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Nov. 26th, 2012 07:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedAs of right now, no actual promotions are taking place as far as Angry Birds go, but a total of ten mini-episodes are still available online. As far as the spritesheet goes, not counting fixing Kagami's pigtails in her regular set, I've still got Tsukasa's set, Miyuki and Konata's regular sets, and the hived sets for Kagami, Miyuki, and Konata. That's a total of six sets to go. So, for each set I complete, I'll allow myself to play two promotional Angry Birds mini-games before moving onto the next set, and then the last set completed, along with revising the Starbound outline and the first chapter, will be the time I finally play Mother 3 once and for all.
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Besides, us normal human-types, we gotta be happy with what we're given. Y'know what I'm sayin'? You could look at it this way: The people who don't like what they've got are the same people who invent things and make discoveries and advance civilization. They made airplanes 'cause they wanted to fly, and they made cars and trains 'cause they wanted to go from place to place. It's as simple as that. The only reason we've got all the things we have now is because a certain group of people got together and used their talent or imagination or genius or whatever to make it all possible. Ordinary people are probably better off living their ordinary little lives in an ordinary manner.
-Kyon, during the first episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. This is what he tells Haruhi that leads up to her forming the SOS Brigade.
So, what's that got to do with anything? Well, the other day, I sent an email to StateFarm about that commercial, asking them never to air anything like that again. Just yesterday, I was going to make a phone call to Dunkin' Donuts, after failing to find an email address on their site, about another misandrous commercial that they recently aired, and asked Dad where the phone was (it wasn't on the hook). He asked me who I was calling, and then gave me this lecture about how futile it is for me to fight what I consider misandry (and yes, it very much is, not because of the content itself but because of the writers' unwillingness to write anything w/ the gender roles reversed).
Not gonna describe the whole thing in depth, but here are a few points worth mentioning. First off, yeah, I would say he's right about sending emails to every company that airs something like that. My own power alone won't make a dent in anything. But no, even if starting a TV network isn't an option most people have, I will never take "There's nothing you can do about it" for an answer regarding any issue. Such is also what he said in the past, when I perseverated over the abusive teen help industry, which is a way bigger issue than some mere pet peeve of mine. Maybe he is one of those people Kyon referred to as ordinary, better off just sitting on the sidelines and only accomplishing stuff as far as constructing stuff and keeping our house in order goes while just accepting things the way they are. Not that I've accomplished much myself beyond earning a Bachelor's degree, but at least I actively seek answers and solutions, and like people say, it's better to try and fail than to never try in the first place.
(I don't wanna hear Mom or Dad's excuses as to why I have no hope of influencing the media, or anyone's excuses for why things are the way they are. Chelle mentioned in the comments under that entry with the passage, that back in the old days, it was easy enough to depict women the way we depict men, and such had gone unchallenged in its time. How that all changed, I would assume, is that people grew sick of it, and it took certain individuals to get them all organized to challenge the status quo. The only question (which most web articles fail to provide any real answers to) is how? And, if it were always males who had the more positive image between the two sexes back then, then such campaigns for better female characters would have been justified. Not so much, though, if standards and characterization knew no gender back then, in anything, like it does today (especially in cartoons, sitcoms, and commercials).)
That said, I went with Mom to the library to pick out this book that I read back in January 2003 (two years before I became aware of male-bashing at all), titled The Other Parent. Even though that book is actually about violence, sex, and commercialism in the media, it offers the kinds of tips that most web articles fail to provide, to everyone, on how to actually make things better, and the same approaches could likely be taken to attack misandry and hypocrisy. (I got Mom to agree later on to read the final chapter, where the shit is at, when she comes home from work today, and then to discuss how I could actually take the advice given.)
(Mom also suggested I get this other book called Truth In Advertising. As it turns out, though, that's actually a new book that's due to arrive on January 22.)
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Besides, us normal human-types, we gotta be happy with what we're given. Y'know what I'm sayin'? You could look at it this way: The people who don't like what they've got are the same people who invent things and make discoveries and advance civilization. They made airplanes 'cause they wanted to fly, and they made cars and trains 'cause they wanted to go from place to place. It's as simple as that. The only reason we've got all the things we have now is because a certain group of people got together and used their talent or imagination or genius or whatever to make it all possible. Ordinary people are probably better off living their ordinary little lives in an ordinary manner.
-Kyon, during the first episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. This is what he tells Haruhi that leads up to her forming the SOS Brigade.
So, what's that got to do with anything? Well, the other day, I sent an email to StateFarm about that commercial, asking them never to air anything like that again. Just yesterday, I was going to make a phone call to Dunkin' Donuts, after failing to find an email address on their site, about another misandrous commercial that they recently aired, and asked Dad where the phone was (it wasn't on the hook). He asked me who I was calling, and then gave me this lecture about how futile it is for me to fight what I consider misandry (and yes, it very much is, not because of the content itself but because of the writers' unwillingness to write anything w/ the gender roles reversed).
Not gonna describe the whole thing in depth, but here are a few points worth mentioning. First off, yeah, I would say he's right about sending emails to every company that airs something like that. My own power alone won't make a dent in anything. But no, even if starting a TV network isn't an option most people have, I will never take "There's nothing you can do about it" for an answer regarding any issue. Such is also what he said in the past, when I perseverated over the abusive teen help industry, which is a way bigger issue than some mere pet peeve of mine. Maybe he is one of those people Kyon referred to as ordinary, better off just sitting on the sidelines and only accomplishing stuff as far as constructing stuff and keeping our house in order goes while just accepting things the way they are. Not that I've accomplished much myself beyond earning a Bachelor's degree, but at least I actively seek answers and solutions, and like people say, it's better to try and fail than to never try in the first place.
(I don't wanna hear Mom or Dad's excuses as to why I have no hope of influencing the media, or anyone's excuses for why things are the way they are. Chelle mentioned in the comments under that entry with the passage, that back in the old days, it was easy enough to depict women the way we depict men, and such had gone unchallenged in its time. How that all changed, I would assume, is that people grew sick of it, and it took certain individuals to get them all organized to challenge the status quo. The only question (which most web articles fail to provide any real answers to) is how? And, if it were always males who had the more positive image between the two sexes back then, then such campaigns for better female characters would have been justified. Not so much, though, if standards and characterization knew no gender back then, in anything, like it does today (especially in cartoons, sitcoms, and commercials).)
That said, I went with Mom to the library to pick out this book that I read back in January 2003 (two years before I became aware of male-bashing at all), titled The Other Parent. Even though that book is actually about violence, sex, and commercialism in the media, it offers the kinds of tips that most web articles fail to provide, to everyone, on how to actually make things better, and the same approaches could likely be taken to attack misandry and hypocrisy. (I got Mom to agree later on to read the final chapter, where the shit is at, when she comes home from work today, and then to discuss how I could actually take the advice given.)
(Mom also suggested I get this other book called Truth In Advertising. As it turns out, though, that's actually a new book that's due to arrive on January 22.)