Spooktacular!
Oct. 25th, 2011 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficIs that not an actual word?
--So, in Paranormal Activity, we were under the impression that the demon was after Katie. Then, in Paranormal Activity 2, it turns out that the demon wanted a baby all along, and only went after Katie because some douchebag made a deal with the devil. If only he'd followed the good example of some of modern fiction's heroes, like Spider-Man... wait...
Although I'm not sure why getting a baby boy is a bigger deal for the forces of darkness than a grown-ass woman. I think in most terms of despoiling innocence and attacking the just, a grown woman is gonna come in handier. Unless it's just that she's a woman and the baby's a boy... oh. Oh, demon. I knew you were a servant of Satan dedicated to the downfall of humanity and rebellion against an all-loving God, but why you gotta bring gender into it? Not cool, dude.
--Okay, something's been bothering me about the character of Moira on American Horror Story. She's the family's ghost maid. The mom and daughter see her as a harmless old lady, while the cheating dad sees her as, well, someone who was cast on True Blood. Somehow, in all of their arguments over his cheating, he never says something along the lines of "If you're so worried about me cheating, why'd you hire a redhead in a French maid outfit? Also, I've never dressed up as a gimp and had sex with you!"
Basically, take the scene from The Shining where Jack Nicholson ends up making out with Helen Thomas and turn it into a main character.
The thing is, they make it explicitly clear that Moira is "really" an old lady and only men see her as a vixen. So whenever Moira interacts with someone "for realsies," it's as the old woman. It just seemed a little weird, that there's this really blatant divide between "older, sexless woman = legitimate character; young, attractive woman = sex object." And I don't mean sex object as in, ooh, Captain Kirk takes off his shirt once in a while. I mean every time we see her, she's trying to give the dude from The Practice a hummer. Wait, no, I take it back. There was one scene where they flashbacked to how she became a ghost: a rape scene.
Man, when I put it like that, it sounds really sexist!
--So, in Paranormal Activity, we were under the impression that the demon was after Katie. Then, in Paranormal Activity 2, it turns out that the demon wanted a baby all along, and only went after Katie because some douchebag made a deal with the devil. If only he'd followed the good example of some of modern fiction's heroes, like Spider-Man... wait...
Although I'm not sure why getting a baby boy is a bigger deal for the forces of darkness than a grown-ass woman. I think in most terms of despoiling innocence and attacking the just, a grown woman is gonna come in handier. Unless it's just that she's a woman and the baby's a boy... oh. Oh, demon. I knew you were a servant of Satan dedicated to the downfall of humanity and rebellion against an all-loving God, but why you gotta bring gender into it? Not cool, dude.
--Okay, something's been bothering me about the character of Moira on American Horror Story. She's the family's ghost maid. The mom and daughter see her as a harmless old lady, while the cheating dad sees her as, well, someone who was cast on True Blood. Somehow, in all of their arguments over his cheating, he never says something along the lines of "If you're so worried about me cheating, why'd you hire a redhead in a French maid outfit? Also, I've never dressed up as a gimp and had sex with you!"
Basically, take the scene from The Shining where Jack Nicholson ends up making out with Helen Thomas and turn it into a main character.
The thing is, they make it explicitly clear that Moira is "really" an old lady and only men see her as a vixen. So whenever Moira interacts with someone "for realsies," it's as the old woman. It just seemed a little weird, that there's this really blatant divide between "older, sexless woman = legitimate character; young, attractive woman = sex object." And I don't mean sex object as in, ooh, Captain Kirk takes off his shirt once in a while. I mean every time we see her, she's trying to give the dude from The Practice a hummer. Wait, no, I take it back. There was one scene where they flashbacked to how she became a ghost: a rape scene.
Man, when I put it like that, it sounds really sexist!
