Media Consumption 09/22/2023

[itsnotmymind]

 I'm still rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer - just finished Listening to Fear. It's strange to rewatch these episodes and realize I was Buffy's age when I first watched them, and that was so long ago.

Also, you know, if Riley was female and Buffy was male Riley would be getting all these lectures about how men are Like That, and you have just have to accept that they won't express their feelings the way you want them to.

I'm reading And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails, by Wayne Curtis. I picked it off the library shelf because it looked like it would be reasonably light, and it has met expectations. I think any history book is going to have to go to dark places, because history is pretty fucking dark, but this one is reasonably light and that's what I was in the mood for.

Also the fourteenth volume of Fullmetal Alchemist. I'm taking my time going through this manga.

On my podcast You're Wrong About I listened to the episode on the Iran-Contra scandal. A scandal that doesn't get remembered nearly as much as it should.

Comments

[elisi]

Also, you know, if Riley was female and Buffy was male Riley would be getting all these lectures about how men are Like That, and you have just have to accept that they won't express their feelings the way you want them to.
So much. I once wrote about post about how Riley is a metaphor for [white] male privilege, and I still feel that is essentially correct.

[itsnotmymind]

Yeah, I can see that