Day: May 17, 2021

I’ve been tossing the word around in my head for a number of days. It means a representation of a plan or theory in the form of an outline or model or a syllogistic figure according to the Oxford Languages dictionary. I use it to represent this lifeplan that I have not fully come to understand or even form–be it with my partner or independently. I think this is at the route of so many problems in my life. Like everything else, it goes back to the wire…

It is indeed the other way, but while everyone around me feels I have control of that way, I don’t feel that way. I feel like I don’t know what to do and that my life is a series of rooms in which I find myself and while I am in those rooms things exist in one state and when I leave the room things exist in another state and the people in the rooms often don’t connect independent of me.

Could I be Schrödinger’s Cat?

While I am out of the space I believe the poisonous gas is slowly killing everyone in my life or at least infecting them in some fashion where they are being changed by the situation.

I need a schema. I need a good schema. Can I haz schema pleeze?

Some Thoughts:

1. On Wednesday we can talk about the legitimacy of a Knicks playoff run. We can also talk about whether or not D. Jones is for real and the upcoming fantasy season… I still haven’t paid off the last one and that matters… It’s all about responsibility to the schema.

A couple of things happened today…

My kids picked up on a wild rumor that Aaron Rodgers retired. he didn’t. I picked up on a rumor that Brie Larson is being tapped to play a new arc Jedi more powerful than Darth Vader… might be true. Lord I hope not. This isn’t even about the role of female characters in that or any universe. This is about creating retcons that remove the value and purpose of the existing story. Thor was meant to be ‘that guy’ and they built an arc around him that leveled him up beyond all that could and would be–short of Thanos. Then they basically wrote in two characters who could beat Thanos one on one.

Really?

Vader was the child of light and dark–a Jesus-esque character born entirely out of a need to balance the equation. Neo was the same way. Now we are going to say that another Brie Larson vehicle is here to erase the worth of that history? What’s next, is the Matrix 4 going to introduce a female character who is actually ‘the one’?

Pardon the sarcasm, but this needs to stop. We can have strong female characters without tearing down the men who came before them. In fact, having to tear down the men is largely what makes them weak and turns off audiences. I don’t deny the male-centricity in most science fiction and fantasy. I speak and teach of it. I talk about the Ripley character being a scion in a way that Jenette Vasquez didn’t entirely pull off. Ripley wasn’t there as some version of a male fantasy. She was a deeply flawed badass with a survival instinct. What is Captain Marvel? Well, she’s a bot. She makes Vision feel human. She’s no Wonder Woman. So, why don’t we find a way to split the difference and make more bad ass chicks that don’t need to trample a dude to get noticed. Let’s have more Ms. Marvel and less of the Captain.