New awesome words

[sasha_feather]

Two words that should clearly enter common usage:

1. Textravert (n) (coined by badgerbag): a person (like me) who is more inclined to extraversion in textual format.

2. Dollhouse (v) (coined by takumashii:

To make excuses for the failings of a serial entertainment in the hope that those failings are going to be undercut any moment now, because they're just too stupid to continue as presented.

Usage example:

"I thought the last episode of Glee was kind of bad, but I'm Dollhousing it for at least a couple more episodes."

ION I am still extremely tired, and I promise to call the doctor tomorrow.

Comments

[handyhunter.livejournal.com]

Heh. That is exactly how I feel about Glee and Dollhouse.

[sasha-feather.livejournal.com]

I have not been watching either show but have been following the discussions in fandom... which make them sound pretty awful.

[handyhunter.livejournal.com]

They are definitely problematic. I don't find Dollhouse all that watchable, though I tuned in last week for Alexis Denisof (and I have no idea what he said or what role he played, because I was distracted by his (real) accent and was busy mentally casting him as Mitchell Hundred (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_(comics))).

And Glee is very up and down for me; I like the musical numbers and when the non-white/straight/able bodied kids in Glee get a chance to do something, I like their characters too, but the show overall is not smart or subversive enough with its "ironic" characters or satire, so it often ends up being offensive or perpetuating stereotypes that (I think?) it's trying to address.

[sasha-feather.livejournal.com]

It's so funny, because I do not have TV at all, have not been watching TV, but I sort of feel like I have, because I've been reading these commentaries! What you say about Glee is what I've heard from others too, were_duck and raanve I think.

[handyhunter.livejournal.com]

It's a little bit interesting to me, all the commentary about Glee -- not that it's a bad thing at all. The opposite in fact, but I tend to think Glee isn't that much worse than most other shows out there with its portrayal of minority characters and yet people are talking about it. I don't know if it's due to Glee's theatrical tone, so the characters are a little more exaggerated/extreme, or racefail or what. But people are talking about it.