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9 years ago @ The Toast - Women Enjoying Heteros... · 1 reply · +66 points

Just like a cat!

9 years ago @ The Toast - David Brooks Writes a ... · 0 replies · +9 points

This might just be the best one yet. I was just waxing poetic about these, so I'm glad to see a new one!

9 years ago @ The Toast - "Yet I'll Speak": Othe... · 0 replies · +1 points

Wow this is so good! Thanks for linking to it!

"Macbeth tells how the passionate man destroys the world. In Othello, which on the surface might seem to revolve around passion, we see instead the systematic man destroying himself, and the surrounding universe." Ooooooh.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Femslash Friday: The Fall · 2 replies · +29 points

I mean, wouldn't you?

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +17 points

I agree that it's fascinating too...I suppose I'm conflating my OWN journey towards understanding how effed up it was with the state of the general populace, which is obviously wrong of me. I took a whole class on race in "Jefferson's Virginia" at Jefferson's alma mater and the discussion about Sally Hemings was HEATED. There entire seminar was white kids who had never really apparently thought about problematic founding fathers before? I mostly stayed quiet and watched...I was still just a baby feminist at the time or I probably wouldn't have. It ended up with our professor being the only person willing to even SUGGEST that Jefferson was in the wrong, even about his flip-flopping on emancipation. It was...eye opening.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +7 points

That is a really good and really depressing point...thank you?

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 2 replies · +44 points

I've been wondering about that Sally Hemings book too. Is it perhaps reactionary? Now that a certain segment of the population is vocal about the fact that that "relationship" cannot have been consensual, the part of the population that's uncomfortable with that truth is trying desperately to make it "ok" again?

Honestly, I am also baffled.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +15 points

Counterpoint: ducks are awesome, why bother with other birds?

I kid, but recently ducks have made up a huge portion of my birding activities so I sort of feel like Shrug to both sides of that debate as long as people buy duck stamps.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Outfitting for Adventu... · 0 replies · +8 points

I like teal but I would LOVE a pair of outdoor sports shoes in a different color someday...

9 years ago @ The Toast - Dirtbag Jason and the ... · 1 reply · +7 points

YES. Though I've also recently re-read The Oresteia, and it sounds very much like Aeschylus was on Team Agamenmon. I was specifically looking for the possibility that he wasn't really condemning Clytemnestra and I really didn't see that. Euripides does defend her, a bit, in Electra...but I think it's debatable how much Euripides' views reflect the general culture of the time. He is, after all, the one who gave us an infanticidal Medea who gets away with it. (For the record, although I was a Classics major, I have a woefully thin myth/lit background so I might be wrong)

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