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Dec. 18th, 2018 11:28 pmSo I just got about one page into this New Yorker Review of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel before getting too pissed off to continue.
Like, okay, I don't expect everybody to like the show. It's fluffy.
But it seems like the main thrust of Emily Nussbalm's scathing critique is that the female protagonist is too much of a Mary-Sue, which ... really?
She describes the show as a "cloying fantasia" which is a really fancy way of saying that the protagonist is too unrealistic -- why? Well, because she's good at more than one thing, success in her chosen career comes fairly easily to her, and also she's pretty.
The show's protagonist has the same base personality type, talent level, and attributes as, oh let's say ~80% of the male leads in all genres of television throughout television history. And yet a female writer penned this critique, seemingly without any self-awareness as to the double standards the critique is perpetuating.
The author of the article also thinks the show could be edgier. How, you ask? She thinks the butch manager should be pining after the straight protagonist. The non-gender-conforming butch isn't sad or pathetic enough.
I threw up a little in my mouth and then I didn't bother reading the rest.
Just.
I'm so tired.
Let women have power fantasies.
Like, okay, I don't expect everybody to like the show. It's fluffy.
But it seems like the main thrust of Emily Nussbalm's scathing critique is that the female protagonist is too much of a Mary-Sue, which ... really?
She describes the show as a "cloying fantasia" which is a really fancy way of saying that the protagonist is too unrealistic -- why? Well, because she's good at more than one thing, success in her chosen career comes fairly easily to her, and also she's pretty.
The show's protagonist has the same base personality type, talent level, and attributes as, oh let's say ~80% of the male leads in all genres of television throughout television history. And yet a female writer penned this critique, seemingly without any self-awareness as to the double standards the critique is perpetuating.
The author of the article also thinks the show could be edgier. How, you ask? She thinks the butch manager should be pining after the straight protagonist. The non-gender-conforming butch isn't sad or pathetic enough.
I threw up a little in my mouth and then I didn't bother reading the rest.
Just.
I'm so tired.
Let women have power fantasies.
