Comment Meta

[amaresu]

Femslash Mini Meta fest was an utter fail this year. And I'm still not in a place where I could do it, so I purpose Comment Meta. And let's have it cover all things female and fannish. However you define those.

How it works

1. Post a meta topic in a top level comment. Use the subject line for the meta subject and expand as you want in the body of the comment. Or don't.

2. Repeat Step 1 for as many meta ideas as you have.

3. Comment on other meta topics.


It's kinda like a kink meme, only with meta. Feel free to browse the mini meta tag for ideas.

This is meant to be about as low pressure as it comes. Feel free to write on your own journal/Tumblr/blog and link back here. Respond with as little or as much as you want. This post will remain open indefinitely, so please track it if that makes things easier for you.

Comments

Re: *spoilers* Re: femnism in Top of the Lake

[chaila]

I thought the same thing about the incest thing! But then I thought it was kind of interesting that they didn't really resolve it, like Robin and Johnno will choose to believe Al because yay, but who knows what the *real* truth is.

I loved so much that the overall narrative was Robin and Tui surviving this terrible stuff, and not on their victimization. Like it was actually a real story about a patriarchal culture, which was painful and uncomfortable, but it also validated Robin's view of this as a diseased culture, and didn't portray her as overreacting or too angry or whatever.

I totally see some of the same survivalist feminism themes in Winter's Bone. Which is a term I have just made up but now sort of love...

Re: *spoilers* Re: femnism in Top of the Lake

[twtd]

I loved so much that the overall narrative was Robin and Tui surviving this terrible stuff, and not on their victimization. Like it was actually a real story about a patriarchal culture, which was painful and uncomfortable, but it also validated Robin's view of this as a diseased culture, and didn't portray her as overreacting or too angry or whatever.

Yes. I love that Robin was angry but that the narrative never told us that her anger was too intense, or unjustified, or something she shouldn't be allowed. It's the sort of anger that male characters are allowed all the time, but that female characters so rarely are. She's allowed to throw a dart at a guy and stab evil-rapist-dude with a broken bottle, and then she suffers the same quickly undone punishment that any male character would suffer.

And I think there's a discussion to be had about how the "cure" for this town is more violence, while the one true outsider, GJ, ends up just walking away. I'm just not sure where to start that discussion.