"Remind me again why Damien puts up with such treatment? Does he have no other friends?"
Yes, really. According to Stevie Rae, pretty much everyone else in the school is either a ridiculous bigot or an even more swishy gay stereotype.
"I'm not a snake expert, but funnily enough, snakes have long been a phallic symbol as well as a feminine symbol. As a matter of fact, snakes have often been used as symbols of duality and ambiguity, kind of like the yin-yang.
According to "The Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in Art" by Hope B. Werness, "snake symbolism is laced with ambiguity - life/death, male/female, progenitor/monster" (377). So, to say that snakes are solely a symbol of female power or male power is overly simplistic at best and utterly wrong at worst."
Yeah, I do recall the phallic symbolism. I figured there was more to it than that. ^^;
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Date: 2011-04-27 03:40 pm (UTC)Yes, really. According to Stevie Rae, pretty much everyone else in the school is either a ridiculous bigot or an even more swishy gay stereotype.
"I'm not a snake expert, but funnily enough, snakes have long been a phallic symbol as well as a feminine symbol. As a matter of fact, snakes have often been used as symbols of duality and ambiguity, kind of like the yin-yang.
According to "The Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in Art" by Hope B. Werness, "snake symbolism is laced with ambiguity - life/death, male/female, progenitor/monster" (377). So, to say that snakes are solely a symbol of female power or male power is overly simplistic at best and utterly wrong at worst."
Yeah, I do recall the phallic symbolism. I figured there was more to it than that. ^^;