ARGH!

[mousme]

Dear 24,

Way to reinforce the notion that women say "no" only because they really mean "yes," and want men to pursue them. Persistence is a virtue, after all, and not at all creepy. If a woman says she doesn't want a relationship with you, then clearly what she really wants is for you to grab her and force her to kiss you —especially if you're her immediate boss. That really doesn't foster any kind of power inequalities, noooo. All it will do is make her melt into your arms and declare her undying love.

Sadly, because your writers SUCK, that last scenario is exactly what happened. You've set back the equality movement by about fifteen years. Congratulations.

No love,

Me

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Oh, I'm sorry, this is the television dept; ART is down the hall (in another building, across town)!

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

You were expecting significant drama out of television? Ha, ha, ha, ha! You're watching Jack Bauer snuff pr0n (a.k.a. "24") and complaining of bad theme in how the writers have treated one character? Okay, quit kidding like that; my ribs hurt. I don't watch any TV at all and I've heard all sorts of tales about the poisonous premises behind that show. The whole theme and concept of the show is a reflection of the old "ticking time-bomb scenario (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticking_time_bomb_scenario)," meant to illustrate how "normal" moral and philosophical rules "don't matter" in time-critical, high-stress, emergency scenarios. Half the right wing fascists in America masturbate to this soap opera of xenophobia, collectivism, and other bad premises and you're objecting to a little "non-consensual seduction" between a couple of the characters? This is like reading John Norman's Gor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gor) for its philosophical, sociological, and anthropological insights.