on e4. After the episode the announcer woman was like ‘If you’re sad about Gilmore Girls being finished don’t worry because on Monday at the same time… the first episode of… 90210!’
Everyone was like GTFO seriously what an insult! gah!
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Last night on Parks and Recreation, internet-beloved twerp Ben Wyatt wore a Letters to Cleo shirt, and the internet is freaking out about it. To demonstrate how much the internet is freaking out about it, let me point you toward benwyattinletterstocleoshirts.tumblr.com (disclaimer: a fantumblr which I curate).
In this episode, “The Comeback Kid,” Ben is visited at home by Chris, who is concerned that Ben is depressed. Ben of course denies this, insisting instead that he’s just burying himself in his hobbies since his recent job loss.
The producers piled on physical and material markers of “depression”—the wearing of gray, the stubble, the fatty foods, the unkempt hair. But it was this shirt that resonated most with the audience—why? A less well-orchestrated show would have picked something a little more obvious (Whitney might have gone with The Cure, Up All Night maybe Smashing Pumpkins), but Parks and Recreation is not only more clever (as far as I’m concerned), but they are clearly uniquely tapped into their audience base: women in their early twenties who are on tumblr.
It was a really interesting depiction of mental illness, and not an entirely unfair one. It’s no secret that both Ben and Chris are experiencing mental health issues in different ways. Here, Chris’s tried to intervene with Ben’s patterns by using his own coping mechanisms (gross health shakes), which (of course) didn’t work. But it was the act of an intervention of perception at all that disrupted Ben’s patterns and made him notice that he was depressed. He was too buried to realize it before.
Mostly, I’ve been thinking hard about what that Letters to Cleo shirt means. It’s no secret that Letters to Cleo is for Feelings, including Depressed Feelings. What made the use of the shirt most remarkable is that it wasn’t used to feminize Ben. It wasn’t used as a marker to show how depression makes men weak and feminine and therefore into Kay Hanley, it was used as a marker to make the audience identify even more with Ben. I know it’s a cheap way to talk about it, but: no one was laughing at Ben, we were laughing with him in a way that I’ve rarely ever seen. And that’s why [mostly] women on the internet are reacting with such force, I think.
Further, it’s significant that depression itself wasn’t the butt of the joke at all, it was Ben’s mechanisms for cheaply masking his depression which founded the joke (mechanisms which were funny because of the way Ben is, and his ridiculous fondness for calzones).
I don’t think it’s a stretch to claim that there’s a deep cultural connection between Letters to Cleo and commercial female adolescence in the 1990s. I started a post about this very phenomenon in the summer, but I tabled it. I’ll definitely revisit that soon.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxrfdlMflw1qaf8llo1_500.png)
(screencap by http://ohilovecaps.tumblr.com)
Last night on Parks and Recreation, internet-beloved twerp Ben Wyatt wore a Letters to Cleo shirt, and the internet is freaking out about it. To demonstrate how much the internet is freaking out about it, let me point you toward benwyattinletterstocleoshirts.tumblr.com (disclaimer: a fantumblr which I curate).
In this episode, “The Comeback Kid,” Ben is visited at home by Chris, who is concerned that Ben is depressed. Ben of course denies this, insisting instead that he’s just burying himself in his hobbies since his recent job loss.
The producers piled on physical and material markers of “depression”—the wearing of gray, the stubble, the fatty foods, the unkempt hair. But it was this shirt that resonated most with the audience—why? A less well-orchestrated show would have picked something a little more obvious (Whitney might have gone with The Cure, Up All Night maybe Smashing Pumpkins), but Parks and Recreation is not only more clever (as far as I’m concerned), but they are clearly uniquely tapped into their audience base: women in their early twenties who are on tumblr.
It was a really interesting depiction of mental illness, and not an entirely unfair one. It’s no secret that both Ben and Chris are experiencing mental health issues in different ways. Here, Chris’s tried to intervene with Ben’s patterns by using his own coping mechanisms (gross health shakes), which (of course) didn’t work. But it was the act of an intervention of perception at all that disrupted Ben’s patterns and made him notice that he was depressed. He was too buried to realize it before.
Mostly, I’ve been thinking hard about what that Letters to Cleo shirt means. It’s no secret that Letters to Cleo is for Feelings, including Depressed Feelings. What made the use of the shirt most remarkable is that it wasn’t used to feminize Ben. It wasn’t used as a marker to show how depression makes men weak and feminine and therefore into Kay Hanley, it was used as a marker to make the audience identify even more with Ben. I know it’s a cheap way to talk about it, but: no one was laughing at Ben, we were laughing with him in a way that I’ve rarely ever seen. And that’s why [mostly] women on the internet are reacting with such force, I think.
Further, it’s significant that depression itself wasn’t the butt of the joke at all, it was Ben’s mechanisms for cheaply masking his depression which founded the joke (mechanisms which were funny because of the way Ben is, and his ridiculous fondness for calzones).
I don’t think it’s a stretch to claim that there’s a deep cultural connection between Letters to Cleo and commercial female adolescence in the 1990s. I started a post about this very phenomenon in the summer, but I tabled it. I’ll definitely revisit that soon.
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the day ben wyatt wore a letters to cleo shirt, made calzones and a claymation video
You should really follow benwyattinletterstocleoshirts.tumblr.com
I can’t believe I missed that! OMG he’s so dreamy.
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