The most pathetic thing I have read all day

[lizbee]

It's not about her being intelligent, beautiful and knowing it, witty, sexy and brave. it's about her being all those things... at the same time! Sometimes, it's just too much. (and the same goes for River Song)

So here is a brief and incomplete list of women who are "too much":

My mum
My sister
My sister-in-law
Great Aunty Jim
piecesofalice
surburbannoir
baggers
bnharrison
rj_anderson
dear_prudence
sajee
weaver
yiduiqie
danni
sister_ananke
violetisblue
ladyvivien
aerialgrrrl
binnessface
binkabookitty
tapedeck
icegemini
purple_smurf
YOUR FACE
AND YOUR MUM

So ... yeah. Fuck that noise. As some of the women on that list would sooner eat their own tongues than say. If misogynists hate and fear fictional characters, imagine how much more terrifying and amazing real people are. And those are only the ones I could think of before dinner.

In conclusion: PJ Harvey - Sheela Na Gig

Comments

[lizbee]

It's funny, actually, I always think Rose would have been a better character if the narrative had acknowledged her flaws and let her grow out of them, instead of letting them become pathological, then claiming they were virtues. That's not a bad character, that's bad writing.

(No disrespect to Billie Piper, who I am sure is awesome in her own right.)

I LOVE BILLIE SO. I finished her book feeling a lot of respect for her, which is not usually the outcome from reading autobiographies of former teen popstars.

[rembrandtswife]

Yes, and it's not bad acting, either, to do your best with what you've got in front of you.

(Sekritly, I like Nine/Rose and Nine/Rose/Jack. But that's fic that comes out of subtext, unlike Ten/Rose, which was TWU WUV IZ CANNON.)