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ericadawn16A month or two ago, I mentioned to someone about a study where people tend to hate things after 35 which explained the anger towards the female Ghostbusters and such...
It turns out I remembered it all wrong. It wasn't a study. It was Douglas Adams. It's still true though, just put kickass females in place of technologies:
“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
It turns out I remembered it all wrong. It wasn't a study. It was Douglas Adams. It's still true though, just put kickass females in place of technologies:
“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
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Date: 2016-07-02 01:27 am (UTC)Hollywood loves to pat itself on the back about how progressive and liberal it is, and it's also pretty consistently accused of being unfair to PoC, which has always struck me as amusing. I think it comes down to what we were discussing earlier... not every movie with a PoC lead that bombs does so because that's not what audiences want to see. Sometimes a bad movie is just a bad movie. Movies are more and more expensive these days and studios want to go with a sure thing, and what makes a movie a sure thing seems to have a lot more to do with franchise or the studio's reputation (SW, Marvel, Hunger Games, Pixar). But hey, I can't remember the last movie I actually went to a theater to see.
GoT has made me wince on more than one occasion but, especially in the early seasons, I was ready for it having read the books. Must have something to do with growing up watching X-Files, Profiler, etc ;)
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Date: 2016-07-02 02:00 am (UTC)Yep...oh, I go fairly often. Last Monday, my mom and I went to The Free State of Jones...SO GOOD.
Must have something to do with growing up watching X-Files, Profiler, etc ;)
No, no it wasn't because I also watched The X-Files, Profiler, all the various NBC/CBS/whatever crime shows, Buffy, Angel, Prime Suspect, A Touch of Frost, I really loved Touching Evil, my oldest brother would insist on watching Tales from the Crypt and the other brother loved the Nightmare on Elm Street series Fox had for a while...it gave me nightmares but I'd lie and say it didn't. Then, in college, they started Nip/Tuck and I watched all of those.