Harriet Monkhouse hflysator@jarriere.demon.co.uk wrote:
Kathryn wrote:
Like arguing that Deliverance is sexist because a rocket is a phallic symbol. I think one reason why the argument about that was so much at cross-purposes was that one lot were thinking "but it wasn't *intended* to be sexist" and another party was thinking "intent is irrelevant, the only meaning is what I see to be there".
And I think, well, that's one of a number of possible meanings, but not the first one that occurs to me. -- Harriet
I sometimes see Assassain as having 'sexist' overtones - Servalan's remark about simpering Piri being a credit to the female sex (rearranging quote), & there is a remark by Neebrox etc
Jacqui
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Jacqui writes:
I sometimes see Assassin as having 'sexist' overtones - Servalan's remark about simpering Piri being a credit to the female sex (rearranging quote), & there is a remark by Neebrox etc
This might be a case of me seeing what I wanted to see, but I always took Servalan's remark to mean that she knew Piri's true character and admired her tactic of using the men's chivalrous and sexist nature against them. Although now that I think about it, Servalan needn't be a feminist, after all, most historian feel Elizabeth I wasn't either.
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