Crowtee_Robot

This is the most Oscar-ass movie I could imagine. Naturally it's going to win every award for which it's nominated.

Best we'll probably get is derivative '90s nostalgia-fueled slop.

Yeah. IIRC, gangster movies started as an urban inversion of westerns and as such were a meditation on the closing of the frontier and the contradictions of the US as a project.

One of my favorite aspects of the show is how all the wiseguys are stuck in the same End of History trap as the rest of the US. They sit around the pork store or the club talking about the good ol' days and gangster movies when their thing was really a force to be reckoned with while they barely run their outfits on stuff like gambling, drugs, and opportunistic theft. But then every time someone from "the good ol' days" shows up out of prison, they always immediately start fucking everything up for everyone else to the point where they must be dealt with in order to preserve what little action they have left. It's that veneration and disillusionment of their own mythology that is both darkly funny and poignant about the show and the audience.

Apologies for missing the last section or two. Work, the holidays and now getting sick really did a number on me.

I am so incredibly grateful that I read this book. Patriarchy wasn't a new topic for me, but to have it named and clearly shown how pervasive it is really helped me reframe some things, especially about myself. I recently moved back to my home city and it has dredged up a lot of stuff that I thought I was buried and done with. My father was not the worst there ever was, but he was patriarchal in his own way by imposing his own values and ambitions and by letting his temper run how he dealt with every frustration no matter how small. I resented him for it for years and now he's slowly dying of dementia in a shitty nursing home. I realized that my anger towards him was worthless since he is too far gone to achieve anything meaningful from a confrontation. I just put that anger away and made a promise instead that I would be a better man than him. I would be gentle and loving and not let my shit get on other people because that's my work and responsibility, not anyone else's.

I can't fully reject anger because I can't look at the state of the world and not feel it. It can be a useful tool in the right situations, but it is but one emotion that we are meant to experience. The book's emphasis on love was a major guiding star for me. Love, compassion, solidarity; these are the feelings I'm seeking to nurture and to save my anger for those truly deserve it. This is not a prescription for others, mind you, as we all operate differently and have our own work to do, merely reflection of my own growth and journey.

I'm grateful for everyone who has participated in this group. Even when I haven't been able to post, I have read your words and taken them and your experiences to heart. We come from different places but we've all been affected by patriarchy in all of its insidious ways. I thank you all for walking this path together. Thank you to @[email protected] for organizing this. I plan on doing my best to participate in future reading groups as they develop.

Finally, for anyone who might have been lurking through this:

I'm not going to judge you for not commenting, as outside of discussions like this I largely lurk with the occasional insight, quip, or emote, but I hope you are still engaged with the text and my hope is that you might participate more in a future book discussion. This is the kind of work we need to put in to improve the problem of misogyny in the site's culture. Even if you've already read the material we'd love to hear your insight.

All those late night hosts and not a single joke between them.

There's some sort of improv corollary to this thesis as well.

That story is apocryphal to the best of my knowledge. The biggest factor was that Jennifer Lien was struggling with some severe mental health situation and was struggling through the grind of TV production by self-medicating. Combine that with sagging ratings, the writers' inability to figure out what to do with her character, and the inclusion of Jeri Ryan in season 4 as the new sexy character and her removal from the show was all but inevitable. It breaks my heart because Kes deserved better.

Always the correct stance!

Rick Berman resented the young actor who had his own ideas for his character and wanted to collaborate on what Harry's arc would look like, and as a result Garrett got sidelined probably the soonest and harshest of any of the rest of the cast (besides Kes who was written out for several reasons).

You can't turn over a single rock in Star Wars without unearthing entire ecosystems of incredible nonsense.