Okay, if I don't get this off my chest first, I'll explode: Ms and Mrs Cast, did you seriously have to make gothic connotations with black hair?! I have black hair and I have been accused of looking emo in the past (not long ago by one of my fellow student teachers, no less, the dumbshit), and not every single person with black hair is goth or emo or even emo-lite! My black hair is my natural hair colour, I am of Southern Italian descent and is common on both sides of my family (my dad has black hair and my mum's older sister did, too, before she dyed it). Although it's another stereotype to add to the list in this story, I take this one personally. Now, if you don't mind, I have to go lay on my bed and stare up at the ceiling in a maudlin manner whilst listening to some Escape The Fate, then go write down some bad poetry to express the feelings I feel deep in my wretched soul :D
Oh God, I just remembered Enoby also had black hair, hence the misspelled named! Great, like I want her to be associated with the Almighty Black-Haired Movement! :D
Actually, that description of Ferret sounds like someone I would have seen in Queen of the Damned with the dramatic goth clothing. The whole Vampyre 'Sociology' scene was so boring anyway, I was daydreaming about Stuart Townsend teaching the class instead :D
And you make some good points about feminism, too. Why is it still treated as a novelty that a society would be matriarchal in a story? I live in a country with one of those lady prime ministers! :D It was made a big deal of at first because Australia had never had a female prime minister, but we got over that pretty quickly. Just as long as you do your job, I don't care who's governing the country, male or female.
And why wouldn't that society's values and beliefs differ at all throughout time? That totally contradicts what Sociology is meant to be about in the first place! :O It's about looking at how societies change and what values and beliefs we have now, and in order to do that we have to look at the past and how we have evolved culturally. Values and beliefs are quite fluid, you know, and not everybody holds the same ones, which makes the matriarchal society in this shitty story stupid. We can't help but change our values and beliefs as time goes by, it HAS to happen for society to evolve! But that would have to mean conflict and require effort on the Casts' part for this story to improve.
Another thing I found ironic: So it's okay for Zoey to mouth off about how slutty Aphrodite is for blowing Erik in the hall, but she only passes judgement about him for a second about his behaviour in the situation and dismisses it quickly because, hey, he's HAWT, so he's forgiven? (I HATE it when people write HAWT, you have no idea!)
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Date: 2011-02-19 01:47 am (UTC)Oh God, I just remembered Enoby also had black hair, hence the misspelled named! Great, like I want her to be associated with the Almighty Black-Haired Movement! :D
Actually, that description of Ferret sounds like someone I would have seen in Queen of the Damned with the dramatic goth clothing. The whole Vampyre 'Sociology' scene was so boring anyway, I was daydreaming about Stuart Townsend teaching the class instead :D
And you make some good points about feminism, too. Why is it still treated as a novelty that a society would be matriarchal in a story? I live in a country with one of those lady prime ministers! :D It was made a big deal of at first because Australia had never had a female prime minister, but we got over that pretty quickly. Just as long as you do your job, I don't care who's governing the country, male or female.
And why wouldn't that society's values and beliefs differ at all throughout time? That totally contradicts what Sociology is meant to be about in the first place! :O It's about looking at how societies change and what values and beliefs we have now, and in order to do that we have to look at the past and how we have evolved culturally. Values and beliefs are quite fluid, you know, and not everybody holds the same ones, which makes the matriarchal society in this shitty story stupid. We can't help but change our values and beliefs as time goes by, it HAS to happen for society to evolve! But that would have to mean conflict and require effort on the Casts' part for this story to improve.
Another thing I found ironic: So it's okay for Zoey to mouth off about how slutty Aphrodite is for blowing Erik in the hall, but she only passes judgement about him for a second about his behaviour in the situation and dismisses it quickly because, hey, he's HAWT, so he's forgiven? (I HATE it when people write HAWT, you have no idea!)