Starbuck meets Rush Limbaugh?

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Vulture.com has an article that pits Twin Peaks against BSG for the title of "The Greatest TV Drama of the Past 25 Years"....and somehow BSG comes out the loser. But they have some nice things to say about the ladies on the show, and this Starbuck v. Rush line is pretty fantastic:

Among Battlestar Galactica’s stronger players are its actresses, blessed with some of the meatiest roles ever written for women on TV. BSG’s gender politics are euphorically advanced, with Starbuck, Six, President Roslin, and Boomer, not to mention every other female pilot, mechanic, Cylon, and civilian, so fundamentally equal to the men around them that gender parity isn’t something they even have to talk about. (Meanwhile on Twin Peaks, all the non-crazy fully grown women spend their time in abusive love triangles.) At a time when it is, somehow, still acceptable to call a woman a slut for taking birth control, one wishes more than ever that Starbuck were a real person, so she could swagger into Rush Limbaugh’s office and ask him if he would like to try and put something, anything, between her knees. (It would be icing on the fantasy to imagine President Roslin following her in, doing that thing where she smiles out of fury, and then eviscerating him without ever raising her voice.)

Comments

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

OMG THAT IS FANTASTIC. *shares fantasy*

Thank you for finding this gem!

LOLOLOL!

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

I love that fanfic!

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

This is awesome! I would love to see Kara and Rosling walk into Rush's office. Thanks for finding this.

[rachelmack.livejournal.com]

THIS IS AMAZING ZOMG