Jan, 22, 2009 - Carter and such

It's not Oprah Winfry...but it is still personal.

This is a hard line to walk I think...one I've most likely crossed more than once, I'm not sure I ever went back.
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"It's about 'What it means to be human, a parable, something that corresponds to the real...distorts it so that we can see it, enlarges it so that we have to look at it. Mr. Lyon is any young man coming of age and facing his manhood in or out of a relationship, what it means to be a man; a young woman facing what it means to be a young woman in a relationship with a man.'" ~ Paraphrased from Laura Mandell.

I was speaking with Howe the other day (did I write about the following already?). I wanted to know why his class was only a 100 level course despite the hefty reading, more than even my 200/300 level IMS/ENG/WMS course or my 200 level Short Story course.

His answer?

"There are people above me who consider Scifi to be 'fluff.''

And yet one of the core parts of most SciFi, which we discussed in said class and I've found true throughout my life, is the very same question, 'What's it mean to be human?"
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"I'm intensely afraid of the potential of violence in men...and I think they are too." ~ Paraphrased from Laura Mandell.

I agree. I have a friend who studies Jujitsu, which is a grappling form of martial arts, which means in a fight his goal is to literally break your limbs so that you can't fight anymore. He considers this incredibly interesting...and frightening. He once dislocated a partner's shoulder. It wasn't really his fault, he merely held the arm bar while the other person did the exact wrong thing and then *pop* goes the arm. To this day it bothers him...it was nearly 10 years ago.
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"The Bloody Chamber"

"Blue Beard" - Based on a real pirate?

The female potential for "corruption..." would such corruption happen without a male's violence to corrupt them? What is the female parallel? Is there one?

Does it work in reverse?

There is no anger like that which springs in a man from the frustrations of a woman...

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned," William Congreve, The Mourning Bride.

Why does that only count for women? I call shenanigans.