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This....this. *foams at mouth.*
Jan. 19th, 2009 10:51 pmhttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dbenedict/2009/01/19/lt-starbuck-lost-in-castration/#comment-61037
That there, is a link to the most ridiculously chauvinistic and infuriating article I have read in long time. Its Dirk Benedict, Starbuck in the original BSG. Here are a few priceless quotes from the article:
"'Re-imagining', they call it. “Un-imagining” is more accurate. To take what once was and twist it into what never was intended. So that a television show based on hope, spiritual faith and family is un-imagined and regurgitated as a show of despair, sexual violence and family dysfunction. "
"But 40 years of feminism have taken their toll. The war against masculinity has been won…"
"Women are from Venus. Men are from Mars. Hamlet does not scan as Hamletta. Nor does Hans Solo as Hans Sally. Faceman is not the same as Facewoman. Nor does a Stardoe a Starbuck make. Men hand out cigars. Women “hand out” babies. And thus the world for thousands of years has gone’ round."
Let me just post that last part again, just in case you missed it.
MEN HAND OUT CIGARS. WOMEN HAND OUT BABIES.
*quietly foams at mouth*
right. So I wrote as response to the article.
Reading both this and some of the comments really made take a step back, not to mention deeply shake some of the views that I had on our society. Here I was thinking that we had gotten past this, gotten past the idea that men and women had to be in specific gender defined roles. It seems to me that Dirk Benedict is all up in arms because…what? Because they took a show and made it bleak and depressing, because there is moral ambiguity, and then added a few strong female leads in for good measure?
People are not black and white. It should be smiled upon, not frowned upon that a television show can actually convey this, to unflinchingly show us the good and the bad of humanity is amazing.
Every character is flawed, just like how every human is flawed. The men *and* women are strong, just how they are both weak in their own ways. One is certainly not better than the other. however, it seems that in the old version all the male leads are stronger than the female, something that Dirk Benedict has no qualms about.
This is a joke. Its the bitterness of an untalented, B tv actor trying to be the victim, trying to make a cheap sci fi show into some cultural touchstone, and attack a show that actually has substance, and gives the viewers something to think about.
That there, is a link to the most ridiculously chauvinistic and infuriating article I have read in long time. Its Dirk Benedict, Starbuck in the original BSG. Here are a few priceless quotes from the article:
"'Re-imagining', they call it. “Un-imagining” is more accurate. To take what once was and twist it into what never was intended. So that a television show based on hope, spiritual faith and family is un-imagined and regurgitated as a show of despair, sexual violence and family dysfunction. "
"But 40 years of feminism have taken their toll. The war against masculinity has been won…"
"Women are from Venus. Men are from Mars. Hamlet does not scan as Hamletta. Nor does Hans Solo as Hans Sally. Faceman is not the same as Facewoman. Nor does a Stardoe a Starbuck make. Men hand out cigars. Women “hand out” babies. And thus the world for thousands of years has gone’ round."
Let me just post that last part again, just in case you missed it.
MEN HAND OUT CIGARS. WOMEN HAND OUT BABIES.
*quietly foams at mouth*
right. So I wrote as response to the article.
Reading both this and some of the comments really made take a step back, not to mention deeply shake some of the views that I had on our society. Here I was thinking that we had gotten past this, gotten past the idea that men and women had to be in specific gender defined roles. It seems to me that Dirk Benedict is all up in arms because…what? Because they took a show and made it bleak and depressing, because there is moral ambiguity, and then added a few strong female leads in for good measure?
People are not black and white. It should be smiled upon, not frowned upon that a television show can actually convey this, to unflinchingly show us the good and the bad of humanity is amazing.
Every character is flawed, just like how every human is flawed. The men *and* women are strong, just how they are both weak in their own ways. One is certainly not better than the other. however, it seems that in the old version all the male leads are stronger than the female, something that Dirk Benedict has no qualms about.
This is a joke. Its the bitterness of an untalented, B tv actor trying to be the victim, trying to make a cheap sci fi show into some cultural touchstone, and attack a show that actually has substance, and gives the viewers something to think about.
