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Two weeks and a day, give or take, until the Supernatural season 3 premiere. I almost feel ready to start counting down the minutes. This television drought is killing me people. I can't seem to get excited about anything but our show, not new ones, not returning ones, nothing. My brain is on this weird, 'all SPN all the time' loop. It's ummmm mostly frustrating.

Well, that and the fact that I have to read about class actions tonight. And not the actual suits themselves, no, rather the procedure of putting them together in federal court. I know this is important information but boy is it boring.

Have spent a chunk of the day finalizing plans to attend the SPN et al con in Chicago in November. Can I just say how pissed I am that Creation takes advantage of fans the way it does? Yes, I recognize their right to make money by providing a product but it's just so skeevy. Fans love things and because of that fans are willing to spend outrageous amounts of money. We're a consumer society, it is what it is. So the people at Creation decide that they'll provide fans with various opportunities and then charge them an arm and a leg knowing full well that the fans will shell out the cash. It just, it all bothers me on a level that isn't easily articulable. And yet that hasn't stopped me from participating. It's a vicious cycle.

But I'm so totally not letting that tiny annoyance harsh my squee. Because the love. OMG, the love. *happy sigh*

Wore my fabulous new red kitten-heels to class yesterday whereupon they immediately proceeded to tear the crap out of the backs of my heels. ow. Still so totally worth it, though. Got a compliment on my good taste and everything. So I consider that a win, even if my feet don't. ;-)

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Am feeling spammy tonight.

You know what I'm tired of in genre tv? The shows about the geeky guys who, for whatever reason, have kinda cool abnormal things happen to them and a whole television is spawned from that event. Sure, great, fine, but where are the shows about geeky girls? And don't try to bring up Buffy. I love Buffy but she so totally does not fit the criterion before or after her Slayer-fication (and neither does Willow, for other sidekick-y reasons).

It's just, I get tired sometimes (ok, more than sometimes) of how television seems to completely disregard the single adult female geek portion of the population. Okay, so we're not a terribly huge segment of the viewing public but we are among the most loyal. And, gah, once again I'm having a hard time articulating why exactly this rankles so much.

And it's not even as if this is a problem only affecting genre television. It's endemic across the board. There are far fewer books about female superheroes, most fantasy and sci-fi novels have male protagonists as do the vast majority of genre movies. There are, of course, some wonderful exceptions to that generalized rule but they are few and far between. When's the last time a girl from a small town discovered that she had some innate specialness and headed off on a hero's quest? Even genre fiction written by women tends to highlight male characters.

So sue me, I find women interesting. I would like to one day have the experience of reading a book or watching a tv show and for once be able to identify with the female character rather than one of the male. It would be nice.

Here endeth the rant.

One of these days I might put up a whole post about how Supernatural is gender subversive, in a way, and how a show that wraps itself in the trappings of traditional American masculinity is traditionally female in perspective. But today is not that day. ;-)