#different ideas

It's the fact that male F1 fans can have whatever shit take they want but when it's females we don't know the sport like the men do.

It's the fact that I saw a twitter post where a woman was talking about 'drafting' - actual motorsports/engineering concept - but some man decided to waltz into the conversation and condescendingly decides that this woman was in fact talking about 'drifting' - no she wasn't. Even when we know more stuff the men can't quite believe it and would much prefer to impose their views on us like as if we aren't capable of thinking about concepts and ideas, like as if we aren't aware of the terminology/concepts the men are aware of. That man on twitter DECIDED he didn't suggest that perhaps she might have been talking about 'drifting' he decided she was talking about 'drifting' - men have always done that, put words in our mouth, made decisions about what we're saying or doing. It has got to stop.

We have brains that would like to be cultivated and maybe one day I watched an F1 race and decided I wanted to know more about the regulations of this sport and maybe I wanted to know more about the engineering aspects of this sport.

Also for the people who say 'I'm not offended' or 'I don't get why you're offended'. That's fine, but I am offended. You don't get to judge other people for what offends them and you don't get to tell them to stop being offended.

Women have always been seen as inferior in every facet of life, very recently has there been movements to stop this damaging trajectory of female inferiority and it's a shame that on the day Jamie Chadwick stayed in the W series because there is no opportunity for her to move up to F3 or F2, Christian Horner decided to talk about how women are only here because of the pretty men. The parallels are truly damning. Jamie is here because she was inspired like some other young woman right now is being inspired, not because of the pretty men, but because of the roaring of the engines, or because of the way the racecar so effortlessly glides across the track, achieving speeds that did not seem possible many years ago.

Christian doesn't get to take this away from us by saying that we or the other little girls being inspired in their homes are only here because of the men. We are our own people, the men of this sport don't dictate our feelings, our love for this sport.

He doesn't get to take away the actual reason we're here, I'm here because I was bored and started to watch a race. The race was already underway so I didn't even know what any of them looked like, all I knew was that I loved the pitstops and the way the engines sounded. Someone on reddit said it was because their father used to watch it and they watched it with there father when they were just a young child, that child wasn't attracted to the men, that child was attracted to the sport.

(Doesn’t have to be for just SaSi; could be for any fandom you like)

Those fucking people aren't that important.

And indeed, although the Guardian reviewer Peter Bradshaw https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/sep/04/joker-folie-a-deux-review-joaquin-phoenix-and-lady-gaga-musical-spirals-out-of-tune

actually liked it better than did Maher of the Times, the Guardian and other publications are now publishing a slew of articles, as to how this movie is losing money hand over fist ($200k at the box office), and their only hope is to recoup it on streaming!

Well: I suppose that's really ALL that counts, in Hollywood! 😏

As one or two have commented, I really don't see how they can have spent so much on a movie, without action scenes or special effects.

But the Guardian Hollywood writer seems to think it bombed, largely because it rubbed comic book fans, "an important sector of the market", "up the wrong way"..

And this Guardian writer Andrew Pulver reckons it "scolds the audience". Though I don't see how. With a musical? 🙄 With a musical, you can only ANNOY the audience, by making it flat and unentertaining. (If however you make it entertaining, you get the audience on your side. 🙂) And this is obviously no Little Shop Of Horrors…

Well.. You see, I believe the FIRST Phillips movie did rub fans of the characters up the wrong way too, to an extent! 😏 Not everybody liked it. If you look back in time to various contemporary YouTube parodies of movie 1, you can see that a lot of them parody the Phoenix Joker as weak! One I saw even had him falling from top to bottom of those concrete steps! (Though of course he didn't, in the movie!)

Well - again, this Lokean believes this negative box-office result vindicates her theories! And proves that I have the answer! 🙂

People don't WANT an incompetent, clumsy, sad-sack antihero. They want an old-time "rags to riches" story! I BELIEVE! (Even if it has certain ironic touches.)

I also think that a story told by a bourgeois director in which he is basically saying that a working-class rebel of whichever stamp, needs must fail, is ALSO not these days going to be popular. 😏

Yes. Pulver commented: "The core audience [which is WHO, one wonders, according to Pulver? JUST the comic book fans? But for a Hollywood movie to succeed, it has to appeal to more than just fans of the novel or comic book!] received the message that not only is the film very different from the first film, but also that people liked the first Joker for the wrong reasons."

And COULD a LOT of them have liked it, not for conventional superhero movie fan reasons (after all, that was precisely what Joker wasn't) but because they saw the first film as a rare example of "the underdog getting some of his own back", genre? 😄😄

Michael Moore had his finger on the pulse of why the first movie succeeded. (Michael Moore usually does! 🙂)

"Except in this story a discomfiting question is posed: What if one day the dispossessed decide to fight back?"

But Loki and His Own, we'd like to take that a little further, you see! Oh yes! 😄

The public - comics fans included, I do believe - would have far preferred a story in which Arthur Fleck the "Joker", however mentally disturbed he is or isn't, developed into a HERO! In which he grew into a much stronger character. Aided and drawn onwards and upwards, one would think, by his love for the character Harley Quinn. And hers for him. Pity, then, that in this, she is a duplicitous COW, who goes by the dull soubriquet "Lee", not "Harley". 😏

One supposes though that SOME diehard comic bookers would want Phoenix's Joker to develop either into the evil genocidal villain he is in some of the modern comics 🤮, or into the even more recognisable Gotham-destroying terrorist of Nolan's The Dark Knight 🙄.

This just proves, however, that such people are stupid! 😄 And I know that no Neopagan would go in for such obvious Christian right-wing ideological fantasies, which we see right through!

We have something better! (And something we might even be able to sell to the male incel comic bookers, because it is FAR from wimpy! And it offers the underdog a bit of HOPE.)

I DO believe, that a writer such as myself, could and would manage to sell to the public who are tired of wimpy Jokers, and "failure stories", and all such dull negativity, a fantasy that I have already outlined in my previous essay above, and that is far more folksy, and far more Pagan both. ☺️

That would be the rags-to-riches tale of a Trickster Hero! 👍

THAT the public would now buy and lap up, I'll stake my best idol of Loki on it! 🙂😄👍

P.S. Very recent events - much more recent than my writing any of these reviews/musings - have I think proved, that vast numbers of the US public are perfectly prepared to support rebels against the status quo - in real life! Even if in real life, ¨the system¨ turns those rebels into martyrs. What is important to the public, is that they achieve something, however symbolic. Violently symbolic. A bit of ¨own-backery¨, as one might say! 😏

I´m not sure that that was precisely what I was talking about in my essays - but I think we can all see, the way that the public mood is going, and that ¨conventional¨ ideas on the part of directors - like wasn´t Phillips trying to quote some Scorsesean/Roman Catholic bit of ¨moralism¨, at the end of Folie A Deux, according to what I read on Wikipedia - just don´t cut the mustard any more.

People want ¨the terrorist" to win. As long as he is the right kind of terrorist! 😏

As for Tricksters - well - this Lokean will let you all into something! 😄😄😄 The great thing about them, is that they tend to get away with it! 😄 In the long run, they do! (Yeah: so Christians said Loki didn´t. But Christians lie: and they have the wrong cosmological outlook anyway!)

P.P.S. Those interested in Trickster Heroes will also need to read my forthcoming reviews/essays/musings on the sorely much-unadapted (as yet) science fiction writer Julian May, her Saga of the Exiles, and her fabulous Trickster, Aiken Drum! ☺️