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May. 19th, 2012 05:05 pmI have until Sunday night to finish my challenge. I think it won't be a great (or even good) story, considering all the last-minute rushing, but a week to write something doesn't really give me that much time, so finishing it at all will do me good. Then I'll have time for a rewrite if I feel it's worth anything.
Went to go see a movie with Transitions today. Unfortunately, it was Battleship. The science was all wrong (sending a beacon to space looks a lot like a laser, apparently) and the aliens were humanoid-ish for no reason with brittle beards and lizard eyes. Oh, and they had four fingers. that makes a difference, right? But they were bipedal with eyes, a nose, and a mouth, all bilateral symmetry. ...but what can I really expect from a movie based on Hasbro's game? I was supposed to feel bad for the protagonist, but I couldn't. I was supposed to buy a relationship based on a chicken burrito. Honestly, the only characters I really connected with were side characters that were given zero development. The ending was obvious. The more I think about it, the only thing they got right was the idea of a Goldilocks planet.
I'm having a lot of issues with a friend right now. She's racist (although it's the insidious kind of racism, not KKK racism [not that it helps]), she believes in reverse -isms (she was made fun of for being white as a kid), she throws around retarded and "imitates" developmentally disabled people to mean stupid, and every time I've tried to talk to her, I've been shut down or can't find the words I need. Which leaves me two choices: walk away or continue trying to correct her. I told her not to use gendered slurs on my facebook, which she respected but defended herself by saying how much she hates Madonna. In the end, she at least respected what I had to say, but it's more of a "I don't tolerate these things around me." She's very savvy when it comes to gay/trans rights (or else I really couldn't be around her). I just -- it's very tiring to teach someone tolerance and in a lot of ways, even though I'm an ally, I don't feel it's my place to teach her about racism. Ableism I should be able to cover, but I have white privilege. And from that, I am aware that I have issues of my own, even though I acknowledge my privilege and try to do what I can with it. I know it's an ally's job to educate when the minority can't speak for themselves, but I know she's just going to point out that growing up all of her friends were black. She also has a creepy fetishizing view of Europe. I don't know. I'll do what I can as I can. I don't have a lot of spoons, especially not with my leg going out. Having to walk even a couple of blocks is tiring me out and I have to save as much as I can to walk to church tomorrow.
Went to go see a movie with Transitions today. Unfortunately, it was Battleship. The science was all wrong (sending a beacon to space looks a lot like a laser, apparently) and the aliens were humanoid-ish for no reason with brittle beards and lizard eyes. Oh, and they had four fingers. that makes a difference, right? But they were bipedal with eyes, a nose, and a mouth, all bilateral symmetry. ...but what can I really expect from a movie based on Hasbro's game? I was supposed to feel bad for the protagonist, but I couldn't. I was supposed to buy a relationship based on a chicken burrito. Honestly, the only characters I really connected with were side characters that were given zero development. The ending was obvious. The more I think about it, the only thing they got right was the idea of a Goldilocks planet.
I'm having a lot of issues with a friend right now. She's racist (although it's the insidious kind of racism, not KKK racism [not that it helps]), she believes in reverse -isms (she was made fun of for being white as a kid), she throws around retarded and "imitates" developmentally disabled people to mean stupid, and every time I've tried to talk to her, I've been shut down or can't find the words I need. Which leaves me two choices: walk away or continue trying to correct her. I told her not to use gendered slurs on my facebook, which she respected but defended herself by saying how much she hates Madonna. In the end, she at least respected what I had to say, but it's more of a "I don't tolerate these things around me." She's very savvy when it comes to gay/trans rights (or else I really couldn't be around her). I just -- it's very tiring to teach someone tolerance and in a lot of ways, even though I'm an ally, I don't feel it's my place to teach her about racism. Ableism I should be able to cover, but I have white privilege. And from that, I am aware that I have issues of my own, even though I acknowledge my privilege and try to do what I can with it. I know it's an ally's job to educate when the minority can't speak for themselves, but I know she's just going to point out that growing up all of her friends were black. She also has a creepy fetishizing view of Europe. I don't know. I'll do what I can as I can. I don't have a lot of spoons, especially not with my leg going out. Having to walk even a couple of blocks is tiring me out and I have to save as much as I can to walk to church tomorrow.
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