dreamer_easy: (sherlock)
Somewhere, in something I've read, there's a bit where all these ballerinas show up to somebody's apartment for morning tea, and the author says something like: "Suddenly, it was May." tumblr is a bit like this. I'm twice the age of some these kids. What a pleasure to be communing with the future; they're keeping me young. My very favourite thing, though, is when they share their parents' reactions to their fandom, which are often very funny. This sort of thing.

ETA: I found the quote. "He had invited two of the dancers, but up the stairs came a bouquet of girls, more than a dozen of them. All at once it was the month of May in the dimmed room." Ludwig Bemelmans, Hotel Bemelmans, p 177.
dreamer_easy: (anti-bullying)
Given his feminist cred, I wonder if Neil Gaiman remarking that "George R. R. Martin is not your bitch" can be read not as a misogynist slip, but a use of the culture's current popular metaphor for exploitation and abuse. In which case, the insult is not directed at the targets of abuse, but at the abusers, with the sense of "stop treating other people like your personal property". It's not a metaphor I'd use myself, and it's right to point out its ugly connotations. But just how useful is it to pillory a long-standing feminist ally on the basis of a single remark? How about (and has this expression has ever been more apposite?) playing the ball instead of the man?

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