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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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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!