Grrski!

[susie_flo]

Dear fiends, as you probably know I don't typically wallow in excesses of feminist outrage... but some days it is quite simply thrust upon me.

You have probably heard that Kathryn Bigelow has just won the Best Director oscar for her film The Hurt Locker, which also won Best Film.

So this morning a TV News reporter asked one of her leading actors what she was like to work with...

He replied "Oh Kathryn was great! She didn't apologise for being a woman at all. She just came on set every day and did her job"

(I'm sorry... She didn't WHAT?)

Moments later a male film critic was interviewed on the sofas about what made it such a great film...

"well, it's exciting, gripping, intelligent. You can't tell it was made by a woman"

I kid you not...

In other news, G and I spent the weekend decorating our kitchen... we had no time for the Internetz or anything and eventually flopped out on Sunday night... with the nagging realisation that the colour isn't quite right. Tsk.

Hope you are all surviving the Monday morning yukness.

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Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

So what have you done to your kitchen? Will there be a picture?

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Heh, you got me on pictures! I forgot to take a 'before' picture, but I might blog an 'after' picture when I get round to it

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Well... it was meant to be a sort of vintagey matt sage. But it's just turned out a bit too perky and not quite sludgey enough. (In certain lights it looks a bit NHS)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

PS - I have something to send you, but there may be a slight delay in posting as I dither about how to wrap/disguise it to avoid risk of confiscation by customs (not sure if they're a bit funny about posting foodstuffs across borders!)

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Technically I'm not allowed to have feminist ire, but WHAT THE FUCK?????

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

My reaction was similar to yours... (I think I must live in a little bubble surrounded by enlightened folk, because it came as a terrible shock to me to see such utter contempt for womankind abounding.)

[whiteshadow.livejournal.com]

At least they did not compare it to her ex husband's movie Avaar tho, that would have been bad,

Her best movie will always be Near Dark tho...

D

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Well funnily enough it *has* been compared with Avatar, but mainly becauise they two were neck and neck to win best film, so fair enough really :-)

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

And Avatar was trounced ;-)

[r0ck3tsci3ntist.livejournal.com]

What. The. Eff?

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I guess there's nothing like winning a major award to make people want to slap you in the face with their outmoded prejudice...

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

You see you're making the mistake lots of ladies do - which is getting your pretty little head all het up over stuff that isn't really important *grin*

I'm looking forward to the series about feminism starting on BBC4 tonight and I also got a copy of the Best of Cosmopolitan 70 and 80's from Poundland which I am really looking forward to reading for a)nostalgia value and b) sheer wtf'ery.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip (I might watch that on Beeb 4...)

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

I have the BBC4 thing set to record...

I really need a feminism icon

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

Pre AIDS their sex advice is probably vastly different.