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misscamThis week has madly busy real life wise, and so will most of next one be too. Um, yay?
But this coming week is Eurosong week, my friends. That's right. Two nights of semi-finals, one Saturday of finals. WTF costumes! Hideous songs! European voting shenanigans! Snark! Mockery! Wind machine! And it is all happening here, in little Norway.
I will of course be covering a lot of this traditional European bonding session through bad music, as usual. Are you ready for Eurosong?
This past week meanwhile, Norway has managed to have a transgender debate in the media. It all started with a NRK documentary about transgendered people called "Jentene på Toten" ('The girls at Toten'). It followed 12 different people, including one biological male who has now chosen the name Lise Lindalen and (I assume, given it's a female name) wish to be identified as female. I shall thus use the female pronoun on her.
After the documentary, a former high profile politican called Carl I. Hagen launched a scathing attack on Lise. Because Lise used to be married to his daughter, and didn't come forward as transgendered until the wife was pregnant with the fourth child. They're now divorced and having a custody issues about the children. Carl I. Hagen was rather pissed at the documentary for creating what he deemed "pity" for transgendered people, and accused transgendered people of causing more problem with their own behaviour than discrimination does. And referred to Lise as "he" throughout the whole thing.
Now, Lise might be an ass as a person, that I can't say as I don't know her. But Hagen can seriously bite me with his way of using the actions of one individual to paint a whole group. Then again, hardly the first time he's done that. Yeah, I'm not a fan of his Progress Party, does it show?
The whole thing lead to a debate in Norway, of course. It is good in one way, as it increases visibility. People fear the unknown. Once you get more exposure to something unfamiliar, it loses a lot of the fear factor.
In this week's TV stuff:
- Watched FlashForward's first part of the finale. Am reserving judgement until next week for how it turns out, but seriously, Mark? BE LESS DUMB. Seriously, Olivia? SHAG THE HOT BRITISH PHYSICIST ALREADY. Seriously, Demetri and Janis? ADMIT YOUR PLATONIC LOVE FOR EACH OTHER AND RAISE THAT BABY AS BFFS. Ahem.
- Have not watched Doctor Who because it is a two-parter and I'm not having more cliffhangers in my life. Evil things. I shall watch both parts next week.
- Watched Americans-with-Norwegian-ancestry try to ski on Svalbard in the reality show "Alt for Norge" and laughed like a loon. But it is kinda charming how much love they have for Norway, despite never having been before. It does make me want to write "Cam's Guide to Sucessful Relocation to Norway (With Special Notes for Americans)", though.
- Watched the season finale of CSI. I miss my old CSI. I like Ray's character, but man, I miss the old team dynamic a lot. I think I'd enjoy the show more if it was all new people, and not some of the old to remind me of classic CSI.
- Okay, I like the British Strictly Come Dancing, but not so much the host. I feel like I'm probably commiting some sort of UK no-no by admitting so, because he's probably some big beloved dude, right?
- BBC's list of bizarre endings for TV shows is a hoot. Kidnapped by aliens? It was all a snowglobe? Ahahaha.
And how are you all?
But this coming week is Eurosong week, my friends. That's right. Two nights of semi-finals, one Saturday of finals. WTF costumes! Hideous songs! European voting shenanigans! Snark! Mockery! Wind machine! And it is all happening here, in little Norway.
I will of course be covering a lot of this traditional European bonding session through bad music, as usual. Are you ready for Eurosong?
This past week meanwhile, Norway has managed to have a transgender debate in the media. It all started with a NRK documentary about transgendered people called "Jentene på Toten" ('The girls at Toten'). It followed 12 different people, including one biological male who has now chosen the name Lise Lindalen and (I assume, given it's a female name) wish to be identified as female. I shall thus use the female pronoun on her.
After the documentary, a former high profile politican called Carl I. Hagen launched a scathing attack on Lise. Because Lise used to be married to his daughter, and didn't come forward as transgendered until the wife was pregnant with the fourth child. They're now divorced and having a custody issues about the children. Carl I. Hagen was rather pissed at the documentary for creating what he deemed "pity" for transgendered people, and accused transgendered people of causing more problem with their own behaviour than discrimination does. And referred to Lise as "he" throughout the whole thing.
Now, Lise might be an ass as a person, that I can't say as I don't know her. But Hagen can seriously bite me with his way of using the actions of one individual to paint a whole group. Then again, hardly the first time he's done that. Yeah, I'm not a fan of his Progress Party, does it show?
The whole thing lead to a debate in Norway, of course. It is good in one way, as it increases visibility. People fear the unknown. Once you get more exposure to something unfamiliar, it loses a lot of the fear factor.
In this week's TV stuff:
- Watched FlashForward's first part of the finale. Am reserving judgement until next week for how it turns out, but seriously, Mark? BE LESS DUMB. Seriously, Olivia? SHAG THE HOT BRITISH PHYSICIST ALREADY. Seriously, Demetri and Janis? ADMIT YOUR PLATONIC LOVE FOR EACH OTHER AND RAISE THAT BABY AS BFFS. Ahem.
- Have not watched Doctor Who because it is a two-parter and I'm not having more cliffhangers in my life. Evil things. I shall watch both parts next week.
- Watched Americans-with-Norwegian-ancestry try to ski on Svalbard in the reality show "Alt for Norge" and laughed like a loon. But it is kinda charming how much love they have for Norway, despite never having been before. It does make me want to write "Cam's Guide to Sucessful Relocation to Norway (With Special Notes for Americans)", though.
- Watched the season finale of CSI. I miss my old CSI. I like Ray's character, but man, I miss the old team dynamic a lot. I think I'd enjoy the show more if it was all new people, and not some of the old to remind me of classic CSI.
- Okay, I like the British Strictly Come Dancing, but not so much the host. I feel like I'm probably commiting some sort of UK no-no by admitting so, because he's probably some big beloved dude, right?
- BBC's list of bizarre endings for TV shows is a hoot. Kidnapped by aliens? It was all a snowglobe? Ahahaha.
And how are you all?
