Sex, gender, robots?

[rymenhild]

A comment in today's metafandom links to a great post about perceived gender and the absence of biological sex for the robots of Wall-E. That post in turn links to a blog post by gender theorist Kate Bornstein. I highly recommend both the LJ post and the Kate Bornstein article that spawned it, even though I find myself imagining one commenter (who is outraged, just outraged, that "in an innocent children's movie, homosexuality has to be brought up") as Sam the Eagle.

EDIT:

I looked at that Sam the Eagle Youtube site just now. Then I looked at it again. Then I looked at the links from that page to Youtube pages belonging to Beaker, Gonzo, the Swedish Chef and Statler and Waldorf. Then I went googling to see if anyone could confirm my suspicions. Friends, I believe that the Muppet Show is alive, well and officially living on the Internet. I LOVE THIS CENTURY.

Comments

[newredshoes]

Those links are freaking awesome! Definitely a good way to round out my work day of much less interesting fare. :)

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Nothing improves a workday like genderqueer robots and Muppets singing Carmen.

[fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com]

Friends, I believe that the Muppet Show is alive, well and officially living on the Internet.

It is indeed. I am hoping for another movie as a result, but hey, I'll take what I can get.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Am I the last person to notice?

(And if a new movie comes out, I am totally there.)

[fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I only found it out last week.

(From Wiki, and it does have citation, at leaast, After the consensus was reached that The Muppets' Wizard of Oz failed to deliver critically, the question hung in the air if whether or not another Muppet film would be made.[citation needed] A new film has been confirmed by Jason Segel and Nick Stoller, who both plan to produce the next Muppet film.[8] They have also stated that they will both write the next picture, but only Stoller will direct.[8]

On March 31, 2008, First Showing revealed details about the new Muppet film.[9] Coming Soon reported similar news.[10] After an interview with Jason Segel, First announced, "it's going to be incredibly old-fashioned, with the familiar Muppet characters putting on a show to save an old theater. The danger? An evil character wants to tear the place down to get at the oil underneath."[9] Segel stated that he was the most enthusiastic about the project, also stating, "I just remember being 10 years old and for me Kermit was Tom Hanks. Kermit is like the original Everyman and I remember watching the old Muppets with my parents and seeing Peter Sellers and people like that on. I've always had Muppet pictures and figurines all through my house. Now that I'm getting to write it, I feel like all of my dreams are coming true."[10])

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know there was a Muppet Wizard of Oz. :(

[fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com]

You didn't miss much.

(It was on ABC. I still have not seen all of it, though I saw a few clips. Here's the summary, if you want it.)

I come bearing links!

[fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com]

I was going to make a Fozzie joke, about "bearing", but I'm not that creative at the moment.

These are some of the links I visited when last week I was looking up Muppet things. (Because dammit, I want my muppets back.)

http://www.muppetnewsflash.com/ - Good for news. Right now, it's announcing the Muppet special "STUDIO DC! ALMOST LIVE" which will air August 3, 2008 at 8:00pm ET/PT. Dude. That could've used more publicity.

And then the Tough Pigs blog is always fun.

[angharad_gov.livejournal.com]

Friends, I believe that the Muppet Show is alive, well and officially living on the Internet.

those are amazing!

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I love the Internet.

(Boom de ya da.)

[angharad_gov.livejournal.com]

hee-hee :). i heard about that commercial, but had never managed to catch it. neato! :)

[reconditarmonia.livejournal.com]

Boom.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

That's where I found out about the Discovery Channel ad in the first place. :)

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

That's so interesting! Thanks for posting the links.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

woot! Must check out all the links.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

You most certainly must.

[redrose3125.livejournal.com]

They're releasing the Muppet Show, season by season, on DVD.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I know! I have the first season, but since I've finished watching it I think it's time to get the second one.

[flintknappy.livejournal.com]

Ooh, season two could be fun as well. :)

[cronquist.livejournal.com]

I "heart" your SuperGrover icon. And I don't usually "heart" things.

There's probably a way for me to make a cutesy heart in my reply, but I refuse to learn how.

[sovay]

Okay; that makes me happy.