The Pathos of Penguin Masculinity

[lavendertook]

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.

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You have posted lately! O_O Yay!

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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viewers. *scampers away*

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Smart you are--it is just one big Discovery Channel movie of cute penguins with stupid narration. I like Morgan's voice fine--it was just a combo of the script and his tonal emphasis that gave it the annoying slant.

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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Nice voices are good but if it because irritating-- meh. I can live without the pengies.

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.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I read about those lizards. Parthenogenesis--could be done with humans, but sure isn't going to get funding.

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Parthenogenesis...Wouldn't that be interesting? Randomly get pregnant, have a daughter and get on with it. Sounds like a recipe for an entire female/lesbian world. :-) Forget the sci-fi plot of THE LAST MAN OMG!!!! O_o That would probably make an interesting story if it wasn't already over done with the whole last male thing slapped down in there.

....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...