The Whine thread.

[TPoptarts]

Whine: I frelling hate the "entertainment" industry. Like look what kinda pile of dren casting notices I have to skim through every day!! Like for example here's one I just saw yet another of the whole lot that pissed me off (and I obviously didn't even bother to click that link ):

CASTING: "THE ALIEN BIKINI BABES vs THE LESBIAN COWGIRLS"

[CX]

Sorry, but that just makes me laugh.

[Linda]

Sigh, I hear the acting industry is rather depressed. So if an actor is not too inhibited (and I believe most are not) why not apply for the job and take their money and run? Well, you ARE feeding their lowbrow addiction but for those viewing such a film, their high is fleeting and you have their money. Invest it well and it will last longer than their high. Sorry for the jaded attitude here, but this sort of thing has been around a long, long time. And I am just glad for my relatively lucrative IT job wich took years of training and work to achieve, especially since I no longer have (if I ever did) the sort of body that looks good in a bikini. I have been (and still am) a strong feminist, but gosh, ya gotta live in the real world, right?

Again, sorry for the somewhat negative attitude regarding this.

[evcake]

Sounds like porn flick to me. I didn't know there were casting calls for those...

[Linda]

Yup, that is what it sounds like to me too. I am not sure of the legality of these things - you know, how it stacks up against the old public decency laws or whatever the term for them is today. But if there is a market, someone will be pandering to it and making money off it. I don't like sexploitation or even worse, the infamous 'snuff films' which I am not sure really exist or are only in the urban legend vane. But sex sells. And hey, if it is done without exploitation, as in romantic erotica - like our NC17 stuff, well...okay... Sex should NOT be considered dirty and evil - it is a natural part of life and everybody is interested in it whether they admit it or not. But I agree with T'Poptarts that the title she showed us is a pile of dren - offputting, and kinda laughable as was CX's reaction.

[CX]

Snuff films exist, but most of them are of the pretend variety seeing as it's illegal to make sell or own the real deal, which means that there have been real ones in the past. Actually the pretend ones can get you in trouble in the UK, too.

[TPoptarts]

Sigh, I hear the acting industry is rather depressed. So if an actor is not too inhibited (and I believe most are not) why not apply for the job and take their money and run?

Because any "casting notice" posted on a free website (which is the only thing I can afford to browse) doesn't even pay that much and usually not at all. And like why not... because it's exploiting and humiliating. Like okay if a job pays well and an actor is just interested like in fame and fortune and not actually acting, and they're all brainwashed by the sexist sexual media and are uninhibited, and would like that kinda image (which would most likely cause future typecasting like especially for anyone who isn't well known and that's difficult to get rid of so that's another thing to take into account considering a role) then take the frelling role. I wouldn't. Regardless of whether I "look good in a bikini" or not. Like first of all I don't want the image, I don't wanna be looked at as a "sex symbol" or anything sexual. And it just like totally pisses me off that everything has to do with sex and sex and more frelling sex and like rarely in the intimate emotional form, it's usually stuff promoting like casual sex, objectification and exploitation of people (mainly women), and vulgar obscenity. So why the frell not, because I'm a person not an object. That's why. Well I'll never even do like "tasteful" sexual stuff/nudity but that's just me I guess.

There are some decent casting notices out there (even though 99% of them still call for someone with looks first and talent optional but absolutely unnecessary, well and looks is really not my department ). I just can't afford getting them

I have been (and still am) a strong feminist, but gosh, ya gotta live in the real world, right?

Since when does Hollywood have anything to do with the real world??

[CX]

Something that always make laugh is that Hollywood claims to be, and is somehow seen as this great liberal city and force which supposedly has all these ideals that separate them from the evil conservatives who are just racist and sexist and all manner of bad things, yet Hollywood continues to typecast women as these nymphomatic sex pots, and all the couples in pretty much every movie or TV show are always the same color. Stuff like that just makes me shake my head and laugh at how no matter where you go, there you are.

[TPoptarts]

Yeah. I frelling hate that.

[TPoptarts]

Another whine: it's flying ant season!! Those pesky creatures are frelling EVERYWHERE!!

[TPoptarts]

Yet another whine: I'm in trouble again well I mean like not yet but I probably will be tomorrow morning cuz like 2 guys just showed up and Stripes (the dude who works in the office right now) wanted to put them like in my room which is a female dorm, and like I just asked them if they're sure they have the right room because like a lot of people get confused sometimes and go to the wrong room on the wrong floor and they actually did have the right room, which they weren't supposed to because it's a female dorm and there's like plenty beds in the male and coed dorms and Stripes has been working here for long enough to know that so like then they had to go downstairs ask Stripes again like why he put them in a female dorm etc and they had to go check like several different rooms to see where there's beds (I don't know why though because there's like a card in the office with a list of beds ) and like tomorrow they're probably gonna complain about me to the manager for making them like run around in circles etc because I told them it was a female dorm. Manager doesn't like me telling people it's a female dorm she says it makes the people feel unhappy and unwelcome. And then she threatens to kick me out because I make people unhappy like dude I just frelling asked if they had the right room. Never said like "it's a female dorm frell off" or something like that. I'm in big BIG trouble

[Linda]

Didn't mean to make light of your problems with the acting industry, T'Poptarts. And I sure hope you do not get in trouble about the 'female dorm' incident. I guess this is a good place to blow off steam about these things. Maybe today will be a better day?

[Emberchyld]

Okay... so, ignorining the bikini girls... if every woman turned down a role that was "sexualized" in any way, we wouldn't have had T'Pol or Seven of Nine (and ditto for the guys... seriously, Trip spent a looooot of time shirtless and in his undies. I'm so not complaining). The good thing about these actors (and the writers), though, was that they were able to take that role, look past the in-your-face tight jumpsuit and decon chamber scenes and make the characters so much more.

My whine o' the day... dragged my skates halfway around the world (in checked luggage because, apparently, I could hurt someone with those things), let my coworkers know that one of my goals this visit was to hit one of the local rinks... annnndd.... nothing. Either we'd be stuck at a long dinner or we'd work late or my coworkers would need to borrow my car to get back to their resort hotel (since I stayed so close to the office in a little holiday inn and they didn't... and missed their rides) or tonight, when I got stuck at the office, then got stuck in traffic, then got lost in detour hell... then, with thirty minutes left, parked my car annnnndddd... couldn't find the rink in the main city. I ended up hitting the local supermarket to get some yogurt for dinner and heading back through the detour maze to the hotel. This time, I ignored the GPS and found my way back in half of the time.

Good news? I might have to come back here (though I won't know until sometime during my vacation), so maybe I get to play this game again. *sigh* I have major ice withdrawl and my butt is getting huge from no exercise and toooooooo much fatty French food and chocolate. I've gotta learn to run, like Elessar. Easy exercise to do anywhere.

Oh, and had my hopes dashed about eventually getting a hybrid car. Been driving a Prius all week and something about the system makes me violently motion sick as it keeps switching around. No one else feels it, but I can barely make it to the office every morning.

Annnnddd I have to paaaaackkkk. Don't wanna pack again. Last time, I needed to sit on my bag twice to get it closed (but I impressed myself-- one woman, two + weeks of clothing-- half of which is work clothes, half vacation clothes, figure skates, work instrumentation--all in one small suitcase that I normally use as a carry-on, along with one purse and one carry-on (for my 'pooter and related junk)). This time, I fear the bag.

[Navigator]

Oh, and had my hopes dashed about eventually getting a hybrid car. Been driving a Prius all week and something about the system makes me violently motion sick as it keeps switching around. No one else feels it, but I can barely make it to the office every morning.

One of my friends has one. I picked up on a low frequency hum riding in it; those have been know to disturb some people. It may be that rather than motion. Go try the Honda or even the Escape. Nosy question - do you have really keen hearing - do you feel machinery vibrations that others don't? I don't mean just cars. For example I can hear the spark igniter for our furnace from anywhere in the house and it's a new one. No one else can.

[Linda]

I have fine hair which I keep very long. The individual hairs are so thin that sometimes I can't find them when they annoyingly stick to my face. But no matter how much fat I put on my hips (or take off the hips), that hair never gets any fatter! Guess I should just be glad I still have the hair, despite a couple of spots where the hairs starting to give each other a little more elbow room.