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OK, I just came back from watching The March of the Penguins. You know, gotta hand it to these penguins--they do a nice job of egalitarian parenting across gender under horrific conditions--yeah--go penguins! But Cripes!!! The absolute pathos in Morgan Freeman's voice and narrative emphasis on the "father" penguin's plight! OMFG! Geezus guys, give it a rest! The birds look fucking identical, but oh, the plight of the male penguin! The female penguins loss of a third of her body weight and dropping of the egg and waddling back to sea after this task is mentioned all matter of factly, as I would expect in a documentary, but the male penguins waiting while she went to feed is presented like the Greatest Story Ever Told--they're fucking penguins, guy! A fine display of male interest in only what other males do, but doesn't this look ridiculous to anyone else?
Am I the only one who noted this or is it just my homicidal lesbian tendencies surfacing again?
It's a good Discovery channel movie, but now I know why reviewers I heard and read who gave it such rave reviews were male. Patriarchy is sooo stupid. I'll go back to my grotto now.
Am I the only one who noted this or is it just my homicidal lesbian tendencies surfacing again?
It's a good Discovery channel movie, but now I know why reviewers I heard and read who gave it such rave reviews were male. Patriarchy is sooo stupid. I'll go back to my grotto now.
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Yeah, mothers are supposed to nearly kill themselves taking care of kiddies, but when a father actually
does a load of laundrydoes something, they're suddenly candidates for sainthood.I've been known to threaten to slap male acquaintances who say they are *babysitting* their own EXPLETIVE DELETED children.
Love the way you describe it though--*snickers at but the male penguins waiting while she went to feed is presented like the Greatest Story Ever Told--they're fucking penguins, guy! A fine display of male interest in only what other males do, but doesn't this look ridiculous to anyone else? this part especially.
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Yep--absolutely. She drops a fricking egg that's bigger than her head, but OH NOEESSS!!!! He has to wait while she trudges 70 miles after doing this to feed before he can go feed. Poor mens! (If you can tell which is the mens penguins anyway) AHAHAHAHAHA!!! And then there's a big deal made with the fathers bonding with the chick, not the mothers--EXCEPT--we get pathos over the mommy penguin who loses her baby--because you know, now she's worthless. BAD Mother Penguin!! (-; That's about it for the pathos moment for the females. It's just so intuitively and logically stupid to present it this way. And even the fucking penguins--only the male penguins matter! ahahaha!
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Speaking of which... umm... did you do that to your own cat in your icon? Cuz if you did... I wonder what the number for the ASPCA is...*G*
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Nope--not my kitty.(-:
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The movie's not out yet in England, so I haven't been able to see it yet. But this sounds EXACTLY like the kind of rant I'd get on after a movie and everyone would be rolling their eyes at me or laughing. I still want to see it though--viewing baby penguins on a big screen is worth a little feminist anger. :)
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I'm not sure if it is for me, but getting to snerk with ya'll about it afterwards makes up for it. The only way I would go see it now is with a friend who shared our feminist humor in an uncrowded theater where we could find a corner away from people and MST the hell out of the narration. (-;
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Maybe with the sound off, it'll be OK.
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Ahahahaha omg poor penguins. They probably have a completly backwards culture than ours, and yet we slap on the male-oriented bull shit. *wanders off to go live with the uncoupled female penguins*
Alexis wants to see this movie really bad because she loves penguins, but she can't find it out here. I saw a review and wasn't too eager to go see...I've seen plenty on penguins on the Discovery channel without having to pay $7 dollars to see them be bigger than me. And being talked about by Morgan Freeman (poor male penguins...a tear, anyone?)
I want a movie on those all female lizards. There are only women, and men don't exist. A woman and her daughters, and her girlfriends and...we'd have to throw the plight of the male lizard in there, huh? There'd be a whole segment in there about where oh where has the male gone? *sad music* Where's a penis when these lizards NEED ONE?! *eye roll* It would be squeezed in there out of fear of losing the all important male views. Ahaha
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And it's just that I suspect that the reviews I read in retrospect seem to have either over-identified with the male plight and/or the poor reviewers have been sitting thru an awful lot of dogs this summer that this one seemed so epic to them--probably the combo.(-; Over-identifying is fine with me--its just that I'm trained to look for whose story isn't being told, so I view that over-identification as being at someone else's expense--and it ain't about the penguins if they're doing that. So my reaction is to blow a raspberry. LJ makes it fun.(-;
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I don't pay much attention to reviews...often times they review movies I love as being awful, or review movies I loathe as being wonderful. I prefere to rely on seeing it myself or what my friends say about it. Though I suppose that is another form of review...however, it is a review that I trust more since I tend to know the tastes of those people.
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....Of course, that would suck for those who don't want to be pregnant. Shit! I didn't even *do* anything! I wonder if that's what happened to Mary. Hangin' with those lesbian lizards...
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Also, did you notice how every penguin was referred to as "him" when they were not clearly sex-segregated? For the whole beginning of the film, I thought the males were marching out to meet the females who were waiting for them in an undisclosed location.
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