From an LA Times story about last night's season premiere of Six Feet Under (by the way, apologies for the enthusiastic use of italics... I'm trying to wean myself off of quotation marks. Anyway.):
[If the show] feels more feminine than ever and its women oddly real, that's because three female writers make it a point to depict Ruth, Claire, Brenda and Vanessa as multidimensional characters who often do the wrong thing when they're trying to do right.
Well gee. Thanks, there. Hey, did you know that women have multiple dimensions? Just like men! Glad we gone and got us some of them WOMEN writers so we could go and figure that out, because god knows men can't write "oddly real" women characters! Only women even care enough about women to try! Maybe it's because in my own writing, I spend a lot of time trying to get into the head of a multidimensional middle-aged man, but I found that an insult to the show's writers, both male and female -- not to mention utterly asinine in general. Sometimes it seems like feminism fights the same old "hey, women are people too" battles over and over again. Why is this news?
To counter that, here's a really interesting journal from a woman serving in Iraq. She twists the gender paradigm better than my sarcasm.
To further counter that, anyone want one of these? I do. He would certainly make idiocy a federal offense. Combat the Axis of Assheads or something.
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