They keep saying "it's based on the manga, not the anime" but I would say this clearly shows it's just an attempt to remake what was already made, rather than to update it or make it interesting.
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Because reading the show's portrayal of gender differently than how you read it makes one 10% sexist?
Yes, it is. This is how language works and has always worked. Do you think the dictionary should just stop adding words because they're NEW? In what year exactly would you say the English language hit just the right perfect moment at which it should become static?
No such grammatical rule exists, even among the most puritanical prescriptivists today.
He isn't talking about misrepresentation of white dudes with jobs like Atlantic staff writer, like himself (and Larry on the show), though, he's talking about a prison system that oppresses certain people (the poor, larely black, Latino, and Native American), and he's not one of those people. He seems to know that.
You can have all the claps.
Disagreeing ≠"missing the point." Berlatsky certainly never argues the show should better represent straight, white dudes. They do not make up the majority of the prison population either, and I suspect he'd have an article about it if this was show about a bunch of white dudes in prison.
It's not lip service. He has written a lot more about how women are underrepsented than he has about men.
YES, exactly! I don't think it's his best article because this isn't always clear, but it's certainly his overall argument.
There are endless ways to talk critically and honestly about why you disagree with his article—I agree with his sentiments about prisons but not really those about OITNB—but the absolute mess than is the comments on this article is not that.
I do not think Madeleine's article, and certainly not the majority of the comments here, are even vaguely constructive. A constructive response to this piece could certainly be written, but this isn't it. This is click bait. Berlatsky's argument is really about the prison system's victimization of black men ("part of…
I don't agree with his decision to make his point using OITNB, but I also think the rage in response to the article is REALLY misplaced.
Why is he "on the hook" in the first place? He's making points here about our gendered understanding of victimization in prisons and the legal system, a very real issue for millions of mostly-not-white men in the US. I don't think it was the best idea to make this point using OITNB but a whole shitload of people are…
Maybe you should use your curiousity to actually look... Berlatsky is a feminist, and he writes about feminism and women in the media all the time.
You internet lesson for the day it to read the full string of comments that come from this one before replying.
I'm not saying the dog shouldn't be returned. I'm saying the dog's return shouldn't be framed for the children as a return of property to its rightful "owner." The children no doubt have a real, emotional bond with a living being, and returning it as the "right thing to do" as a piece of property is a good way to…
Dogs are not "somethings" to be used to teach children about capitalist property rights. Fuck off.
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