Litsy

The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World | Christine Rosen

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This book presents all the ways humans are allowing their lived experiences to become secondary to their screens. There‘s data about many aspects of life: our friends are often online instead of in our own neighborhood, our kids are watching videos instead of riding their bikes, and there‘s anecdotes about what experiencing life through technology causes us to miss. (I‘m guilty of this somewhat—I hide behind screens in public, it‘s a shield!)

Anna40 I think this is partly true. The kids in my neighbourhood play online together or alone but they also still ride their bikes, built forts and play soccer or football in the backyard. I use my phone a lot, true, but my friends aren‘t online only or mostly. Phones and technology play a vital role in our lives today but I disagree with the thought that they dominate our lives. 2w

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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

Culture Smart! Ireland | John Scotney

Being in a reading slump means I'm still "in Ireland" for #foodandlit but since my guy is playing pickleball, the pup is content to lounge with me, and today's scrolling doesn't feel so doom-y, I'm going to finish my Ireland Overview with some Irish Pub ambiance on the screen.

Catsandbooks Enjoy at your own pace! 💚 4w

TheBookHippie 💚 4w

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Amandakay

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate | Anna Bogutskaya

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shanaqui

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate | Anna Bogutskaya

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I didn't DNF this, but I did start skimming. It was just so obvious. And I know it ultimately wasn't going to go *much* into the perfectly likeable female characters who get vilified by pop culture and fandom, but it didn't even touch on it. Disappointing in the end, and definitely makes me wonder if her book on horror was just as obvious to someone who actually likes horror films.

Still somehow avoiding a #BookSpinBingo by following my whim. 😂

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shanaqui

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate | Anna Bogutskaya

I really like Bogutskaya's more recent book on horror, but I'm kinda reevaluating in that in light of how *obvious* this is. I grew up in fandom with Relena Peacecraft and Rinoa Heartily being vilified for being “unlikeable“, and turned into caricatures that made absolutely no sense -- angry “bitches“, “sluts“, etc. Nothing here is particularly insightful.

Contemplating DNFing, or at least skimming. Disappointing.

Faranae Relena was definitely written to be extremely admirable, but the Western fandom really hated her for the most part. And that's something interesting to examine. I've seen a lot of “stanning women doing bad things“ from white feminists that rather concerns me, because it feels like they are missing that it's not about everyone getting to be equally awful... 3mo

shanaqui @Faranae I feel like this is very much in that vein, where I'd hoped for it to discuss more why female characters are considered unlikeable for basically no reason. I'd expected it to deal with Rey from Star Wars, for instance, but not so far... instead it discusses various archetypes of “unlikeable“ characters (“the bitch“, “the slut“, “the angry woman“, “the weirdo“, “the trainwreck“). 3mo

shanaqui @Faranae And she has a point in that male characters can be angry or sexual or messed up without the same dislike accruing, but I think really examining “Unlikeable Female Characters“ requires a bit more attention to the characters who we hate for no good reason, too. 3mo

Faranae @shanaqui Going for only the traditional “evil woman“ archetypes seems fairly shallow. We have read this listicle before! Male characters often get to be multifaceted yes, but you can also write a male villain that's 1-dimensional like the female archetypes. I think one would *have* to examine why people hate characters for no good reason to get at the meat of “unlikeable women“ and how to write multi-faceted women who get to also be likeable. 3mo

Faranae @shanaqui I was fascinated by the different reactions I and my chat had to Jane Austen's Lady Susan versus someone else. We loved it, and read Susan as a lady rake whose real love is Alicia. She's a terrible mother! But we were rooting for her to get her cake and eat it, too. The other streamer and chat hated her for being a slut (their words), a bad mother, and selfish. They didn't see any affection between her and Alicia at all, either. 3mo

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Smarkies

The Kris Mystic Weapon of The Malay World | Edward Frey

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Picked up this slim volume from the library. Interesting little read about this cultural item from the south east Asian region.

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vlwelser

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate | Anna Bogutskaya

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I thought this was an interesting audiobook. It looks at tv and film and how things have changed over time.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4mo

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keithmalek

The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America | Coleman Hughes

My 10 favorite books of 2024. Number 3.

#2024Top10

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DGRachel

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate | Anna Bogutskaya

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Spoilers abound in this book that examines a variety of tropes in pop culture/film & television. While I didn‘t find anything earth-shattering in the author‘s observations or conclusions, it did piss me off. Admittedly, I live in a rage-filled emotional state these days, but I‘m an American woman and all you have to do is look at our elected officials to understand the anger. The essence of the book is this: Fuck. The. Patriarchy.

Leftcoastzen I was curious about this one ! 5mo

BookmarkTavern I haven‘t read this yet. But two thumbs up for your review! 5mo

GingerAntics Sounds like a good book to me! 5mo

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