Letters to the Editor
Lestat1
Published Letters: 401 Editor's Choice: 18
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No, it's guilt, not addiction
[Read the article: I'm addicted to Harry Potter fan fiction!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Something I notice, that the people who are writing in tend to be women, or at least that's my impression. Ahem, ladies, it is okay to have something that is utterly and totally only for your enjoyment. You do not need to feel bad that you sit around reading fanfic about Harry Potter or Doctor Who or Buffy or whatever all day. How many of these are guys sitting around saying man I peruse the net for all the latest football news, I watch ESPN all the time, sometimes I'd rather be on the couch watching a game than making dinner and cleaning the house. And when I'm alone I use all of it to pursue my hobby. Do they feel bad, no they certainly do not and they certainly do not think a majority of their free time spent chasing sports news should be secretive, bad, addicting or OmutherfuckingCD. Which is why Cary doesn't think this is a problem at all.
The LW says she should be too busy to even write to Cary. Why? Must every moment of your being be absorbed in the pursuit of self improvment or service to the family unit? Must the moments of your life be in the hunt for a job, doing something for the kids, cleaning, cooking, leaving the house to run errands. Something to be getting you up and out of the house?
So because there is a part of you that knows you have worked damn hard, getting a Ph.D, having kids, being in a marriage; that insists, insists that dammit woman, do something for yourself! So you feel guilty, because a lot of women don't feel like we deserve time just for ourselves, in something unproductive and completely useless. There is something nagging at the back of your mind, something that is only for your wholly selfish amusement and you will have it dammit! So you hide it from hubby and the kids because perhaps you don't think you deserve your hobby, you think it's beneath the intelligent capable hardworker you are so it's kinda embarrasing too. So don't feel like it's something bad or wrong, it's just something that you are doing totally for yourself, it's not for anyone else but you and breathe hon, it's okay. Next time when hubby is out and comes back and says hey lady, how was your day, whad'dya do, say I read some Harry Potter fiction. If he laughs or says why the heck you doing that, say cause I like it.
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Point taken
[Read the article: "Bee Movie"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But the movie was written by men, so they are going to create characters they know, men. Plus if the protagonist was a female, what exactly would Jerry Seinfeld do, put on a pretend girl voice? It's like when Jennifer Aniston bemoaned the lack of female centered comedies and so people were all then write one, hire someone to write one. Lots of those male centered comedies are written by the comdians themselves.
It's also possible that Jerry and the rest have no idea about bee society or biology.
I have no interest in seeing this film because every damn day it's been the Bee Movie, see the Bee Movie, Jerry shorts on NBC during The Office and 30 Rock and I just wanted Jerry to go away. Thankfully the movie opens and the most I'll see again is Bee Movie #1 animated film, see it today, again!
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Well in any case
[Read the article: "Martian Child"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's at least nice to see a film where a man is capabable of raising a child, he's not a weirdo for wanting to be a single parent. Perhaps a small step to combat our society's hysteria over single men and children and thoughts that jump to quickly to molestor, molestor!
I bet that's why they had to leave the gay part out, too many people think gay older man being a father to young boy, uh oh, he's gonna try something funny and not so nice.
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See what I mean
[Read the article: I'm addicted to Harry Potter fan fiction!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You aren't allowed to do something unproductive. Knit a scarf they say, that's something real. You're procrastinating they say, stop.
Liking Harry Potter fan fic means you aren't a real adult. Who's watching your children. Do something, do something. You're a woman dammit, you're an adult, goofing off is no longer allowed. Bad mommy, how dare you escape, how dare you while they wag their fingers. Of course you feel bad and ashamed look at all the judgemental finger pointers.
Why must she do something, why can't she do nothing, when she's alone, when her family is gone from the house?
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Big screen vs tiny screen
[Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex: Can an actor still carry a movie? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well as I see it, I don't think most adult movie goers care about who the actor/actress, I care much more about directors that influences me when picking DVD's. I think teens might be influenced by their hormones though. When I was a teen, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Slater and Ethan Hawke were draws, we'd watch pretty much anything they were in. I don't know if boys had their own preferences. I agree with the other poster who brought up the big screen vs little screen movies. I only saw a few movies this summer, SpiderMan 3, Transformers, Harry Potter and The Simpsons. The first are full of special effects and needed to see big and large, the last, well I see it on the tiny screen all the time!
So I see why many movies are geared towards teens, what else they gonna do on the weekends? Too young to go clubbing, barhopping, not enough money to go anywhere other than In & Out Burger so movies it is!
Teens do not want to sit around watching Tom Cruise talk about politics or some film that resembles history class. Nor do they really care about the touching family reunion through music. If you've got a choice between Saw 4 and Elizabeth II, easy choice.
Now I just don't care about going to see a movie in the theatre, I'd rather just go out to dinner.