Posts by Amy Gale
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Given that the only role that an actor in a wheelchair can play, is a character in a wheelchair, it'd be nice if they got those roles sometimes.
To change angle a little, it would be nice if roles being cast weren't assumed to be able-bodied (and probably white) unless specifically stated otherwise. I suspect it'll be a long time coming, though.
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You seem to think that because I disagree with you I must not understand your point.
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treated this way
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I really don't understand the grief about "treatment".
It's not about "helping". (Helping how? For what?) That is a very ableist interpretation. You don't sing or play with other people to HELP them. You do it because you want to make music together.
There were two guest choirs in this episode. They might have done this scene with the other one (although there would be obvious health and safety issues with regard to being kicked in the face during some of that dancing). There would have been plenty of ways to criticise that choice too. But saying they shouldn't have done it with the Deaf choir? I just don't buy it. The Deaf choir is allowed to be about more than just pedgagogical "ooo look, a Deaf choir" value, right?
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Are you saying that the Deaf choir is somehow special and exempt from being considered in the pool of choirs for this scene?
Because I find that WAY more offensive.
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and going back to that Glee scene with the deaf choir - dad-dom means I'm home of a Friday now... - that did strike a very odd tone. Would they have got up and taken over with any other choir? It struck me as extremely patronising.
Am I the first person in the thread to out myself as a big fat choir nerd? I think I might be. There is something really special about spontaneously singing with another group: blending, adjusting, smiling at the stranger next to you. I understand the concerns about the lead-in to the scene, but I can't actually come up with a superior alternative - the visiting choir was too horrified to join the hairography, an announced "group sing" wouldn't have been as powerful,...
I guess everyone is going to read that scene through their own experiences, but me? I cried when I watched it. And then I rewound it and cried again.
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Thanks BookieMonster for the link to The Millions and the spoof of The Road.
Yes, thanks!
But also? How can you really have a Cormac McCarthy spoof with nobody getting laved?
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probably something cool like marketing or something with computers
Wait, what?
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No OTC codeine in the land of the free...
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Who would have guessed codine was an "opium-linked drug".
'Guessed'? It's knowledge, bro.
I guess it's not a big deal if you never use it anyway, but please, everyone, pay attention to what's in pills that you take! Otherwise, how can you answer accurately if your doctor asks if you take any opiates? Or respond appropriately if you're a Pirophen fan and your sister rings to tell you she had a terrible reaction to Panadeine?
[Oh, Pirophen, how I miss you.]
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the values and traits associated with them is quite different from what, say, this says about women. You'll note, however, still no genitalia.
Anyone else look at that and see a woman texting in bed?