soc_puppet | Middle section goes: Blah blah, feelings, family interaction, 9, blah blah

For those of you who haven't seen it: Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed To Work. Yeah, I was skeptical about the title, too, and then I read it. So much truth, man. ...Though, uh, potentially triggering, as well. Nature of the beast and all that :/

Next, there's a fab review of The Stepsister Scheme over here. I know I've talked about it a million times already, but that post goes into depth I skimped on. It talks about the book from a feminist perspective, examining both its merits and its flaws (and yes, there are flaws). It says a lot of things I thought about, but never got around to saying. If I were to write a comprehensive review of the book, rather than just listing reasons I think it is awesome, I think it would turn out something like that. Not exactly, but definitely similar. If you're not entirely spoiler-phobic, I encourage you to give the review a look-see.

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Mood went up and down yesterday. Up in the morning, lasted most of the day, tanked around when Dad picked me up for Family Dinner Night in the late afternoon. See, something I just bought came packaged in white mesh, so I was wearing it on my forearms to deter my dermatillomania. Naturally, Dad asked about them, and I replied, "It's to stop me from picking at myself."

The resulting change in his behavior was markedly subtle. His posture changed slightly, and his tone was entirely nonchalant when he replied with, "Oh. Is that a problem for you especially these days?"

Fail, Dad =_= I don't even know entirely why that pissed me off so much, only that it did. (My mental and emotional health is not the weather, Dad, please to not be inquiring about it as if it is? I've been doing this for over a year and you only notice when I finally do something about it? Somehow I get the feeling you're going to have a Long and Meaningful conversation about me with Mom instead of with me because of this, Dad? Or do you just think it's more of the same from the woman who pulled out most of her eyelashes in grade school, and then told you she was clinically depressed in a way that must have seemed out of the blue one morning in Jr High? Either it's no big deal, in which case you follow up with, "Oh. Well, I hope you get that sorted out, then," or similar, or it is a big deal, in which case you can actually talk with me about it. [End possible reasons I'm pissed.])

Anyway, dinner didn't go much better from there, as I was not inclined to curb my responses when the family asked what I was interested in these days, or what I'd heard about District Nine, etc. (Me: I'm interested in feminism! Also, I heard that District Nine is full of racism, here are five examples of it.) Managed to mostly snap myself out of politics by the second half of the meal, but still.

Followed it up with a family viewing of 9. These here are my thoughts:

* I agree with sentiments that 7 was hands-down awesome, and would totally cosplay her.
* Ditto to sentiments that the twins were adorable.
* The fact that the twins were blatantly gender ambiguous kinda made up for the fact that 7 was the only blatantly female character.
* 5 and 2 are so married, man.
* 9 may or may not have had something of a crush on 5! If he did, he was probably oblivious to it.
* From his 'hair', I actually went on to assume that 6 was meant to be black. Which may have been right or wrong, I'm not sure. This assumption colored my view of him, though. On the one hand, character of color in not entirely stereotyped role, yay! (See also: Wybie in Coraline.) He wasn't even the druggie! On the other hand, uh. You do realize that the black-and-white-stripes is reminiscent of horrible prison uniforms. Also, he still died.
* I'm pretty sure the entire movie would have been better done if it 9 had started out with the rest of them. As it was, I didn't feel like I got enough time to connect with the characters. It all felt quite rushed.
* ...Okay, I get that this is supposed to be an "optimistic" ending rather than a happy one, but uh. I'm kinda missing part of how. Less than half of Inventor Dude's soul is left "alive", and while the rest is out there rejuvenating the planet (or whatever), it's still not whole. What happens to the parts now that they are not a whole? Is it arguing that we are equal to the sum of our parts, or is the world put on hold/doomed in general because we are more than the sum of our parts? Um, help?
* Really, Wall-E totally did better with the post-apocalyptic evil-robot-vs-cute-robot/construct thing in general.
* Cool designs, though. Steampunk sure is popular these days, innit?

Standard disclaimer: You are welcome to agree or disagree with any of my thoughts. Being as I was in something of a Mood already when I was watching the movie, this may have colored my viewing, so don't expect them to be all positive.

Blah blah, felt better when I got back to the apartment. You know it's been a bad few hours when the cats I complain about so often were the thing that cheered me up :P

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Oh, I also found my camera, finally! Hoping to get some much belated amigurumi and henna pics up ~~later tonight~~ sometime tomorrow (too tired tonight) :3b Yay for more positive entry!