Preening and griping.

[pensnest]

Well, I'm feeling very organised today, as I have spent pretty much the whole morning rationalising my Photoshop brushes. Thank goodness it's easy to change file names. I now have them sorted by category so that they actually show up on my screen by category. Pride!

It remains to be seen whether I will *actually* be able to find what I want, but at least I have a chance now.

Meanwhile, I've been slowly re-watching The West Wing from the beginning, and increasingly cross about something I didn't notice first time round. It is this. When Josh was recruited to join the Bartlet campaign, he was working with Hoynes, the respectable front-runner candidate. Sam was negotiating a multi-million dollar deal and about to be promoted within his top-notch law firm. CJ... was fired from her job and fell fully clothed into her swimming pool. When Charlie Young first met the President, he solved a problem. When Ainsley Hayes first met the President, she was bopping about in a bath robe. (How come none of the men sat on the wet paint, hmm?) When Leo embarrassed himself with the intimidating reporter, he made a comment about her shoes. When Sam ditto, he mixed up the names of two beginning-with-K ex-Russian republics. Donna? Her underwear fell out of her trousers.

Hmph.

Comments

[msktrnanny.livejournal.com]

Um, ok. So. Why does that make you cross?

[pensnest]

It's just so belittling, don't you think? In those three directly comparable situations, in each case the woman gets to be humiliated.

[msktrnanny.livejournal.com]

I never looked at it like that [though I will fully admit I did not enjoy the show until the 2nd season], but yes, that's very true. And major networks in this country are good with that sort of thing. lol.

[pensnest]

Yep - and I suspect that the writers never even realised what they were doing, just as peope who're watching (like you and me) don't notice at the time.

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

I did notice that (especially with CJ). It's always much easier to laugh at women being flaky because it makes them cute and manageable and not too much of a threat. So introduce incredibly competent, on-to-it, professional women in a way that emphasises their foibles and approachability.

It's incredibly annoying. And I feel bad for loving CJ for exactly those reasons. But I do. Luckily Sorkin does allow the guys to appear very stupid occasionally (ie: lighting fires in non-functioning fireplaces) and Ainsley gets to initially pound on Sam on TV.

Ah... the first three seasons of West Wing - some of my favourite teevee ever.

[pensnest]

Yes - it's a fascinating show, and very intelligently done, and so well acted that I adore *all* the characters. It was just this thing leaped out at me this time through, the whole different level of embarrassment and humiliation in directly comparable situations.

TWW also leads me to boggle, often as not, at the American political system, but that's another story!

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

I did that name-by-category for my brushes some time ago and for me it's actually worked! I don't have to hunt around forever for a particular set now. The secret to actually get it to work was to not make the categories too inclusive/large. I had to break up the "Texts" brushes into "Texts" and "Lyrics" for example.

[pensnest]

I never realised how many brushes I was going to end up with! But now that I get another bunch every month (from Photoshop Creative), I really had to figure out something. I tried putting the brushes into 'collection' brushes, but those just got too big too fast, and scrolling through the mighty brush list was tiresome. A job well done - I hope!