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brightknightie) wrote2018-09-22 05:28 pm
brightknightie) wrote2018-09-22 05:28 pm
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You remember your love for FK when...
In an essay in the New York Times this weekend — about what certain public matters say about how far our society hasn't yet come, "The Patriarchy Will Always Have Its Revenge: I want to burn the frat house of America to the ground" by Jennifer Weiner — I came across this paragraph and something unexpected suddenly came to mind:
I do love FK. Still love, so love. Especially first-season FK. Aside from and among its other virtues and its many (many) faults, FK (especially first-season FK) remains to this day one of the most effortlessly, unconsciously pro-woman genre shows ever. And in its own era...? Wow. Genius or miracle or coincidence, or all together. A man trying to right his wrongs. Not a few women helping make him sorry for his — and others for theirs — one way and another.
That it took the character centuries yields one set of metaphors. That he got there, period, yields another. All beautifully, horrifically, tangled up and overlapping, like in life.
♥
"There are famous novels, canonical plays, entire genres of movies centered around men seeking revenge (the “Iliad,” “Hamlet,” every western ever). There aren’t many stories about men righting their wrongs; even fewer about women making men sorry."Does it come right to mind for you, too? I presume so, because we're here together on this journal.
I do love FK. Still love, so love. Especially first-season FK. Aside from and among its other virtues and its many (many) faults, FK (especially first-season FK) remains to this day one of the most effortlessly, unconsciously pro-woman genre shows ever. And in its own era...? Wow. Genius or miracle or coincidence, or all together. A man trying to right his wrongs. Not a few women helping make him sorry for his — and others for theirs — one way and another.
That it took the character centuries yields one set of metaphors. That he got there, period, yields another. All beautifully, horrifically, tangled up and overlapping, like in life.
♥