Biblically speaking, human life as we know it began with a warning. Nothing too complicated, just a simple, straight-forward “Don’t eat the fruit.” Easy enough. The Greeks rehash (or technically, predate) this theme; only their translation says “Don’t open the box.” See the difference? Either way, it’s still pretty simple, and I’m sure if I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gender issues’
The Forbidden Fruit tastes…a little irrelevant, actually.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chuck, cultural theory, gender issues, Greek mythology, john crichton, philosophy, religion, Stardust, the Bible, the spiderwick chronicles on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Watership Down
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2666, anansi boys, animal farm, books, children's literature, fairy tales, g. k. chesterton, gender issues, myth, political theory, pride and prejudice and zombies, richard adams, roberto bolano, the private life of the rabbit, watership down on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Finishing a truly great book causes such a contradiction in feeling that I don’t believe there’s anything else quite like it. Sad that it’s over, and happy it’s complete, and filled with the calm of any genuinely mind-bending experience but in a really fidgety way like you just need to talk to everyone about it [...]
Heroes: Reinforcing superhero gender inequalities since 2005
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gender issues, heroes, superheroes, tv on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve complained before that while Heroes seems to go well out of its way to maintain a good racial balance, its gender balance leaves more than a little to be desired. And while this is possibly due to blatant pandering for male viewers, I’m actually more inclined to blame an underlying strain of chauvinism. While seasons [...]
Pregnant Dude? Or just a Weird Chick?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged april fool's day, controversy, gender issues, judith butler, pregnancy on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Watching tv today I saw an intriguing news teaser about the world’s first pregnant man. Since I had literally just finished reading the Google news and had seen nothing about this, I was naturally skeptical and thought that maybe CTV was a couple days late on the April Fools draw. But you can’t just ignore [...]
