If you'd like to know why I recommend you avoid the new Oz movie, I bring you this quote from the wiki article on the movie. Madripoor_Rose pointed it out in her journal and it made my head explode into flames:

Screenwriter Mitchel Kapner was intrigued by the prospect of exploring the origins of the Wizard of Oz character. Producer Joe Roth became involved for nearly the same reason as Kapner, stating that "...during the years that I spent running Walt Disney Studios -- I learned about how hard it was to find a fairy tale with a good strong male protagonist. You've got your Sleeping Beauties, your Cinderellas and your Alices. But a fairy tale with a male protagonist is very hard to come by. But with the origin story of the Wizard of Oz, here was a fairy tale story with a natural male protagonist. Which is why I knew that this was an idea for a movie that was genuinely worth pursuing."

So...yeah. And then my head exploded and it was messy and stuff. Because...wow, I can't even coherently respond to the amount of stupid in this paragraph. I'm basically at the pointing and flailing stage, but I assume that more coherent folks will carry on from here.

::facepalm::

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Anyway, I'd just like to note that Barak turned four today and he's adorable and evil in equal measures, which is (I suppose) entirely normal, but still rather frustrating. I had a great time co-oping in his class and then we went for pizza and picked up a cake to have tonight. And we came home and snuggled on the couch, which was nice.

Then he spent all of dinner crying because I'd given him a red plate (meat) instead of a blue plate and he wasn't having any of my argument that chicken is meat when clearly I was just trying to deprive him of his rightful blue plate. ::sigh:: But now he's adorably asleep on the couch downstairs.

Tomorrow I head back to the orthopedist to say "Um, my shoulder still hurts, what now?" I've been reading up but I honestly can't figure out what the logical next step is. There are a bunch of a different possibilities and every reputable source seemed to have a different idea. ::throws one hand in the air because the other arm hurts too much::

Okay, I have no idea where Avi's disappeared to, so I'm going to drag Yael up to go to bed. (It's quite late but tonight's been crazy, with Avi bringing in furniture--don't ask--and my in-laws here and whatnot.)

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I'm not going to directly comment on the Wincon situation, but I'd like to tell you a story.

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I'm happy to say that all of the comments on this topic I've seen on my flist have been sensible. I love you guys :)

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I feel like I did this poll once already, but I'm too lazy to look for it and besides, I think I have new questions.

The first three questions are only for women who are legally married to men. I still love the rest of you, but there are a whole different set of expectations in your lives and that confuses things :D But if you'd like to answer the other questions, feel free!

The next to last question is an example of what happens when you don't hit preview! It's supposed to be percentages 1-100 :) So...::waves hands:: answer as best you can. It's not scientific anyway, right?

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Greta Christina is awesome yet again: Religion and the Difference Between Possible and Plausible, or, Why You Shouldn't Jump Out of Windows. (As always, post is SFW, site is most definitely NSFW.)

A mildly interesting post about AmazonFail and other online protests.

A very interesting "Ask Dr. Isis" post about men calling women "dear" in a professional context.

You still have time to put in prompts for the 2009 Multiverse challenge. C'mon, you know you want someone to write you that Stargate/Vorkosigan saga fic you've always wanted, right? This is your chance! The more prompts, the more fun! (Since there's not going to be a minimum length this year, I'll probably claim at least one prompt. There are some awesome prompts there already.)

Yesterday I made two lasagnas. Today I made two loaves of banana bread. Now all I have to do is remember to pack up one of each and take them to school in the morning for Jasper's mommy and daddy, since Jasper has a baby brother as of Monday night :) A big hearty welcome to Jonah! (Who, I might add, was born a few ounces heavier than Barak was on Monday afternoon.)

And because I'm lazy, this poll is intended only for the heterosexual women. I know I've got a bunch of lesbian moms and folks in groups marriages and whatnot, and you know I love you all, but I don't have the time or energy to figure out how that would affect things. I'm mostly curious about those of us who are following society's expectations of heterosexuality and marriage and such.

I thought I'd gone into a time warp while reading the Washington Post online this morning, when I encountered the editorial Mother of all Blunders.

::blinks:: So, apparently mommies are more important to toddlers than daddies, and we shouldn't have mothers in the military because it makes us look bad in the eyes of the world.

Or something. ::tilts head:: I...I'm really not sure what to say, to be honest. I want to make fun of the author, but that seems either unfair or just too darn easy. I want to argue with her points, but that is too easy. I'm kind of hoping one of you folks who's better at the whole theory thing will really take this sucker apart. (::looks at cereta, blue_braces...::)

Personally, I'd like to focus on getting into fewer wars, thus needing fewer soldiers of any kind. Let's get all the mommies and daddies home safely, okay? That's what's best for kids and the world.

ETA (mainly for the amusement of blue_braces: ::boggles:: There's a comment from someone who signs their name as "mark.leone." But a) I find it hard to believe the Leone I'm thinking of has learned how to comment on the Post website, and b) I find it hard to believe he'd say this.

I was just preparing to post a link to The Male Privilege Checklist when cereta posted this fabulous rant on male privilege in fandom.

I think both posts bring up a lot of points worth discussing.

I wish I could say I had anything profound to add, but right now I don't. Made tom kha gai for dinner. With naan. Because we like our multicultural food. Now I'm full and sleepy and thinking about a popsicle for dessert. ::yawns::

::snort:: Okay, so I decided to treat my first piece of feedback seriously and I wrote back to the guy. (It was a guy. I shoulda guessed.) I said, essentially, that I was curious why he'd said the story wasn't complete. I explained that the story was about Batman discovering that a relationship was possible, as long as he let Bruce take over. Then I pointed out that writers like to be asked, not ordered. Here's the response I just got. I'm gonna be snickering about this all day.

well i think that you should write the fact that it could or couldn't happen. you haven't actually said that yet... but i think it couldn't becaus wonder woman has been around for fourty years and is still a virgin.... but she's never had a boyfriend either... but anyone can change taht

::falls off chair, laughing:: My day is made. I swear!

I'd make snarky comments about this feedback, but really, it'd be like shooting fish in a barrel. ::cackle::