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podcast friday
Jan. 26th, 2024 08:25 am I have been looking forward to this one all week. There are two things you need to know to understand why.
1) Dunking on terrible films and books is my favourite hobby. I used to have a series called Cheatsheet of Freedom (you can probably still find it by searching my tags, though it's ported over from LiveJournal and Photobucket so most of the links and images are dead now). It was about reading and watching horrible things, most of it right-wing in nature, and making fun of it. I cut my teeth on Slacktivist/Fred Clark's fantastic literary and theological takedown of the Left Behind books, which taught me more about media criticism and good writing than any class ever could.
2) The Daily Wire makes movies now. Did you know that? They made a movie called Lady Ballers, which is so awful as a concept that even right-wing movie stars wanted nothing to do with it, and I had considered torrenting it to revive Cheatsheet of Freedom, but as you know Bob, I have very little time these days (and CoF required a minimum of watching each movie I reviewed twice).
Fortunately, Garrison Davis, It Could Happen Here correspondent and Patron Saint of Shitty Movies, watched Lady Ballers so I don't have to. You can listen to it here. Trigger warning for transphobia, obviously. On the episode with Garrison are James (who has an extensive background in sports—it's his main thing), Sophie (who loves basketball), and Robert (who, like me, can correctly identify that LeBron James is a basketball player).
This episode had me cry-laughing. Yes the ideology of this movie is a toxic cesspool but also it's bad in every other possible way and dunking on it put a big smile on my face. There are cameos by the worst possible people. In general it's just a really well done bit of media analysis, but there are also a few other interesting points that can be made about it.
1) It pairs well with Julia Serano's thesis that the root of transphobia is misogyny. This is why TERFism inevitably drifts to fascism rather than allying with feminism.
2) There have been, at various points, fascists who are good writers (Yukio Mishima and F.T. Marinetti spring immediately to mind) and a number of conservatives who are. There are even some conservatives who are capable of being funny, though they are mostly in England, not America. There are, however, no fascists capable of being funny.
3) The Daily Wire is doing a fantasy miniseries and you bet your ass I'm going to torrent at least one episode and subject you to my thoughts on it.
I have a lot of restrictions these days on who I can publicly mock, but this shit is fair game so if you like making fun of bad media, check this episode out.
1) Dunking on terrible films and books is my favourite hobby. I used to have a series called Cheatsheet of Freedom (you can probably still find it by searching my tags, though it's ported over from LiveJournal and Photobucket so most of the links and images are dead now). It was about reading and watching horrible things, most of it right-wing in nature, and making fun of it. I cut my teeth on Slacktivist/Fred Clark's fantastic literary and theological takedown of the Left Behind books, which taught me more about media criticism and good writing than any class ever could.
2) The Daily Wire makes movies now. Did you know that? They made a movie called Lady Ballers, which is so awful as a concept that even right-wing movie stars wanted nothing to do with it, and I had considered torrenting it to revive Cheatsheet of Freedom, but as you know Bob, I have very little time these days (and CoF required a minimum of watching each movie I reviewed twice).
Fortunately, Garrison Davis, It Could Happen Here correspondent and Patron Saint of Shitty Movies, watched Lady Ballers so I don't have to. You can listen to it here. Trigger warning for transphobia, obviously. On the episode with Garrison are James (who has an extensive background in sports—it's his main thing), Sophie (who loves basketball), and Robert (who, like me, can correctly identify that LeBron James is a basketball player).
This episode had me cry-laughing. Yes the ideology of this movie is a toxic cesspool but also it's bad in every other possible way and dunking on it put a big smile on my face. There are cameos by the worst possible people. In general it's just a really well done bit of media analysis, but there are also a few other interesting points that can be made about it.
1) It pairs well with Julia Serano's thesis that the root of transphobia is misogyny. This is why TERFism inevitably drifts to fascism rather than allying with feminism.
2) There have been, at various points, fascists who are good writers (Yukio Mishima and F.T. Marinetti spring immediately to mind) and a number of conservatives who are. There are even some conservatives who are capable of being funny, though they are mostly in England, not America. There are, however, no fascists capable of being funny.
3) The Daily Wire is doing a fantasy miniseries and you bet your ass I'm going to torrent at least one episode and subject you to my thoughts on it.
I have a lot of restrictions these days on who I can publicly mock, but this shit is fair game so if you like making fun of bad media, check this episode out.
