Have a look at this post. It sounds something like media feminism gone amuck. I don't have time to read it in depth at the moment, but whoa. Check out the accusations toward Joss Whedon in it.
You know, there are bits of this I agree with. I had some serious issues with Mal calling Inara a "whore" repeatedly, and breaking the terms of his landlord/tenant-like agreement not to barge in on her uninvited.
But Zoe calling him sir? In a military setting? Not seeing the problem.
I agree that it would be helpful to know why Inara is a companion. It would also, IMHO, be immensely helpful to see her have an orgasm while serving someone as a companion, because sex work in which the workers are expected to enjoy themselves would be immensely different from the prostitution we think of.
In any case, stating flat out that the writer's wife experiences whatever is just wrong. It's libelous.
The comments about the author never having seen a healthy relationship between a white man and a black woman... okay, but so what?
In short, there ARE serious issues to discuss about Firefly. It gets some thing so right and other so wrong that it really deserves analysis. But... this is not that analysis.
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Date: 2008-03-28 05:59 am (UTC)But Zoe calling him sir? In a military setting? Not seeing the problem.
I agree that it would be helpful to know why Inara is a companion. It would also, IMHO, be immensely helpful to see her have an orgasm while serving someone as a companion, because sex work in which the workers are expected to enjoy themselves would be immensely different from the prostitution we think of.
In any case, stating flat out that the writer's wife experiences whatever is just wrong. It's libelous.
The comments about the author never having seen a healthy relationship between a white man and a black woman... okay, but so what?
In short, there ARE serious issues to discuss about Firefly. It gets some thing so right and other so wrong that it really deserves analysis. But... this is not that analysis.