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pre_raphaelite1 (pre_raphaelite1) wrote,
@ 2009-06-13 17:21:00

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stupid quotes

Slay me with your Sword of Truth. Please?
I am in the midst of end of the quarter grading and have paused to share some gems with you. These span a couple of assignments but basically this class is about semiotics, analysis, and interpretation of fairy tales.

The Gentlemen are known as monsters because they kill people and take the hearts; this is one of the taboos that the society has acknowledged that is inhumane. Therefore, anyone who kills and takes the heart from another person is considered a monster.
There go my weekend plans.

In the end [Sora] fights the bad guy and he saves his child hood sweat heart.
Ewwww!

[The Heartless] are a good group of villains which everyone will admire.
Oh yes. Let us all hold great admire the bad guys.

The key blade takes the shape of a very large key in the likeliness of a blade which is used to bash enemy's heads in.
The key blade is a key which is likely a blade for bashing? WTF?

The fears the gentlemen evoke are their monstrous grins and their ability to float shows that they are up to no good.
Oh such fail...

Also the gentlemen are the abject kind of guys.
I wonder what Kristeva would say about this phrasing?

The Gentlemen obviously evoke man insecurities.
I have man insecurities. Should I see a therapist?

In class, Buffy dreams of a little girl with a chest box.
Sadly this is not nearly as interesting as it seems, though if there were a chest box I bet it would have a combination lock in the nipples.

As for the way to defeat the evil, the use of fairy tales in this episode [of Buffy] would illustrate the perception, of the man being the ultimate hero in the entire story. No matter what the trouble is, it would always be the male figure who would perform the task to save a person or city.
Clearly this person has never watched Buffy- including the episode assigned.

The fairy tale gender that is used in this show is the horror gender.
Yeah, I wish they meant genre here, but no... it was a paragraph about gender.

This fairy tale is more of a lesson story.
And my fics are more of porn tales.

The Gentlemen evoke a fear which has been instilled in every child with no exceptions. The fear of you skin and bones aunt or grandparent. The one that pinches your cheeks way to hard while you sit there wondering how can they possibly have the muscle to pinch with such unbelievable force.
Wow. That's some serious childhood trauma this student has.

Red Riding hood goes to the grandma with a basket of fruits because grandma is a good patriarch.
Oh there are so many places I could go with this... not the least of all wondering how many fruits you can get into one basket and still carry it?

They were practically joined at the him.
As thegildedmagpie says, this is called docking.

Fairy tales allow a child to learn to cope with their unconscious problem.
Any guesses what this unconscious problem is? Bedwetting maybe?

Men like breast because it is one of the most important features a woman can have. This is because women who have bigger breast can provide more sources for their children, such as milk.
The other breast provides orange juice and cash.

[Wearing a Mickey Mouse necklace] can relate to my miniature size breast because it reveals that I am not full grown. If I am I would probably wear a more sophisticated jewelry like a pearl necklace.
1) TMI.
2) er... TMI but LOL?

More later, I'm sure.

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kabal42
2009-06-13 08:00 pm UTC (link)

I'm in the middle of revising and here after a long day of reading about stuff like why Mick Jagger is both a dubious sexual figure and a performance persona that reiterates hegemonic masculinity, or the Pet Shop Boys' hidden language of the othered, this is really the kind of laugh I need. Thank you. I was feeling so sick of myself from just sitting here all day that a laugh was a true healing experience.

Also, I will now at long length ponder the truth of the Gentlemen being abject. Because that's the kind of mind I have. But I do wonder the same you do. (And I think I'd fail the student who took Buffy to be proof of male superiority. They've clearly missed the point completely.) I'd really, really like to know what a horror gender is, too *G*

I'd better go to bed before I implode my brain somehow.

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pre_raphaelite1
2009-06-13 08:09 pm UTC (link)

Aww, god I've had those days of brain meltiness from overuse. The reading sounds fabulous but too much of it without a break? Yes. That will kill anyone.

I think the Gentleman are abject, in the same way zombies are, though the former are a bit more uncanny, I think, as they walk a slightly narrower line. Of course, I asked my students what fear the Gentlemen evoke/relied upon and not one of them was able to see the medical connection, which was appalling to me. The best anyone came up with was a fear of being silenced by the government, which I get from the whole black suit thing, but still. Most of them just talked about the fear of losing your voice and ability to communicate. *bashes them all*

*nudges to bed* Go on. Have happy dreams that resist hegemony!

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kabal42
2009-06-14 04:32 am UTC (link)

The reading is pretty awesome :-) My exam is on the masculinities of Freddie Mercury (and really, it's about queer masculinities) in music videos. The mentioned essays are from "Sexing the Groove" edited by Sheila Whiteley, in case you wondered.

They clearly are, I agree. I wonder why I never attached that term to them before. I'd say that they definitely do play on the medical fear. Perhaps even more so if you're from a day and age where all doctors wore dark suits and were overly formal... But I'd say the loss of voice is a deep fear, too. The "scream that no-one hears" is clearly primal. It's the stuff of children's nightmares. Also, in my field we do pay some attention to voice as identity marker, which means it's taken something vitally "you" from you. To be robbed of your voice is both literally and metaphorically a horror. Of course, metaphorically it's also strong, but I think that in this case, the literal lack of ability to scream is worse.

(I agree with mindabbles that McGonagall is a suitable icon for this.)

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	mindabbles 2009-06-13 11:11 pm UTC (link)
	I think I know some people who are horrorgendered. Also, I would say that having to present a patriarchal grandma with fruits qualifies as a childhood problem. Is grandma fairytalegendered? Err, people with large breasts wear pearls? Your student quotes always make me want to use the Minerva icon. (Reply to this)

	snapelike 2009-06-14 01:53 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I so look forward to the shitload of essays I have to correct this week. I bet there are one or two lines able to compete with the sheer stupidity of the above. "Sadly this is not nearly as interesting as it seems, though if there were a chest box I bet it would have a combination lock in the nipples." Noooo! That is where Potter keeps his chest monster! Urgh! (Reply to this)