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

[anansi133]

I wasn't as annoyed as you were, but neither did I like the song all that much. She's deliberately going over top in her hyperbole, but it's more than is really necessary to get the point across. it comes off as bad lyrics with a catchy tune.

For the erotellectual vibe, I much prefer Moxy Fruvous, My baby Loves a Bunch of Authors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9F_XHb81N0&feature=related

[firecat]

My baby Loves a Bunch of Authors

Thanks, I like that a lot!