In which firecat is cranky about a harmless fun vid

[firecat]

I get the impression I'm the only person who is a little annoyed by the fuss over Rachel Bloom's video "Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury" (NSFW) (which was recently nominated for a Hugo).

in an interview in Wired, Rachel Bloom says: "The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence."

Well, god/dess(es) know I feel the same way! And I've committed plenty of fiction about it.

And there are many messages in the video that I approve of: Women making sexual choices. Women making sexual choices based on things other than what the sociobiologists think they make sexual choices based on. Women publicly celebrating their sexuality. Public celebration of fandom, reading, genre writing, and intelligence.

But the video is full of conventional sex cliches, and I think it also sends the message "Some women are attracted to intelligent men, and what women have to offer said men are boobies and blow jobs." And that message feels limiting.


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Comments

[shanaqui]

I think I agree with your nitpicks! Unfortunately, that song is now stuck in my head. (I wasn't aware of the song before this post.)

I guess "fuck me, Ursula Le Guin" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

[firecat]

It's got a very catchy tune, all right.

My vid would be titled something like "[insert awesome writer here], let's sit around discussing philosophy and fiction for many hours, and also kiss a lot."

[shanaqui]

Ahaha, if I were to make it, it would probably be '[insert awesome writer here], I am monogamous and anyway I'm asexual, but can we hold hands for a bit while we talk about a wide range of awesome things?'

[firecat]

That would totally work too.